Hi! I have a NUC with 250GB SSD inside. It’s running everything from pihole through arr apps to 3d printing frontend. Since my family is starting to think “hey that’s a good idea can I use it too”, 250GB is starting to be not enough.

Do you have any recommendations? A NAS? A DAS? Something else?

For now, I’m downloading and deleting shows/movies cos I don’t have space obviously, but eventually I’d like to keep some that are cool. Or backup photos to it and stuff.

Thanks :)

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Attach 2 external disks via USB 3. Add them to a ZFS mirror. Use the mirror for storage. Buy a third one for backups.

    Performance is great and reliability should be pretty good assuming your disk enclosures aren’t junk. I’m using WD Elements and WD MyBook. I’ve had some problems with one WD Elements where its SATA to USB controller was overheating causing it to disconnect under extreme prolonged load. I solved that by slapping a small heatsink on it and drilling a hole in the case immediately above it for ventilation. I haven’t had failures on this pool since then. The other pool I run hasn’t had failures since inception circa 2019. Not a single squeak. It even uses a USB hub to split one port between 2 disks. 🥹

    I’m also using a couple of these and they’ve been supremely reliable. They’re identical to this.