I’ve been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I’m thinking there are probably parts that don’t matter if you buy used vs new but I’m curious what your thoughts are?

  • skreak@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My entire NAS is used parts, including used enterprise HDD’s. I put the gear through a thermal, memory, and IO stress tests and all checked out. I bought 10 drives when I only needed 8 with assumption that at least 2 would be bad (none of them were and they’ve been in use for > 2 years). Correction - the case was new, I uses a Rosswill rackmount.

    • acbadam42@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      So many of us use rosewill. Are you using the one that fits the 15 drives. I got that one years ago for about $130 off of Newegg but at one point there were as low as $80 right before the pandemic. Last I looked they were over 200.