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DAS recommandation (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months 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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[–] astraeus@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago (1 children)

The NAS will have a lower power consumption.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago (1 children)

What? I don’t follow sorry

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 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.net 1 points 8 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.