Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay?

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mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
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> My old NAS was 2011 vintage and ran for 12 years continuously, never 
> off, A Buffalo with 2x Maxtor 2TB 3.5in PATA drives.

I never knew they made them that big, the 4TB drives I removed were
SATA.

> What made me switch 
> off was the noise of 2 drives running when everything else had been 
> upgraded to SSD, the electricity usage and the fact the 600MHz ARM CPU 
> could only manage 24MB/s over the 1Gbps network.

I don't really have a need for a home NAS. Big files (videos and
backups) go onto USB drives which I connect as required. A few GBs
on an SD card in a single-board-computer suffices for everything
else with cheaper hardware and less power wasted.

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  Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-03-21 17:54 +0000
  Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-03-22 09:40 +1000
    Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2025-03-22 14:15 +0000
      Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-03-23 07:34 +1000
        Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2025-03-23 06:41 +0000
          Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-03-23 14:36 +0000
            Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay? mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2025-03-23 15:19 +0000

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