From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com   
      
   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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