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For those of you who build your own NAS, what are you willing to buy used? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I'm thinking there are probably parts that don't matter if you buy used vs new but I'm curious what your thoughts are?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For me, everything is on the table for used with a minor exception for spinning drives which I tend to buy new. There are some good recycling companies out that that have killer deals on enterprise setups. A lot of those also have enterprise activated idracs (dell hardware anyway)for example which saves me time running up and down stairs trying to get it setup or investigate why I can’t ssh into it.

For example, I picked up a dell 720xd from a recycling company for $450 shipped - 256gb ram, 20 cores(40threads), enterprise idracs, 12x4tb sas, and 2x 300gb ssd for os. Is it louder than a setup I could build, absolutely. But I needed something to replace my Amazon drive for my photos and this was way cheaper than adding 10 more drives to my main nas setup(I would have done >14tb drives in there)