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From: Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Raspberry NAS, anyone?
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:50:52 +0000
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On 18/01/2025 14:57, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> I have a shelf with IDE/PATA and SATA drives from 200GB and up, that I have
> not had the heart to throw out. Would it be worth the trouble to find an
> enclosure and build a NAS out of them? Probably not. The enclosures that
> can hold 4-6 drives seem to cost twice what a 4 TB USB-3 archive drive
> costs, so a Pi-4, a USB-3 hub, and two of those wrapped up with rubber
> bands in a shoebox would be cheaper.

Cardboard, Ugh....

An old PC case will have plenty of decent air flow, and be able to hold 
a proper PSU and if tall enough, many drives. Available for free, if you 
look around. Obviously big, but so are shoeboxes...

With one of these drives, why not install a Pi at a trusted friend's 
place for your off-site backup, and do one vice versa for his backups. 
CrashPlan is such as system.

Or have a trailing USB cable permanently attached, so that once in a 
while you can plug in either a mobile phone or a camera, and have the 
contents of that device backed up (while also charging the battery?)

Anytime I'm seeing folks on YouTube messing with PATA IDE/SCSI Retro 
hardware, they seem to be adding modern adaptors to plug- in SD memory 
cards, so maybe that ship has sailed ...

-- 
Adrian C