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Can you still find "desktop" motherboards to go with them? A long time ago, I remember there being desktop MBs for the Pentium M.
by 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 agoFor 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 agoThat'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.