Hello lemmy, I have currently 4x4tb hard drives but they are almost full. Im thinking of getting a 8 bay das so i can put extra drives in it. I have looked around but wasnt able to find something that looked good, does someone have recommandations? Thanks for your time!

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    8 months ago

    I doubt many are looking for 8-bay DAS, anything larger than 4-bay you are probably better off with NAS. Many DAS have limited RAID support, which can make having more drives more risky.

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      8 months ago

      I’ll take an 8 bay NAS with Thunderbolt/USB 4 for the best of both worlds. My only problem is that I’m very sensitive to sound and I don’t want spinning hard drives in my office.

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      8 months ago

      I doubt many are looking for 8-bay DAS, anything larger than 4-bay you are probably better off with NAS. Many DAS have limited RAID support, which can make having more drives more risky.

      But i already have a computer that works well enough, isnt it a waste to completly replace it with a nas?

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          8 months ago

          That would replace the computer with the NAS though and is not true for a server that you’d want to extend, right?

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              8 months ago

              No worries I phrased that quite weird I think.

              A NAS is only more power efficient if the additional power of a full server is not used. If for some reason the server is still needed than the NAS will be additional power consumption and not save anything.

              (for example I run some quite RAM and compute heavy things on my server which no stock NAS could handle I think).