I'm working on learning about servers and such but it's a lot to take in. I'm looking to get a 5tb hard drive and install it into a network attached storage tower. What else would be needed to make this work? Links provided are what I'm thinking

QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless) https://a.co/d/725WsHM

Seagate Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX5000400), Black https://a.co/d/fClqYLT

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[–] LifeOfChance 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly thought external drives were just plugged into the case and could be quickly popped out and used as an internal. Someone else provided a really indepth guide for me and this NAS isn't capable of using jellyfin only plex so the plan is to go with PI and get that working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some can be. Didn't check to see if this was one of them. It's called 'Shucking' and there is a niche for it. Personally I don't think its worth it to go through all that work to research devices, go through all the effort to shuck it (and hope you're lucky!) just to save a couple bucks. https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/how-to-get-premium-hard-drives-for-cheap-by-shucking-external-drives/