i feel like NAS are overpriced so is buying them off aliexpress a good alternative?
>>109102136yes, just know that whatever firmware it comes with will never change and will be utter shit
I just got my inheritance and now I can afford 0.7 hard disk drives.
>>109102144What do you mean? What do they use? Linux? NetBSD? Are they made of standard components?Are you supergay?
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>>109102136>99€ for a caseThats a pretty bad deal when even the one by fractal costs 80-90€. Learn to read descriptions, they don't sell you the whole thing
>>109102144op's listing is just a case with a sas backplane in it, you have to provide your own mobo/hdds/os
>>109103252yours being slightly cheaper and not having any hotswap bays isn't a better deal. while sure you shouldn't have to swap hdd's often, why would you want to deal with cable management for 6+ hdd's in a tiny ITX case?
>>109103293it's just an example that OP's shit is overpriced chinkshit>not having any hotswap bays isn't a better dealpretty useless in a homelab setting where you can keep your drives 5+ years>why would you want to deal with cable management for 6+ hdd's in a tiny ITX case?i wouldn't use it for more than 2-4 drives, for anything more they have a bigger variant or you can just get a normal sized PC case where you don't have to pay the extra price for the small form factor
>>109103327>pretty useless in a homelab setting where you can keep your drives 5+ yearslike i said it's not a huge deal, but i have used 6 hdds in a standard case before and it's annoying enough to swap a hdd that i would pay 10 euro more for case with hotswap bays
>>109103334fair
>>109103327>>109103334oh and by "before" i mean "still" and since 2010... i've had to swap hdd's enough times that i wish i had hotswap bays... maybe some day i'll bother to do it, obviously it'll cost me more since i need a whole new case, which is the reason i'm saying i'd have paid the extra if given the option now
>>109103327I have that case.The window side doesn't fit on the drive side properly, but well enough. Looks better looking at the drives.
>>109103252But OP's case comes with an Iron Man suit, so that's a much better deal
