CHEAP File server

[krycor]

So I was thinking of this unit.. it costs about 3.5k or there abouts. You can’t run vms but as I said, I’m already sold on buying a nuc or Apple mini for heavy lifting.. so want storage enclosure separate.

ORICO Five Bay Magnetic-type 3.5 inch Hard Drive Enclosure (DS500U3) - ORICO

Product Specification: MaterialABS Supported Capacity50TB•_Î10TB Single Disk ColorBlack PortUSB3.0 SpeedUSB3.0 5Gbps Power Supply12V8A IndicatorBlue LED Indicator Supported SystemWindows/Mac/Linux

www.orico.me

 

[krycor]

Btw you do get other units with the standard front split trays etc too and the costs don’t vary too much. I do wish there was a faster connection as technically your bottleneck will be that usb3.0 connection.

But I guess if you wanna go fancy, get two devices and split the data across them

 

[oldhat]

You should be able to set up a diy solution for around R10 000

Example:

Case
PSU
Motherboard
SATA Expansion card
CPU
Ram

 

[PsyWulf]

Microsoft storage spaces isnt bad at all.

Storage spaces is a bit risky,when it fails it fails spectacularly

I switched to Drivepool and haven't looked back. My favourite feature is that it actually keeps disks NTFS so you can pull an individual disk and access all the files stored on it,you can set per-folder or per-disk duplication(redundancy) and JBOD mixed. If you combine it with their scanner software it can eject and move data when SMART signals imminent disk failure. I'm also mirroring some content to cloud drives,if you pull a disk/folder mirrored in this way it continues reading from the cloud transparently

The software handles presenting the combined storage as disks too

Short of it is: I'm a stingy bastard,I took out money to pay for this software it's that good

 

[supersunbird]

Hi guys

OK... I have some old high end hardware thats aging and eats electricity and i'm looking at what cheapy board, chip and ram ideas people can recommend that can run on a lower powered PSU thats good enough to run 24/7 and not make Eskom rich!.

The biggest requirement would be LOTS of SATA3 ports (7 or more)

I don't want to use my existing PC's as they are each 850/900w Corsairs with i7 4790k's with ASUS Maximus VII Formula boards - runs Win11 fine with no TPM2 module installed... and considering that i'm finally buying an XBOX series X... I don't really need them for gaming anymore and it would be a waste of money to run them 24/7 as they are currently...

Buying a NAS server becomes too costly too... Yes, I'd love to get one or two... but... no...

What CHEAP PC parts would you recommend in this case to save on power, can run 24/7, have a stack of SATA3 ports that can drive 10tb+ sized drives...?

Thanks in advance

This:

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Has 6 x SATA3 ports and 1 x M2

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Basically a i7-4790 but with ~15% better processing speeds and 25% less power use.

And whatever cheapest RAM.