Subj : Re: Dead NAS...
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 19 2024 07:26 am

-=> Arelor wrote to Ogg <=-

 Ar> If your hope is to install your own NAS software then I guess it is
 Ar> because you are after specfic features, at which point I am sure you
 Ar> will be better off building your own machine from parts.

One machine I like a lot that looks cheap in the used market is the HP
Proliant MicroServer - some of the older ones are cheap, they have AMD
CPUs and a couple of easily-accessible drive bays.

 > A two-bay would be good enough for me to start with.  And 4TB
 > (2 x 8TB, RAID 1) would be plenty.  I too primarily just need
 > to store clone-images and basic backups.

An off-lease business PC with two drive bays might do the trick? Some of
the Dell Optiplex 90X0 systems come with RAID on the motherboard,
otherwise PCI-x RAID SATA cards are pretty cheap.


 
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