NAS from my broken legion y720 laptop

tilenbox · May 23

Hello,

I've been thinking of buying a NAS for a while and I still got some saving to do.

In the mean time could I repurpose my old Lenovo Legion y720 as a NAS as an experiment/temporary solution?

The Y720 has a dead GPU (I still think it was a bad batch of them that failed 2y out of warranty) how would that effect performance? (it stil has an iGPU; It runs Ubuntu fine)

I know it's not an optimal solution (max 2 discs) but I think it would be a fun project.

Does anyone have any experience? Looking to install TrueNAS.

Average Nerd · May 23

10 minutes ago, tilenbox said:

how would that effect performance?

For a simple file server, not in the slightest.

tilenbox · May 23

9 minutes ago, Average Nerd said:

For a simple file server, not in the slightest.

I was thinking more in the way of problems with the NAS program install. Since it is a laptop and the GPU will stay on the MB.

Average Nerd · May 23

1 minute ago, tilenbox said:

I was thinking more in the way of problems with the NAS program install. Since it is a laptop and the GPU will stay on the MB.

It shouldn't matter, since the laptop display is driven by the iGPU anyways.

The defective GPU chip will just be ignored by the OS