If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? (midwest.social)

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Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

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[-] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Buy a cheap Disk shelf the Netapp ds4246 (do not remember the smaller models name) and a cheap used hba (host bus adapter) to plug it into.

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