Hi Guys,
I have 6 hard drives in my pc and recently added nvme which which caused 2 of my SATA connections to become unavailable (I understand it's normal and has something to do with PCI lanes) .
So I'm looking to take 2 of the hard drives to an external enclosure, looking for 4 bay station.
I'm not sure if I need NAS or not, I don't think I have eSata in my PC (biostar z97we hi-fi motherboard) , and I do think I need faster option then USB3, I was thinking, if possible, connecting the enclosure directly to the secondary ethernet port on my PC... possible?
I'm not going to run games from these hard drives, probably just movies (up to 4k) with plex (installed on my pc, no need to install on NAS), pictures, docs, etc...
What would you recommend? I've worked with Synology a little bit at work, but I'm not sure if I actually need all these features, at the end of the day I just need to be able to access the HD from my pc as fast as possible , I rather not have anything pointing to the internet (no cloud or anything) , just local network...
Rather not spend more then $600, but can be flexible going over.
Thanks