It’s time to get some storage for the homelab. I could get a Synology, but I’d quite like to build my own using ZFS.

However it seems hard (or my Google-fu sucks) to find good, reasonably priced 4 bay JBODs. Most of what I can find either looks very cheap or is almost as expensive as a Synology.

Any suggestions?

  • Outcide@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’ll have to live in my office, and my experience with most rack mount servers is that they are pretty noisy?

    • Awwab@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      They can be. I have a supermicro 2u server that has a 12 disk backplane that I stripped of its original mobo and fans and put in my own gear. Its pretty quiet once you replace all of the stock fans with noctua.

    • PutangInaMo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They aren’t usually terribly noisy and you can control the fans through the emc/idrac/etc. I used to keep mine on my desk or entertainment stand and put a TV on it lol