I’m looking around to see if it’s worth it to buy an off the shelf NAS appliance and every single review has a whole mess of comments like “DAE CHINESE COMPANY CCP”
like motherfucker you live in burger land shut the fuck up
PS: can anyone recommend an inexpensive NAS appliance that I can throw an open source NAS OS on to serve up a few mismatched hdd I have kicking around?
I’ve always gone with a hotswap enclosure connected to an old raspberry pi - or whatever computer I can scavenge - over USB. Probably not the most performant but I don’t use them as network mounts so its w/e.
Regarding mix-matched drives: just extend them manually with LVM and don’t fuss with anything like zfs or RAID. If you’ve got an SSD in there you can use it as a cache with LVM.