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?
My NAS is in a node 304 case from fractal design and I can recommend it.
The 304 is mini-ITX/DTX with space for 6 drives.
There is a bigger version for bigger motherboards and more drives, which I would assume is just as good as mine.
Can recommend the bigger case if you need more drives, I love mine
I have a Fractal Define 6 with room for (i think) 12 HDDs. They have tons of great options for HDD storage.
Same, I have over 100 TB of drives in an 804. In very happy.