Re: Raspberry NAS, anyone?

On 18/01/2025 14:57, Lars Poulsen wrote:

I have a shelf with IDE/PATA and SATA drives from 200GB and up, that I have
not had the heart to throw out. Would it be worth the trouble to find an
enclosure and build a NAS out of them? Probably not. The enclosures that
can hold 4-6 drives seem to cost twice what a 4 TB USB-3 archive drive
costs, so a Pi-4, a USB-3 hub, and two of those wrapped up with rubber
bands in a shoebox would be cheaper.

Cardboard, Ugh....
An old PC case will have plenty of decent air flow, and be able to hold a proper PSU and if tall enough, many drives. Available for free, if you look around. Obviously big, but so are shoeboxes...
With one of these drives, why not install a Pi at a trusted friend's place for your off-site backup, and do one vice versa for his backups. CrashPlan is such as system.
Or have a trailing USB cable permanently attached, so that once in a while you can plug in either a mobile phone or a camera, and have the contents of that device backed up (while also charging the battery?)
Anytime I'm seeing folks on YouTube messing with PATA IDE/SCSI Retro hardware, they seem to be adding modern adaptors to plug- in SD memory cards, so maybe that ship has sailed ...
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Adrian C