from alex_02@infosec.pub to hardware@infosec.pub on 05 Nov 2023 20:38
https://infosec.pub/post/4556891
I do apologize if I don’t fully understand everything including terminology, but I’ve realized I probably should try to set up some sort of NAS and the hardware I would like eventually is going to cost me around 300$~ not including the proper harddrives. At the moment I cannot really buy everything I need, but I do have an Odroid XU4 with a heatsink that I bought a while ago, so I could take a look at it cuz I was looking for affordable alternatives to raspberry pis.
I also have a lot of harddrives lying around that I collected over the years, since my broke ass doesn’t like throwing things out in case I can use them for something else.
I was wondering if this could be possible for a very temporary setup, and I was thinking raid-z2 or zfs which I read in an article when I was trying to read up on this a little bit. Problems I already see is power and harddrives failing, so I think some sort of cold backups might be needed.
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Have you thought about how in the world you’d hook hard drives up to that thing? There’s no SATA connectivity. Worst case scenario you could always do some massive USB hub with adapters, but that seems like a hack. (Disclaimer: I am actually…currently doing this, because I happened across a bunch of laptop drives and USB 3 adapters – it’s not pretty, but I did it so I could learn how to run a ZFS-based raid.)
A while ago I bought a USB to SATA adapter off of Amazon and there is probably something similar for multiple drives.
There isn’t. There exist such things for PCIe - which I plan on doing to one of my chromeboxes with an open M-key PCIe port. But such a thing does not exist for USB.
A docking station like this one from newegg can probably work: www.newegg.com/…/1B0-0003-000F8
I stand corrected then! Reviews say that the power supply on it is not enough to spin up 4 drives simultaneously, so be aware of that particular issue with this item.
Someone mentioned they used that one with ZFS without any problems…