[waswaswas]

At San Francisco electricity prices of ~$0.50/kWh, using an old gaming PC/workstation instead of a lower power platform will cost you hundreds of dollars per year in electricity. The cost of an N100-based NAS gets dwarfed by the electricity cost of reusing old hardware.

[lelele]

But do you really need to keep it on 24/7? What about a wake-on-LAN solution?

[reddalo]

You wouldn't want to consume your hard disk spin-up count every day.

[Marsymars]

Does WoL... actually work with non-industrial server and networking gear? Any time I've looked into it, it's seemed interminably finicky.

[crtasm]

Anecdata: I use it every day to wake my windows desktop PC

and to hibernate it: ssh -f desktop 'shutdown /h'