Hello lemmy, I have currently 4x4tb hard drives but they are almost full. Im thinking of getting a 8 bay das so i can put extra drives in it. I have looked around but wasnt able to find something that looked good, does someone have recommandations? Thanks for your time!

  • astraeusEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I doubt many are looking for 8-bay DAS, anything larger than 4-bay you are probably better off with NAS. Many DAS have limited RAID support, which can make having more drives more risky.

    • Hercules@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I doubt many are looking for 8-bay DAS, anything larger than 4-bay you are probably better off with NAS. Many DAS have limited RAID support, which can make having more drives more risky.

      But i already have a computer that works well enough, isnt it a waste to completly replace it with a nas?

        • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          That would replace the computer with the NAS though and is not true for a server that you’d want to extend, right?

            • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              No worries I phrased that quite weird I think.

              A NAS is only more power efficient if the additional power of a full server is not used. If for some reason the server is still needed than the NAS will be additional power consumption and not save anything.

              (for example I run some quite RAM and compute heavy things on my server which no stock NAS could handle I think).

    • picnicolas@slrpnk.netEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I’ll take an 8 bay NAS with Thunderbolt/USB 4 for the best of both worlds. My only problem is that I’m very sensitive to sound and I don’t want spinning hard drives in my office.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I personally use an old self-built desktop running linux (TrueNAS and Windows also work). Getting a case with lots of drive bays is inexpensive. And it lets you do pretty much whatever you want with the NAS as it’s a full blown computer. I always found the prices for the purpose built NAS to be shockingly high.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      And the thing is, you can get cases like the Silverstone CS382 for $200 with 8 hot-swap HDD bays, regular mATX mobo and full size PSU and install whatever you want in there. Why be tied down to a proprietary enclosure?

  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I think Mediasonic still makes 8 bay DAS units, they’re becoming a lot rarer.
    I would probably start looking at NAS units if I were you, or buy a bigger tower case and fit the disks internally instead.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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