9 ms·

Also plenty of slightly more capable laptop class SKUs that are in this ballpark.

• vladvasiliu 5y ago
  Can you still find "desktop" motherboards to go with them? A long time ago, I remember there being desktop MBs for the Pentium M.
  • londons_explore 5y ago
    For an always running thing, choosing a laptop motherboard is a nice way to guarantee all the power saving features will work properly. Most desktop motherboards won't allow the PCI express bus to sleep for example, using an extra ~4 watts, $8 per year in eco-friendly countries. Across the ~10 years your NAS will probably sit in a cupboard, that's $80, which isn't an awful lot, but probably would have let you buy a bigger SSD or hard drive which would have had more utility.
    • vladvasiliu 5y ago
      That's true, but then again I wouldn't be comfortable with a single-disk NAS... However, for running random VMs, etc, I think a laptop is quite a good proposition.