On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 12:25 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > An ordinary PC usually has a few drive bays, allowing room for > improvement, drive swaps, or RAID. Cheap NAS devices are usually > just > single drive. Slightly more expensive ones may be two-drive devices. > Multi-bay NAS devices may cost more than a normal PC, and you may be > locked into their way of doing things, though a good one will make it > easy to swap drives unlike having to disassemble a PC on a workbench.
I agree. I had a NAS about 10 years ago (IOmega I think) and both drives eventually failed and had to be replaced. It had a wimpy CPU and not much RAM, so I junked it, bought an external dock for my desktop PC, inserted the rescued drives from the NAS, and have been happy ever since. YMMV of course, but a desktop PC can easily outperform the majority of home NAS devices without even noticing the load. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
