• RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Old laptops can are actually great servers—hear me out:

    • Built in KVM
    • Low power consumption
    • Battery = UPS for power blips
    • SSD (sometimes)
    • Wifi + Ethernet = Redundant NICs
    • Quiet (sometimes)
    • Small form factor
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      1 year ago

      The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

      Really old laptops have PCMCIA slots too that you can hook into newer interfaces. I used a PCMCIA eSATA card for a laptop NAS!

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        The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

        Absolutely. I still have my laptop from high school, and it’s battery has been long gone. The screen is on its last legs.

        Maybe it will be a server one day, but for now it’s my DnD laptop. Sucks a bit when somebody bumps the power cord and the battlemap turns off. But it’s still limping by.