๐งต Looked around a bit at NAS solutions.
What I "need" right now is just a disk on my LAN I can access from within my laser cutting shed (workspace) so I don't have to haul out my USB drive every time.
What people seem to recommend is DIY (Unraid, TrueNAS) which seems to be something I'm alright with but the options explode from there because I gotta price and build the damn thing.
The rest recommend QNAP and Synology, which appear to be fine-ish.
Those might technically work fine...
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@asmcbain for the very very simple solution, some routers have a USB port that lets you plug in an external drive and it'll serve it (SMB probably)
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@greg I have an EdgeRouter 12 (EdgeMAX) from Ubiquiti.
It has a USB 3 port on it, but I'm not sure what that's actually useful for. Trying to find a manual...
I would like something I can continue to expand, in case I do want to get into actually making proper off-desktop backups.
However that might require I finish moving stuff off my existing home server and decommission it since it takes up space where one of these things might go, and it's not in any shape to be useful as a NAS itself.
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@greg Sadly it seems nobody actually knows what the USB port on the ER 12 is for.
The manuals don't mention it at all, and the best I can find is if I want it to do something the drivers for it aren't loaded (by default? at all?).
So that's definitely out as a cheap and fast (but not good) solution.
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@greg I guess I'll add something like the Node 202 case to my "soon" bookmarks folder and wait until I stabilize other things I should deal with first.
(Yeah there's smaller cases than the 202, but it's not too big and gives the most flexibility of picking my own parts for it, especially since I don't need a graphics card if I buy a cheaper Ryzen G processor.)
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@greg Though... (and sorry for all the reply pings) I did have the Ethernet in my house go out to my garage.
So I could have something far larger if I wanted, by putting it out there and just connecting the patch panel for that location to the router. ๐
Great during the winter, not so much during summers in a shrub-steppe zone.
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@asmcbain In the winter you want those heat-generating electronics indoors, to keep you toasty! :)
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