Yeah, good call. How fast/reliable/cheap are USB drive enclosures? Maybe I should just go that direction instead of buying a whole new system for it. As long as the NAS software doesn’t require much overhead, I’ve got an old laptop that should be able to handle things well enough if that would work.
Plus, then I could still grab one of these cheap Win 10 machine as a server box to run all of the services to go along with the NAS.
Edit: tons of great info here - thanks so much!
This is amazing info - thanks so much! I’ll probably end up putting the server in the basement, so sound hopefully won’t be much of an issue.
Gotcha, yeah, physical space was the main thing I was worried about picking up one of these used corpo boxes.
Would something like the HP DeskMini mentioned in another comment be a good enough choice for a service hosting machine? I suppose I could get one of the win-10 boxes for the hosting machine and then find a bigger case for a separate NAS.
I have an old, pretty big Antec tower from like 10 years ago that should have plenty of space for drives - I suppose I could reuse that for the NAS and just upgrade my main PC case to something more modern like I already wanted to do anyway.
I just wonder how necessary it is to add two full machines like this. Are there any specific reasons to separate the NAS from the hosting machine other than cost/size considerations? Like, would the systems interfere with each other?
Could I use one of these machines to double as an HTPC for my main TV as well, or does that need to be a separate third machine, for stability/etc. reasons?
Sorry for all of the questions!
Thanks so much! I expected it to be more complicated for some reason.
Great recommendation - I’ll keep my eye out for one!
Google keeps changing my country just as I get ready to move to another country. I haven’t had currency in correct local units in almost a decade.
And, of course, there’s no way to change this - it’s done automatically, and always at the worst possible time.
A significant number of linguists believe that words aren’t real, so…
And the math skills of a kindergartener.
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