Comment on Mini pc for home server?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoJust get a used PC and make a NAS. No need to buy a dedicated one.
Comment on Mini pc for home server?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoJust get a used PC and make a NAS. No need to buy a dedicated one.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
For a (first) NAS, I generally discourage this.
Office liquidation desktops are great for home servers (if you aren’t paying for power). But they generally are very limited on storage. Limited bays to install hard drives and limited SATA ports. So you rapidly end up with drives just sitting on the bottom of the case and real jank pcie boards to extend your storage.
Which then becomes a HUGE issue when you have a drive failure. Because now you need to actually identify which drive is the failed one which involves reading off serial numbers and so forth.
Whereas a 4-bay NAS generally has dedicated hardware and hot swap bays which make this trivial. You might never actually use the hot swap capability, but it makes checking which drive is the bad drive fairly trivial.
Also, a good 4 bay NAS is REAL easy to unplug and put in the trunk of your car during a disaster. Don’t ask me how I know.