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Comment Win 11 Pro + Hardware RAID6 + 8x6TB hard drives (Score 1) 135

Not a NAS, but I use a self-built computer with Windows 11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU, 64GB RAM, Dell PERC H710P hardware RAID controller, 8 x 6TB Hitachi Enterprise class SATA hard drives. I have the hard drives configured in a hardware RAID6 with no hot spare (I have 1 cold spare) for a total of around 32.7TB of storage space and I boot off of an NVMe drive. I've got the server built in a Fractal Design Define case, the case is sound insulated with 140mm fan mounts (the server is very quiet) and has 8 hard drive mounts, no hot swap backplane so I will have to shut down the server if I ever need to replace a hard drive. I picked up the drives and RAID card used and cheap from Amazon and eBay, the RAID card was around $75 with a good backup battery onboard. I use it as a file server, media server, DLNA server, etc., and used it to encode a lot of my Blu-ray discs when I first set up the server. I've got Hyper-V installed and have actively used it for some work-related virtualization. It's a really nice "server" with 100% uptime, and having a familiar desktop interface with the ability to run whatever software I feel like running is awesome.

Comment Fitting in desktop PCs... (Score 5, Informative) 63

These drives probably have the USB interface soldered directly onto the PC board instead of using a USB-to-SATA adapter plugged onto the drive internally. These aren't normal 2.5" hard drives with SATA power and data connectors. You might be able to remove the drive from it's enclosure and mount it inside a computer, but you will still have to connect it to the computer with a USB cable and not a SATA cable. Western Digital Black external drives (and most likely the other WD product lines) have been this way for a while.

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