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Hello my fellow hoarders, quick question, what is the cheapest way to have a lot of storage? (alien.top)
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So awhile ago I got a computer with a motherboard with 6 sata ports and that was doing good but only 6 ports limits me. I love buying used hard drives so is there a cheaper way to use all these hard drives, like a multi bay enclosure or maybe a server???

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The absolute cheapest way to get storage. For the barest bones, ugliest setup, I've seen people have two PC power supplies on their desk, a motherboard, a few SATA cards, and a number of drives plugged into the SATA cards, and using Linux + ZFS + Samba for the heavy lifting. Alternatively, a "NAS PC case" with a decent motherboard and such should work.

If I were building the cheapest way to have a lot of storage, but have a warranty, I'd go for a higher end QNAP NAS that supports QuTS Hero, even QES. I would then load TrueNAS SCALE on the QNAP hardware, use ZFS from there on out. This ensures a lower attack surface, and ZFS without any added stuff. The QNAP hardware isn't cheap, but it is fairly reliable.