Hello,

I would like to setup a dirty cheap NAS for my local network. I want to spend near the price of no money. I have multiple 3.5’ HDD sata drives and I want to access them from my network. I could place them in my desktop, but it is not on 24/7, and power usage would be too high for this use case. I have RPI Zero W, Radxa Zero 1 (although no idea how am I supposed to put firmware in this thing), and Odroid C2.

What are my options?

  • springs87@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How many drives? You can normally pick up cheap 2nd hand nas boxes for next to nothing

    • sodium111@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I am in the same boat as OP — can you share any advice on where to look, and any examples of different brands, models, or specs to look for to make sure I’m not buying crap?

    • MBle@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would like at least 4 bay. I looked around on Polish auction services, but they cost 2000PLN+ (~500USD)

    • mirx@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What would be examples of this? I always see small, old and overpriced. So I do what OP does. Plug them into my proxmox server or desktop.

      • AnApexBread@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Have you tried using a USB drive bay station with proxmox before?

        I’m debating getting a 5 bay station, plugging it into my proxmox and passing the USB through to an OMV VM but I’m not sure if that will work.

  • OhK4Foo7@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of that joke about looking for a quarter you dropped where the light is better even though you dropped it in the dark. What you need is a miracle. You have 3.5 inch drives and some SBC devices. How do you plan to hook them together without buying some hardware? Your options are slim and next to none as far as I can see. What kind of suggestions are you looking for?

    • MBle@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I do not mean without buying any hardware, what I need is something that is cheap on the second hand market, or something that is cheap on aliexpress

  • brody5895@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some routers have a USB port and nas options in the settings. There are some cheap multi hard drive to USB adapters on eBay that might work.