From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   mm0fmf  wrote:   
   >   
   > 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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