I volunteer with a very small museum with horrible internet, I’m trying to put together a nas/VDI machine out of my spare parts if possible with the possibility of a small community grant. I was thinking about building it around an old Cooler Master HAF XB EVO (HAF XB Rev. 2) - High Air Flow Cube Style ATX Computer Case with Removable Drive Cages and Dual 120mm XtraFlo Fans I have but I’m trying to put together the most energy/data efficient setup possible, and to maximize the storage. After catching the video on the icey dock adapter probably looking at two of those. everything else is still up in the air. I’m looking at a max $1500 usd budget for now. this will basically be used for storage of scanned documents and artifacts then people will be able to connect in with their device look at the items and either transcribe or classify the materials presented then nightly or over the weekend the data all gets copied to the cloud .
Samsung PM893 for your boot drive (smallest is fine)
pair of NEW high capacity HDD’s
Consumer grade CPU & MoBo with ECC RAM and a 80+ Gold power supply and you’re set.
If the budget is low how about a used HP EliteDesk 800 G5 SFF.
It fits two 3.5“ HDD and (with a adapter) two nvme m.2 drives and you still got the 16x slot free for networking.
They are cheap, reliable and are very power efficient, they will ideal at around 10W without HDDs.
I imagine even a Pi 5 would be able to do this and save a good deal of money, too.
Much more would likely be overkill considering the size of the non-profit.
Looking at PI5 prices, the HP G5 would be cheaper/same price, have better power, and better connectivity for storage., imho
Oh, there are plenty of more powerful options for the money.
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I just assume we all have Pi drawer full of half-baked projects. lol
Was literally looking this morning, but a pi, case, power supply, and NVMe board was gonna cost near double a refurbed x86 machine.
I’m using a pi4 in my home betwork, and have a pi3 for projects like atmo / humid testing, or mobile projects.
Just the overall cost is surprisingly high, now the 5 can do a bunch of things…
back with pi3, it was closer to $35, with power plug included, and didn’t bother with case. that was much more attractive…
and yes, I sabotaged myself with NVMe and case… but… that would bring features closer to the minipc anyway…
I run an Odroid HC4 with a pair of 8TB HDDs as my local backup target. It is not fast but price is basically of the two HDDs.
Thanks for all the idea’s. I’m finally back on this after a bit of an illness, and the hp isn’t a bad idea at all nor the pie for that matter but I’m definitely aiming x86 that way hopefully I won’t be tied to this forever. I found a case I’m leaning twords for the build if possible. PHALCOMM L8 8+3Bay NAS CHASSIS 83.5"HDD+32.55"SSD BLACK. I’m waiting to see if anyone’s hd issues with it if not im gonna start a build. I hope.
I remember when someome modded the OnePlus One firmware to turn the internal storage in to an F2FS fileserver.
Too bad it didn’t catch on to other phones… I guess you could run linux in a VM on android but that’s a lot of overhead
have you thought of a chromebook? If you have one lying around you could upgrade the storage and run your NAS software on it
sounds like you already have it figured out though with the parts
Look at this guys channel, he reuses and test performance of a lot of decent old ebay hardware. Might give you some good ideas.
A Pi is a terrible advice.
Just grab a https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/ and possibly M.2 4×1 Card – ODROID
Even if you “just have” 1x PCIe it’s more than enough to saturate 2.5Gbit networking.