I noticed I didn’t post this in the MiniLab community, so here it is again! Didn’t change anything on the hardware since.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/74770

Been planning to migrate from my Supermicro monolith server for a while and finally finished the migration. Red thing is opnsense on an APU engine, Lenovos run a proxmox cluster, below is a mini PC with attached JBOD running TrueNAS.

Next step is to get another shelf for my Raspi and openDTU.

  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Is that Olmaster thing an enclosure connected to one of the computers by (normally internal) SATA cables? I see that they sell enclosure that fit in a 5.25" Bay but hold several 2.5" drives.

    • tofuOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Exactly, it has a single MOLEX and four SATA ports on the backside. The box underneath has it’s lid removed so the cables can go though.

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Thank you.

        You choose to do it this way for easier access to the drives? It doesn’t look like these actually add more SATA capacity itself.

        • tofuOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Not so much for easier access (though it’s great) but because the mini pc’s case can’t fit that many drives.

          I already had it from a former desktop case where I put it in the 5,25" bay and then found the neat rackmount enclosure STL