submitted 2 years ago by Hercules@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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!

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[-] Hercules@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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?

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The NAS will have a lower power consumption.

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What? I don’t follow sorry

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years 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).

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