Comment on Non-Win-11 PCs to keep my eyes out for to convert into a NAS?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Something to remember: NAS is just an acronym for Network Attached Storage. A NAS is not a specific product.
You can run NAS software on pretty much anything. My current NAS is a Mac Mini 2014 with a 4-bay USB drive enclosure. I’m in the process of building a more reliable NAS out of an old HP ProLiant ML110 G2 case - which is fully ATX compatible, strangely enough - with modern(ish) guts. It’s got 10 drive bays, too.
hakase@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
How fast/reliable/cheap are USB drive enclosures? Maybe I should just go that direction instead of buying a whole new system for it. As long as the NAS software doesn’t require much overhead, I’ve got an old laptop that should be able to handle things well enough if that would work.
Plus, then I could still grab one of these cheap Win 10 machine as a server box to run all of the services to go along with the NAS.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
For a NAS? Not very. Mine drops out periodically. That’s part of why I’m building another machine to house everything. The USB enclosure will not see “production” use after that.