Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

[Christian Britz]

On 2022-02-02 15:25 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote:

> How small is small for you?

A small box which fits under my desk.

> And do you need RAID, or just storage, and if so, how much?

RAID is overkill and I need approximately 500G of storage.

> For example, an ASRock 4X4 BOX-R1000V will run Debian Stable
> nicely. It's very small. It's very quiet -- one CPU fan, nothing
> else. But because it is so small, it only has room for one M.2
> drive and one 2.5" SATA3 drive. If you need more storage, it
> will have to be via USB3, which I do not really recommend.

Sounds very interesting.

> (US $250 plus memory and disk).

To be honest, I hope to pay less. ;-). A normal sized SATA disk would
already be available. Searching the web now for suitable mini desktops.