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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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I somehow doubt that.
My last desktop PC has been retasked as an HTPC. The CPU in it requires a graphics card for the system to POST, it's currently mounted in a SFF case with barely room for two 2.5" drives, so it would either make for a shitty, difficult to service, bulky for what it does, power inefficient NAS, or I'd have to buy a new case and CPU.
My current machine is in an mATX mini-tower, there's room for hard disks and the 7700X has integrated graphics so I could haul the GPU out, but it's still kind of bulky for what you'd get.
So I'm gonna keep my Synology in service for a little while longer, then build a NAS from scratch selecting components that would be good for that purpose.
This is my rig, I already bought 20 30TB disks, how do I proceed?
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Your system is a POS.
First choose a version of linux to install on it, then you can proceed.
Atm it's running Proxmox, but I'll go bare metal with a fresh install of Hannah Montana Linux, I want to do things proper this time!
My UnRAID server is an HP desktop machine from 2011. More than capable of running dozens of services without tons of storage.