

Side note, anyone need cloud storage?
Side note, anyone need cloud storage?
Buy a used PC that can take a PCI-e card and has room for several drives.
Buy a used sas controller recommended by the truenas community
Stuff the PC with 10 drives: one SATA SSD for the OS and 9 20GB HDDs in ZFS configuration for 140 TB of storage with 2 failover drives.
Install TrueNAS and create a network share.
Repeat and/or upgrade as needed.
Edit: I just went web window shopping. Does anyone have $3k I could invest?
If you send an open letter and it gets enough views.
I actually did #2 because I was fixing one. If you REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING and have ALL THE TOOLS AND PROCESSES NECESSARY and the power supply is worth a few hundred dollars, it MIGHT be worth it.
Guess what? I still blew one up.
Stay safe friends. Recycle it and buy a new one.
I was expecting them to be more expensive, but $85/drive isn’t bad.
Hardware wise, are the drives SATA? I couldn’t get an answer at a glance. If you are running them mirrored, you can back off on the cost.
The three drives may ramp up the fan on that. Check to see if there are additional fan headers and add some intake fans.
Symantec has watched me execute the same script I wrote dozens times before suddenly deciding that it is malicious.