Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOP
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    4 months ago

    Yup, I ended up frankensteining a nas from various craigslist parts (i actually found a low-power business-class server motherboard that has worked out well for the purpose). Had to get a SAS HBA card and a couple SFF-8087 cables to do the job right, and I grabbed an old gaming case from the 2010’s to hold it all, but it was relatively seamless. I had one of the drives go out already, but luckily I had it in a raid configuration with parity so it was just a matter of swapping out the drives and rebuilding.

    It’s been fun and rewarding, for sure! I’m glad I didn’t sell them like these other dweebs told me to lol