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?

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    And what’s your experience with it? Is the data transfer speed fast enough for you? Where do you do backups?

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

      The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.