Hello,

I would like to setup a dirty cheap NAS for my local network. I want to spend near the price of no money. I have multiple 3.5’ HDD sata drives and I want to access them from my network. I could place them in my desktop, but it is not on 24/7, and power usage would be too high for this use case. I have RPI Zero W, Radxa Zero 1 (although no idea how am I supposed to put firmware in this thing), and Odroid C2.

What are my options?

  • springs87@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How many drives? You can normally pick up cheap 2nd hand nas boxes for next to nothing

    • MBle@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would like at least 4 bay. I looked around on Polish auction services, but they cost 2000PLN+ (~500USD)

    • sodium111@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I am in the same boat as OP — can you share any advice on where to look, and any examples of different brands, models, or specs to look for to make sure I’m not buying crap?

    • mirx@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What would be examples of this? I always see small, old and overpriced. So I do what OP does. Plug them into my proxmox server or desktop.

      • AnApexBread@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Have you tried using a USB drive bay station with proxmox before?

        I’m debating getting a 5 bay station, plugging it into my proxmox and passing the USB through to an OMV VM but I’m not sure if that will work.