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NAS case (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Im in the market for a NAS solution. By NAS I don't mean running Jellyfin and some homepage thing for vibes, I mean your old-style "it just provides network attached storage".

I love the Jonsbo cases but I don't want to drop as much coin as building out a NAS based on one of them entails. I'm looking for an older office/home/gaming PC or case that has room for atleatst 4 3.5" HDD’s. Something around ten years old with maybe an i5 7th+ gen CPU. I don't need hardware RAID as I prefer ZFS anyway.

Ideas?

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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I also have it, I find it quite tricky to work in it because of its compactness. In retrospect, I would have gone with a Fractal Design Define and some hack to enable drives hot swap.

[–] ascendings@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

+1 on the Fractal Define series. My Fractal Define 7 was a breeze to work in, even if it is a little expensive.