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Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS?

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On 1/3/26 01:04, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> A month ago I decided that I needed to replace the hardware under my
> Linux Server/Workstation. As I was gaming out the migration, I realized
> that the hard drives were 10-15 years old, and SMART declared them to
> be "Pre-Fail - Old Age", so I bought a couple of new 2TB Seagate
> Barracuda drives to fit in two of the 3 HDD slots in the "new" 5 year
> old chassis, leaving the last one for future expansion. The system disk
> is a 500GB SDD drive.
> 
> That leaves me with a handful of 1TB drives from this system and 2
> Windows boxes that were 10-15 years old and whose CPUs were too
> old for Windows-11. My thought is that I ought to make a NAS with
> mirrored drives out of them. Even if they are nearing end-of-life, they
> should work OK in a RAID-1 confuguration.
> 
> 1) Is that a reasonable thought?
> 

That depends on electricity costs, but my old PCs run at idle > 40 
watts, it just isn't cost-effective to use them as an always on device 
when a Pi idles at 2 watts. This assumes UK electricity prices, or similar.

I do put old HDDs in an old PC and use it for backup + archive stuff. It 
is only on for very short periods, so electricity cost doesn't matter. I 
just use standard Ubuntu. For NAS I use a rPi4 with SSD + 2.5" hdd, but 
I don't need a huge amount of storage.

If I were doing it today, I would get a rPi5 with a dual NVME hat, or 
maybe a couple of Pis with an NVME each.

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Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-01-03 01:04 +0000
  Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-01-03 02:23 +0100
    Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-02 21:16 -0500
  Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-03 02:00 +0000
    Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-02 22:20 -0500
      Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-03 12:28 +0000
        Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-03 08:07 -0500
    Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-01-03 14:09 +0000
      Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-03 18:06 +0000
        Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-01-03 20:20 +0000
      Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-03 22:07 +0000
        Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-01-03 22:45 +0000
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