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It's time to get some storage for the homelab. I could get a Synology, but I'd quite like to build my own using ZFS.

However it seems hard (or my Google-fu sucks) to find good, reasonably priced 4 bay JBODs. Most of what I can find either looks very cheap or is almost as expensive as a Synology.

Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could buy an old 1u server on eBay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It'll have to live in my office, and my experience with most rack mount servers is that they are pretty noisy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They can be. I have a supermicro 2u server that has a 12 disk backplane that I stripped of its original mobo and fans and put in my own gear. Its pretty quiet once you replace all of the stock fans with noctua.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They aren't usually terribly noisy and you can control the fans through the emc/idrac/etc. I used to keep mine on my desk or entertainment stand and put a TV on it lol