Im in the market for a NAS solution. By NAS I don’t mean running Jellyfin and some homepage thing for vibes, I mean your old-style “it just provides network attached storage”.
I love the Jonsbo cases but I don’t want to drop as much coin as building out a NAS based on one of them entails. I’m looking for an older office/home/gaming PC or case that has room for atleatst 4 3.5" HDD’s. Something around ten years old with maybe an i5 7th+ gen CPU. I don’t need hardware RAID as I prefer ZFS anyway.
Ideas?
I have a silverstone DS380. Its pretty good, but limits you to ITX, so finding 8 SATA is kinda hard.
I also have it, I find it quite tricky to work in it because of its compactness. In retrospect, I would have gone with a Fractal Design Define and some hack to enable drives hot swap.
+1 on the Fractal Define series. My Fractal Define 7 was a breeze to work in, even if it is a little expensive.
I have the same case. Wiring was once a bit of pain but after that I had no problems.
yeah but thats a like… once, maybe twice task. I think I did it a second time after I swapped my Wifi module for a google coral.