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DIY NAS

Khoomn
By Khoomn
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So my home server is currently just an old Optiplex 7040 or something with an i7 6700 and 16GB of ram. I want to run a NAS off of it as I have this Buffalo Terastation with 4x 2TB drives running raid 5. The problem with the Terastation is that it doesn't have a cache drive so transfer speeds top out at 3.5 MBps and it only supports SMB 1. My original plan was just to buy some SATA to usb connectors and 3d Print the enclosure (which i can still do) but the problem is that there are 4 different power cables I need to plugin for each drive. Was wondering if there is some sort of PCB or storage bay that doesnt have a raid controller on it so I can plug it in through USB and do software raid through truenas or something.

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