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At San Francisco electricity prices of ~$0.50/kWh, using an old gaming PC/workstation instead of a lower power platform will cost you hundreds of dollars per year in electricity. The cost of an N100-based NAS gets dwarfed by the electricity cost of reusing old hardware.


But do you really need to keep it on 24/7? What about a wake-on-LAN solution?


You wouldn't want to consume your hard disk spin-up count every day.


Does WoL... actually work with non-industrial server and networking gear? Any time I've looked into it, it's seemed interminably finicky.


Anecdata: I use it every day to wake my windows desktop PC

and to hibernate it: ssh -f desktop 'shutdown /h'




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