Are there any good non-rackmount NAS cases or are they all shit?

are there any good non-rackmount NAS cases or are they all shit?

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Depends on what you need. For 4+ drives you probably can DIY build a Linux box much cheaper.

>>>>NAS cases
Just get a small case with a bunch of 5.25" bays so you can put hotswap arrays inside.

I was looking at the Lian li q25 but not all of the drives are hotswappable.

the q26 is better but also discontinued

I was thinking of doing this but I'm not sure how reliable those are

How about buying whole server instead?

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I want something small form factor to put next to m router

Then you won't get an anything smaller than tiny ARM based server.

Here I am looking for a good rackmount NAS case and it's all desktop box synology shit. I just want a low powered 19" something with a bunch of JBOD disk slots.

mini ITX server boards are fine and a good case can hold enough drives for my use, only problem is FINDING A FUCKING CASE THAT ISN'T DISCONTINUED

FreeNAS community reccomends supermicro for whatever that's worth

hp microservers can be picked up cheap. choose your own OS, more powerful than off the shelf, semi-expandable, low power, yada yada

I was planning on getting my own hardware

Lian Li Ex 503

Not a NAS, you connect it with an USBs

Still, an excellent little thing if you dont require network

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>you connect it with "an USBs"
you're retarded if you think this is any good

ok so a device which performs terribly but has a nice ethernet connector must be always better?

you are trusting the integrity of your data on at most 5 drives to a shitty fucking usb controller. are you retarded?

how is NAS box which holds 5 drives any better?
explain

it has a proper sata controller, which has a lower chance of fucking your shit up, and it's not using your host's cpu cycles to control five fucking drives.

if you have the money for a NAS you live in a place where you could use that money to upgrade your net and just use the cloud at 700mbs you actually access the cloud faster than a mechanical drive .. thru a network its prob even a lower amount of net like 200-400mbs or some thing.


stop wasting your money on harddrives and upgrade your net they don't care about wares or porn.

You have no idea what you are talking about

Lian Li 503 has a proper jMicron SATA RAID controller, it is an embedded computer.

It has another chip, NEC USB 3.0 chip, for USB interface.

The USB HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DRIVES WHATSOEVER. It simply functions as the means of communication between Lian Li 503 and the PC

I have a qnap set up for my parents, it's great, or was until their in-house linux distro had a security leak
then they patched it, so who knows what'll happen?
they're super easy to set up, but the raid controller always bitches about something or other whenever there's a power flicker

CUTE ! want ... also ARM is good for your power bill (which most basement dewellers dont consider)

i dig it considering my main i7 tower case has just slowly filled with HDD's and morphed into NAS ever since i got a macbook

Im in a fucking real bad corner at the moment as i have about 8tb split over 6 drives in my tower and i have run out of space after some 2tb rolled over :( last year ( i keep about 4tb of very critical stuff mirrored at least 4tb of external drives in a safe offline )

FUCK NAS BOXES. HONESTLY I LOOKED AT THE PRICE OF 6TB AND 8TB DRIVES THE OTHER DAY AND FUCKING SHAT MY PANTS. WTF !

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>a proper jMicron SATA RAID controller
lmao, seek help

Didn't supermicro have small chips on their boards for Chinese bot net?

yes. :^)

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>DAS

no thanks.

DAS

stop hoarding shit

Zero evidence, no schematics, picture or code

I'd just buy a CD-rack to HDD3.5 cage. And I did. Works great.

get used enterprise server
install 10gbe nic
install freenas
buy bunch of cheap refurbished 3tb's
raid 10 them

enjoy

Synology and QNAP boxes are the best prebuilt ones to consider, and even then you'll bee paying more for them. All others, you'd probably be better off building it yourself.

>DAS
n..no thanks

UPS user, UPS

I got a Rosewill RSV-L4500 which is 4u, was thinking of getting a rack for it and just going all in on rack mounting my networking gear. Recommendations?

you can customize their designs
that is free to download to its website
submit it to a metal shop
and buy the components online
or buy the package and just not put it on a rack

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Backblaze storage pods are shit. The reason why they work well for Backblaze is because they have thousands of them all running in-house designed software needed to manage failover of the pods. The pods are designed to use a butt load of SATA multipliers which is full retard.

>sata multipliers

lmao imagine actually using those

What is this? It'd be better if it were front loading with toolless mounting but that's still very attractive

For that price you could set up a x86 server using a j4105

Just replace it with SAS cards and SAS multipliers
and OP is searching for cases not the whole system
and the storage pod seems to have a pretty good chassis

you can get a 4u supermicro chassis for like $80.

I dont see why OP would go for SAS
unless he is on a 10 gigabit speeds and would pay extra for SAS
Still, a more reliable SATA system is still less expensive than the cheap SAS
>4u supermicro
storage pod have more drive capacity than 4u
and can be customize after a bit of tweaking on your own

>storage pod have more drive capacity than 4u
just buy higher capacity hdds
24x hdds is more than enough

if you "need" more than 20tb of storage you should be sent to a mental hospital

nobody *needs* anything outside of water, bread and shelter.

obviously, we *want* things to make our lives as comfortable as possible.