Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
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maybe a rasberry pi with a 4 SATA ports addon could work, then you can use the pi as a network drive.
However, you'll need to figuresomething out for the power for the drives...
I have no idea how the inside are made, so you can try taking it apart to see for yourself! (don't forget to take picture, so you can reassemble it after ahah)
thanks, yeah I've been looking into the ROCK Pi Dual/Quad SATA HAT but it doesn't seem super available in the US. I'd also have to buy a raspberry pi. Could be worth it though
I found this picture, which could be exactly what you could want (I believe it is a Rock Pi SATA HAT ?), of course, now, time to find what hardware can do that for the cheapest!
Yeah that HAT looks pretty sweet, haven't found a place to buy it though.
Power supply of those 3.5" discs will be the main problem, as you can't do that over USB.
Maybe turn it into an ARM cluster enclosure? Most ARM SBCs can fit well into 3.5" HDD slots and the back might have enough space for some 5 port gbit switch and some 5V power wireing to supply the SBCs from a single PSU.
Power supply of those 3.5" discs will be the main problem, as you can’t do that over USB.
Yeah I would have to come up with some other way to power the drives, the OWC enclosure has a power supply, but not sure I could harvest what I need. I'm going to have to open it up and see how useful it might be.
Another thought is this m.2 to sata adapter that I could put in the NUC5. I would still have to figure out power though.
edit: link to adapter https://www.ebay.com/itm/285219307946
