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?

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I like this idea but not keen to go as far as buying a 3D printer.

    I might look for something that will hold 4 drives with potential for that kind of expansion later on though.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If you think you might need more, get one with more slots up-front. Trying to add more HDD to a case that wasn’t designed for them sucks.