I spent nearly six years running a dual-socket decade-old Xeon server as my primary NAS. Recently, I moved to an off-the-shelf Ugreen NAS and started comparing the two. The thing is, they really can’t be compared, and I realized I’ve spent way more money on that old Lenovo than I originally thought.
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