I’ve been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I’m thinking there are probably parts that don’t matter if you buy used vs new but I’m curious what your thoughts are?
I’ve been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I’m thinking there are probably parts that don’t matter if you buy used vs new but I’m curious what your thoughts are?
For me, everything is on the table for used with a minor exception for spinning drives which I tend to buy new. There are some good recycling companies out that that have killer deals on enterprise setups. A lot of those also have enterprise activated idracs (dell hardware anyway)for example which saves me time running up and down stairs trying to get it setup or investigate why I can’t ssh into it.
For example, I picked up a dell 720xd from a recycling company for $450 shipped - 256gb ram, 20 cores(40threads), enterprise idracs, 12x4tb sas, and 2x 300gb ssd for os. Is it louder than a setup I could build, absolutely. But I needed something to replace my Amazon drive for my photos and this was way cheaper than adding 10 more drives to my main nas setup(I would have done >14tb drives in there)