From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28302158020 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 23:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31FD8E091A; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 23:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw1-f174.google.com (mail-yw1-f174.google.com [209.85.128.174]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3F9CE08FB for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 23:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw1-f174.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-3b5d9050e48so32787947b3.2 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:38:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=pOdtGceljBSgpvecuV+zLTsEaU2E+6N0ao5msGgXskQ=; b=Y8oND5mK93mdqKZRbl4DvVh7sgoFC0oUi+ohrgxOsjJQoTqImJbBoX87bHJa91Xvfe SIpcY93vjQrieuUn8k2XK4jpWWATF1h/fKNt3WU+GS6A57794USJIWM7k+i4/SowMEeF y2pkaf4Fi5BBkZoV/LiiEsdWaJG5dM2JVcQZA933MJTzcgsUgjy1LGRuuZY63xZQTuy7 TC6fjze2ZUk6672qiPZ9tXcXGhpZGfLE5w8O8CpZDFI8HYrsujBvuwQTAh+nKFgBzDsF 86oIVhs9hCRWnzno4XBllYyRwKW2cgfbU8JmRCS0Z3npoSsi7JLCFn8dRPYHNunHwr/p aR2A== X-Gm-Message-State: ANoB5plg+QhaCm+ihZC4RVN1Qcd8hMqDDO/3nFro/ltTemfH+tRpYJh6 vQRhZ4lZ1zB1BNA0vxg9/PCrkjthD3nyddhxU7kMl2xbbVU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA0mqf5fotWeYVnQ13EDGulbPI2CcQ6xopmoJ4dBicD7Myd+9BUrxcC/fX8FdhM3MT8Lk6htygKER1DSsttH7zhDhWU= X-Received: by 2002:a05:690c:b90:b0:3b1:eee3:32a with SMTP id ck16-20020a05690c0b9000b003b1eee3032amr1243061ywb.325.1670542716970; Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:38:36 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9407e524-2226-6ba9-dd7f-bac635d083e3@gmail.com> <015b49e3-a7d4-45f0-1ffd-b9be97215a54@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <015b49e3-a7d4-45f0-1ffd-b9be97215a54@gmail.com> From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 18:38:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 0b0cad6d-e581-4a9f-8400-dc4a72ac7c78 X-Archives-Hash: f933dce0722a5cc3ccfc853792d22d1e On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM Dale wrote: > > One thing I like about the Raspberry option, I can upgrade it later. I > can simply take out the old, put in new, upgrade done. If I buy a > prebuilt NAS, they pretty much are what they are if upgrading isn't a > option. Some of the more expensive ones may be upgradable, maybe. The NAS gets you a nice box. The nice box means fixed capacity. I just use USB3 external hard drives. They're cheaper and easy to interface. USB3 also has been less likely to give me ATA interface errors compared to SATA. > I just wonder, could I use that board and just hook it to my USB port > and a external power supply and skip the Raspberry Pi part? I'd bet not > tho. ;-) Not that one, but USB3-SATA interfaces exist and aren't that expensive. You can also get nice little enclosures. You can have as many hard drives as you want on a PC that way, or whatever the USB3 limit is. -- Rich