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?
I use an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux with a USB 3.0 4-bay enclosure. Works great so far.
And what’s your experience with it? Is the data transfer speed fast enough for you? Where do you do backups?
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.