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Do you actually need 100TB instantly available? Could a portion of that be cold storage that can be booted quickly from a WOL packet from the always-on machine when needed? With some tweaking, you could probably set up an alpine-based NAS to boot in <10 seconds, especially if you picked something that supported coreboot and could avoid that long bios post time.
Don’t need the 100TB instantly. Most of the Linux ISOs are more for archival reasons.
Talk to me more about this NAS with WOL. :-)
Most motherboards support wake packets sent over Ethernet. They only work on your lan, but they will start a machine or wake it from sleep. Sending a packet from another machine is fairly simple, it’s old tech. I’ve seen simple web servers that have a “send wake” button, but you could probably trigger it from a variety of things
The WoL part I’ve got.
It’s the NAS with ~10 second boot time that can house enough drives for 80TB of data which would be triggered and accessible to a plex server when needed that I’m more interested in.
Alpine Linux can boot in a few seconds. Stick to something extremely simple like nfs or samba and nothing else in the boot. Or use suspend to ram with your regular OS.
Last question; how would I get it to wake when someone’s trying to access a file on it?
Maybe you could just spin down/turn off the disks? That will reduce power consumption a lot and they'll get up once requested.
So more like a commercial NAS box and less like a repurposed Dell server.
Why?