[kwlug-disc] storage suggestions

[William Park]

Doesn't your Synology have USB port?  You could use that to "extend" storage.  If not, some cheap laptop with USB3 port, or lastest Raspberry Pi with USB3.--William

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  On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:15 PM, CrankyOldBugger<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:   I'm finding that I'm constantly having to clean out my Synology NAS's drive space as it keeps getting filled up these days.  So I'm trying to come up with some sort of secondary storage solution..
I don't want to buy new HDDs for the Synology as there's 4 bays, (currently occupied by 4TB Seagates in each bay) since going to 4 x 8TB could run me around $1,200 and I've used up my hardware budget for the next decade already...
I don't want to build a complete desktop style computer and throw a bunch of drives into it.  I just don't have a lot of real estate for another desktop..
I don't want to buy another NAS like the Synology or QNAP (they're great devices; I just can't justify the budget right now).
Ideally I'd like something that's just a toaster size ethernet-connected box that I can throw some old HDDs into, and ultimately something that's smart enough to run FreeNAS on it.  It has to be able to run Linux, for obvious reasons....  I imagine that I would use this box for backups, although that's not set in stone yet.  The Synology handles my video streaming duties well enough for now.

Worse-case scenario, I do have an ancient Windows Home Server headless device that I could try to load FreeNAS on to (assuming it still works), although loading FreeNAS on to a drive on a different system then migrating it over to the headless box sounds a bit challenging. The WHS only has fast-ethernet so it would probably be restricted to slower duties like backups...

Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've been poking around Amazon and just not seeing something that I like.


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