NAS Folding

[JrClocker]

I will be getting a NAS soon (probably a QNAP TS-453A).

This box can run Virtual Machines.

Most of the time the NAS will just be sitting there...was figuring I could put it to use.

Has anybody ever tried folding on a NAS? What do you think PPD would be?

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

I will be getting a NAS soon (probably a QNAP TS-453A).

This box can run Virtual Machines.

Most of the time the NAS will just be sitting there...was figuring I could put it to use.

Has anybody ever tried folding on a NAS? What do you think PPD would be?

Probably a few K PPD. Maybe less
Even if it's 2K PPD it only uses 6 watts!

 

[Janus67]

Probably not much considering the cpu that is in there. Also, even though it has a small draw, I wouldn't be certain the heatsinks in those are meant for a 24/7 100% load (and it may also affect your file sharing depending on what all you plan to have running on it - plex, etc)

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

You could take a PC and turn it in to a NAS, goto FreeNas.org and download the software, as to folding with it, I'm not sure.

 

[JrClocker]

I should have clarified my initial question better.

I already have a NAS running (off my main router).

The QNAP device is a 4-bay RAID NAS (and capable of much more.) It has a quad core Celeron as it main CPU and can have a maximum of 16 GB of RAM. It's a lot of horsepower that will be sitting idle most of the time.

I always wanted a reason to learn about Linux (have been avoiding it thus far). My plan would be to setup a Linux VM on the NAS and dedicate that to folding. I am wondering how many PPD that would produce (i.e. is it even worth it)?

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

I should have clarified my initial question better.

I already have a NAS running (off my main router).

The QNAP device is a 4-bay RAID NAS (and capable of much more.) It has a quad core Celeron as it main CPU and can have a maximum of 16 GB of RAM. It's a lot of horsepower that will be sitting idle most of the time.

I always wanted a reason to learn about Linux (have been avoiding it thus far). My plan would be to setup a Linux VM on the NAS and dedicate that to folding. I am wondering how many PPD that would produce (i.e. is it even worth it)?

I dont see why it wouldn't be worth it. It is just going to sit there idle. Might as well make it do something useful. Might be only a few hundred ppd though