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I bought a mini-ITX board with 4 SATA ports and an embedded CPU. I added a PCIe card with 2 additional SATA ports. I bought a mini-ITX case with mounts for 6 HD

by Osiris 6y ago

I bought a mini-ITX board with 4 SATA ports and an embedded CPU. I added a PCIe card with 2 additional SATA ports. I bought a mini-ITX case with mounts for 6 HDDs. I have 5 8TB drives (RAIDZ2) and 1 SSD as the boot drive. The system runs Ubuntu Server. I found this setup a lot cheaper than the dedicated NAS boxes you can buy and more flexible.

vermaden 6y ago
Can you post a link to that Mini-ITX case? Thanks.
- jtbarrett 6y ago
  I’m not the parent but I built something similar in the Fractal Node 304 which supports six 2.5” drives. Mine’s been going strong for 7 years now. https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304 https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304
  - Osiris 6y ago
    That's exactly the one I have.
  - vermaden 6y ago
    Thanks.
znpy 6y ago
Yes please, can you post the brand/model of that case?