I'm attempting to build a cheaper alternative to those prebuilt

>>60731728
I was looking into getting a 4 hard drive USB dock a few months back and was surprised at the ridiculous prices, so I'm also interested in this.

>>60731989
Norco offers 16 and 24 drive racks that would be positively amazing if they weren't 650$ and 400$ respectively.

>>60731728
Possibly put a kit together on mass-drop like they o with keyboards

>>60732043
I'm not familiar with this, could you explain?

>>60731728
>I dont know the difference between NAS and DAS
>I dont know what a SAS expander is

>>60732059
Its a website for mass buys which are where a group of people organize buying either component kits or complete things and since they are buying in bulk you can get better prices.

>>60732070
>I didn't read op
NAS and DAS both require an entire independent computer, which OP is obviously trying to avoid by assembling only case, storage, and power.

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>>60731728
Buy a cheap computer for $50 and put your drives in it. or get a used n40l

It's going to pull more power and it'll be an eyesore, if you dont like it buy the prebuilt one.

That's leleleliterally your options.

>>60732116
>I dont know the difference either

>>60732070
looks like they are trying to make a DAS enclosure without shelling out for a prebuilt

Buy an external SCSI/SAS enclosure, they're perfect for direct attach storage units.

It's literally just a box with a PSU and 5.25" bays that you can jam whatever you want in.

>>60732575
the issue of course being that those enclosures run upwards of 230$ for 4 drive bays

>>60732120
I really hope they make AMD based version of those again.

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>>60732705
This + 16 core + 2 more dimm slots + raid 5

Dreams