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Setting up the Stream as STREAMNAS!
First of all, I should probably list the (both self- and externally-imposed) criteria for my ‘NAS’:
Always-on, and thus low-power.
Non-fixed: needs to be person-portable.
Cheap! I was determined to see what I could do with what I have rather than simply 'buy my way out' of the problem.
Beginner-level... I'm not quite an experimenter yet, but I have ambitions.
Basically, I wanted an always-on, networked, backup system; it’s just a glorified (but somehow unholy) NAS. It consists of an old fanless netbook that was gathering dust and three old hard-drives (in various external cases).
My use-case is a central repository for the home which can be written-to and read-from with any device on the network, including mobiles, as a basic back-up. It means I can access data, & especially media, where I would previously need to copy over piles of media whenever I set up a new PC.
Every couple of weeks, I plug in an external HDD and copy over new data for off-site storage.
Using between 26W and 32W of power, which is more than BushNAS, but probably the lowest I'll manage with what I have. (Again, I'm trying to avoid buying my way out of problems.)
24.08pkWh–¹/1000/100*24h*365.25*28W = about £59 per year.
(£/Wh x hours in a year x ~average power draw)
Shares are (so far) appearing ok on another PC.
Seems to go down to around 15W when screen is closed: even better!
