> Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
My take on this, the answer is yes, until a hardware part fails, and in 10 year old computers, they do.
Then it gets tricky: laptops, especially 10 year old laptops can be very hard to fix.
My take on this, the answer is yes, until a hardware part fails, and in 10 year old computers, they do.
Then it gets tricky: laptops, especially 10 year old laptops can be very hard to fix.
But yes, some models probably don't have the same level of second-hand parts market, making repair difficult.
Otherwise just restore the backup to a 5 year old laptop.
If you laptop server can run for 5 or 10 years, there is a good chance that during that time, you spilled coffee in the keyboard of another laptop, making it a good candidate for the new server.
I have a 12 year old laptop, that has been a server for 8 years.