Hello lemmy, I have currently 4x4tb hard drives but they are almost full. Im thinking of getting a 8 bay das so i can put extra drives in it. I have looked around but wasnt able to find something that looked good, does someone have recommandations? Thanks for your time!

  • @HerculesOPEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    I doubt many are looking for 8-bay DAS, anything larger than 4-bay you are probably better off with NAS. Many DAS have limited RAID support, which can make having more drives more risky.

    But i already have a computer that works well enough, isnt it a waste to completly replace it with a nas?

    • @AtariDumpEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      The NAS will have a lower power consumption.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•4 months ago

        That would replace the computer with the NAS though and is not true for a server that you’d want to extend, right?

        • @AtariDumpEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          What? I don’t follow sorry

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            No worries I phrased that quite weird I think.

            A NAS is only more power efficient if the additional power of a full server is not used. If for some reason the server is still needed than the NAS will be additional power consumption and not save anything.

            (for example I run some quite RAM and compute heavy things on my server which no stock NAS could handle I think).