d-cent

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Are there any good DAS out there? (alien.top)
 

I have been searching and learning a bunch but there doesn't really seem to be any good methods that I can find.

You would think more companies would be putting out DAS considering the capabilities of USB3.2 and Thunderbolt. I have been looking for a quality DAS but almost all of them don't have built in hardware RAID. I don't really trust software RAID. Mostly rebuilding if the software crashes or my hardware crashes. Even if I was ok going with soft RAID, almost every model has a huge flaw.

It feels like getting a NAS is the only real way to go and basically just using it as an ethernet DAS for my server. It just seems like a waste of a processor. Should I just build a DAS with 4 Bay Rack? Then I have to find a place to mount a PSU and tidy up one of those PCIe to 4 Sata boards and PCIe to USB board as well as a couple fans.

Is there a good cheap enclosure to just install 4 HDD, a couple boards and a PSU? Am I missing some other easy option? It just feels like the market now is to buy a NAS and use it as a DAS.

Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[โ€“] d-cent@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to jump over to it. I have been struggling with Nginx and Apache and I am afraid I have made a mess of things. I am installing on an old Mac Mini with Mac OS so I don't really have a way to isolate and remove Nginx and Apache and I have a feeling if I try Caddy I will get some interferences.

Why is starting with Self-hosting so daunting? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[โ€“] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I am right there with you. I am a Mechanical Engineer and if we tried putting out a product with the limited documentation that these come out with, we would be taken off the project. ME projects have documentation meant to guide a 10 year old through the process and details. The documentation would fill a 3" 3ring binder.

Yet these network products are released with 1 page of upper level description of the product. Yeah I already know what the product already does, that's why I got it, how about the actual documentation?