Recent content by Kalsan

There's yet another option, combining a kind of beast (not extremely fast but quite competitive) and a low-power idle consumption (10W) in a fanless case: https://airtop-pc.com/ This might be able to play the role of NAS and main computer in one. It has a nice idle consumption and still has...

Thanks again! This sounds very interesting indeed. I'm already familiar with KVM / qemu, but I'll have to take a look at Bhyve too. VMs certainly are an option if the host keeps running 24/7, but assuming I'd put the VM on the large computer, the setup would not allow to save power due to the...

Thank you for your tips! I don't think I'll ever find a case that fits my needs so I'll probably have to build my own, but that's fine. However I find your suggestion with FreeNAS and RAID controller very interesting. Did I understand this correctly that this means building a cheap computer and...

Thanks for your reply! There's one detail that I might have not explained clearly enough: If possible I want the big machine to be disk-less except for the system disk, meaning that all the user files (/home under Linux, "C:\Users" under Windows) reside on a central storage that is always on...

Hi there! This is my first post and I'd like to share a dream of me with you, looking for discussion and hoping to learn lots of things. Let me say beforehand that I'm unexperienced with hardware and that everything I write here is information I collected by surfing and asking people. Many of...