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For those of you who build your own NAS, what are you willing to buy used? (alien.top)

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I've been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I'm thinking there are probably parts that don't matter if you buy used vs new but I'm curious what your thoughts are?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The only thing I buy new are the HDD’s for the bulk storage.

I’ll buy used enterprise SSD’s for flash storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh wow, that's awesome. No concerns buying used CPU, RAM, or MOBO? I'm assuming you buy a new power supply though right?

[–] huskypenguin 1 points 10 months ago

Not OP but, CPU and RAM have incredible low failure rates. Mobos are pretty rare too. A PSU Id but new, and make sure it's the highest efficiency.

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

No concerns here.

I buy used server chassis and power supplies for my NASes.

The only new items in my primary, backup, and offsite NASes are the 500TB of HDD’s and a couple of fan splitters.

The only new items in my 3 Proxmox nodes are…nothing actually. All SSD’s, HDD’s and everything else is used enterprise hardware.