I’m new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something.

I was thinking of implementing something to make it power on, on demand, but I’m not sure if this might be harmful for the HDDs, and I’m not sure how to implment it if so.

What’s your recommendation to do so? I’m running a dell optiplex 3050

  • poVoqEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    If you only use it so rarely, why not just connect a USB drive to your network router? Most have an option to serve files from that over the network.

    • @Mir@programming.devOPEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      That’s a great idea that I haven’t thought about, but I’m using couple of apps to view and the network thing is less convenient albeit attractive solution that I might look into. Thank you