05-23-2025, 08:27 PM
@TheOldPresbyope that's great... I'm also on a pretty ancient ThinkPad although not sure if it's 10 yet (T480s FTW!).
I do keep a Windows machine running all the time, it's Celeron-based and shouldn't draw too much more more power than my Pi aside from the attached spinning disk. Regardless less than a bunch of other appliances in the house. Compared to my dehumidifier and HVAC nothing really adds up
That said the Windows box for me has other things on it so I don't want to go opening holes so I think better path for me is the Pi and Moode sharing out the file assuming I have another hard drive around with the space. At the moment down to just two Pis both doing Moode duty so would need to share from one of them. If they don't have the horsepower I have an old ThinkCentre mini (original version w/ so I think well over 10 years old) that I've wanted to convert to ChromeOS or a Linux-y box but I don't know whether I have the technical chops for the latter or if the machine is still alive. I think that would also suck down a bit more power than just putting a HDD on the Pi.
I do keep a Windows machine running all the time, it's Celeron-based and shouldn't draw too much more more power than my Pi aside from the attached spinning disk. Regardless less than a bunch of other appliances in the house. Compared to my dehumidifier and HVAC nothing really adds up
That said the Windows box for me has other things on it so I don't want to go opening holes so I think better path for me is the Pi and Moode sharing out the file assuming I have another hard drive around with the space. At the moment down to just two Pis both doing Moode duty so would need to share from one of them. If they don't have the horsepower I have an old ThinkCentre mini (original version w/ so I think well over 10 years old) that I've wanted to convert to ChromeOS or a Linux-y box but I don't know whether I have the technical chops for the latter or if the machine is still alive. I think that would also suck down a bit more power than just putting a HDD on the Pi.
