Mine is an old gaming pc bought off a friend (core i5 gen 4) with a bunch of drives in snapraid/mergerfs. That gets rid of the storage overhead and power consumption of real raid. The pc cost about $100 and the drives were a little over $80 apiece many years ago.
It costs about three dollars to run a gaming pc with ten disks 24/7 for a month. Once the video card came out it really wasn’t too consumptive. Even as a seed of its idling most of the time!
Mine is an old gaming pc bought off a friend (core i5 gen 4) with a bunch of drives in snapraid/mergerfs. That gets rid of the storage overhead and power consumption of real raid. The pc cost about $100 and the drives were a little over $80 apiece many years ago.
It costs about three dollars to run a gaming pc with ten disks 24/7 for a month. Once the video card came out it really wasn’t too consumptive. Even as a seed of its idling most of the time!