I’m looking to make a new PC, and I’ve been left with two options.
- Make a larger ATX build, plenty of storage for the hoarding?
- Make that sleek ITX that I have been eyeing up and just purchase a cheap used workstation and fill it with drives?
For my needs it doesn’t need to be left on 24/7 so I’m not concerned with power consumption of the older Xeons, and currently I store everything on external drives which is fine but it would be nice to pop it all in one box, then back up. If you think the used workstation is a good option, any recommendations and one that can hold a fair few drives?
If you don’t need it to be on your network and you don’t need it to be on 24/7 and you don’t need any running server services why not use a larger external enclosure? You could even get a 10 bay.
I like my SFF paired with externals for a not-always-powered-on archive and backup. I don’t think I’ll build a big tower PC ever again.
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