tomten@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server?English
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4 months ago2.5" disks are SMR, you don’t want that in a raid.
2.5" disks are SMR, you don’t want that in a raid.
Unless you have use case for that much horsepower I would suggest, like others here, buy a mini PC as a start and if you need more down the line buy a second one. They are cheap, fairly quiet and don’t use much power.
If I where you I would just buy a regular case that can fit a decent amount of HDDs like a fractal define 7 or one of its older versions and transplant your current computer into that with some new drives. 100tb is 5 20tb drives so you don’t need that many.
USB enclosures are not a great way to handle storage as USB tends to be unreliable.
I use Alpine Linux for all my dockers, small and fast.