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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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For those of you who build your own NAS, what are you willing to buy used? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've purchased almost everything used except for the case (using a Fractal Design Define 7 XL and Fractal Design R5).

Used/retired enterprise hardware has virtually zero market, so it's dirt cheap.

I'm using Dell Precision motherboards and Intel Xeon CPUs in both of my main production servers because each motherboard/CPU combo ran about $30 each.

For hard drives specifically I almost always buy used, but I always buy enterprise/NAS drives (HGST DC, Seagate Exos, and Western Digital Red Plus to name a few).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I am going to have the Define 7 XL case for a long, long time. It is built like a tank.