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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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My NAS draws about 25w (without drives). Show me an old PC with 6 3.5” drive bays that draws 25w.
I've got a 12VDC Mini PC as my NAS/Jellyfin server with 6 SSD's and no monitor that idles around 30watts and runs entirely off solar. It ain't fast but it does everything I need it to do and costs zero dollars to run.
Those are good. I got tired of dealing with the unique trouble that comes of having drives attached with a USB JBOD. Also it was just a celeron and kinda melted doen if I ran motion detection with Scrypted.