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Using USB3 / USBC external storage for years.
Buy a good, non cheap, USB jbod or raid enclosure and put SSDs in it!
I have a 4 bay USB3 jbod plus a 2 bay USB-C box, inside the disks are all RAID.
Indeed internal disks / ssds / nvme are better, but consider that speed wise even USB3 is faster than any WiFi.
Just don't but they cheap and use good cables. And if you use spinning disks, ensure they stay cool.
Do they make 2.5" DASs?
I put my 2.5 ssds with adapters into 3.5 bays
Any specific reason why you'd want to go with NVMEs for your storage, and not just 2.5 SSDs?
If it's performance you're concerned about. I have 3 SSDs in RAID (external USB 3.2 JBOD enclosure), and they perform way better than a single NVME.
For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.
For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.
The OP would be better serve with a second hand mini computer from HP or Dell than that crap. AliExpress brands (including Minisforum) are all fun an games until you run into some UEFI bug that will never get a fix and won't you boot some system or have some feature, or your board doesn't have proper ESD protection and randomly fries when a USB device is inserted.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| LTT | Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
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