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This probably isn't normal consumer price, but supermicro makes some very nice nas-targeted hardware that you can populate with your own drives and choice of OS
by dgacmu 3y ago
This probably isn't normal consumer price, but supermicro makes some very nice nas-targeted hardware that you can populate with your own drives and choice of OS. I have one with 183 TB running trueNAS (zfs) and it's great.
They're just bog standard x86 boxes with a lot of drive slots, a backplane, and a lot of sad or sata ports and controller capacity. There's a pretty healthy used market in these things also. But they are targeting people who want to put 10 or more drives in a single enclosure, which is why I say they might not be consumer.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoSuperMicro stuff has gotten so expensive. I remember when they were first getting started and even years afterwards, and it's nothing like today. Honestly, best thing you can do now is just live with a tower server or buy off-lease from eBay. We've passed the hump where the off-lease eBay specials had the energy footprint of a small factory and used turbine jet engines to power the fans and cool things down. I did buy once buy a no-name (ATX?) 2U case/rails only from eBay, but the manufacturing, accessibility, ergonomics, design, and everything else were terrible enough that I would not do it again.
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