Need suggestions for storage expansion in a mini pc (self.selfhosted)

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Hi all, I have a very simple homeland which consists of just one thinkcentre mini pc. I don't really need extra storage at this moment, but I think adding another disk for redundancy will be nice.

The problem is, the mini pc only has space for one hard drive. What is the best thing to do in this case? Is the a reliable way to add an (ideally, with space to add more later) extra disk to it? I don't really want to get something like a Synology as I'm happy with the processing power etc. of this. Some way to expand the storage as directly as possible will be the best.

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[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

How bad are the vibrations?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Not bad at all. These are 4 external WD drives. The actual disks are mounted on big ass rubber mounts to the cases. They're quieter than bare disks in a PC case.

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