I was thinking on buying a 2-4 bay HDD powered enclosure as a NAS for my mini pc, since I already have that, and buying or building a full-fledged diy NAS seems a bit expensive.

I want to hear some opinions from you guys, since it seems using this method is a mixed area from the selfhosted pros. I would be hoping that by using a powered enclosure, that would alleviate or solve the USB port overcharging issue, which have appeared in my mini pc when trying out an external HDD with a normal sata to usb converter.

Did you have any experiences with a setup like this one?

  • @entropicdriftEnglish
    3•1 day ago

    I use an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux with a USB 3.0 4-bay enclosure. Works great so far.

    • PrivateNoobOPEnglish
      1•22 hours ago

      And what’s your experience with it? Is the data transfer speed fast enough for you? Where do you do backups?

      • @entropicdriftEnglish
        1•18 hours ago

        I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

        The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.