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submitted 10 months ago by jaykay to c/[email protected]

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Hi! I have a NUC with 250GB SSD inside. It’s running everything from pihole through arr apps to 3d printing frontend. Since my family is starting to think “hey that’s a good idea can I use it too”, 250GB is starting to be not enough.

Do you have any recommendations? A NAS? A DAS? Something else?

For now, I’m downloading and deleting shows/movies cos I don’t have space obviously, but eventually I’d like to keep some that are cool. Or backup photos to it and stuff.

Thanks :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SSDs draw less power than HDDs, first of all. But regardless, if the enclosure chipset is poor quality and/or hasn't been designed to run 24/7 it can overheat and disconnect intermittently or permanently.

And that's without going into the quality of the USB and drivers on the host.

You either lucked out or you've been having silent file corruptions going for 10 years without realizing. What filesystems do you have on those disks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use an expensive JBOD USB/e-SATA BOX to host 4 ssd's (nowadays, but those has been hdd's until 2022) connected via usb3. The box has a huge fan too.

I think the issue is not USB itself but how cheap you go with your enclosure...

No, can confirm no data corruption. Can I be 100% sure? No I cannot of course.

I use EXT4, which again never gave me issues whatsoever. So far.