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Opinions about using a mini PC with a HDD enclosure as NAS (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking on buying a 2-4 bay HDD powered enclosure as a NAS for my mini pc, since I already have that, and buying or building a full-fledged diy NAS seems a bit expensive.

I want to hear some opinions from you guys, since it seems using this method is a mixed area from the selfhosted pros. I would be hoping that by using a powered enclosure, that would alleviate or solve the USB port overcharging issue, which have appeared in my mini pc when trying out an external HDD with a normal sata to usb converter.

Did you have any experiences with a setup like this one?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Have you had data loss occurences in these bay enclosures? Some other commenters have said, that using it as a primary storage is really risky because some crappy controllers could ruin the drives's data for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes there is someone talking everybody down about USB enclosures*.

Maybe he got burned or something...

Can say never had an issue and I replaced many motherboards over 20 years, and also many enclosures.

Don't go too cheap, but don't worry too much. I highly recommend a raid setup anyway. And always do backups, bit this is unrelated to USB specifically

not referring to op or the other comment specifically, just noticed in general somebody always negative about USB on all posts lime this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I have not, but I also run it as a RAIDZ, so if I did have issues with one, the parity should cover it. That being said it is a backup for me.