Wait. You build a new one every -year-?! How does one establish the reliability of the hardware (particularly the aliexpress motherboard), not to mention data retention, if its maximum life expectancy is 365 days?

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SirFatty 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How else is one to get the clicks?

	▲	cube00 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Plus the commission from the undisclosed Amazon affiliate links in the post. They're tagged for the post and year so must be worth it to go to that trouble rather then using generic tag for the whole blog. tag=diyans2024-20, tag=diynas2025-20,tag=diynas2026-20

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p1necone 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks like they built a new NAS, but kept using the same drives. Which given the number of drive bays in the NAS probably make up a large majority of the overall cost in something like this.

Edit: reading comprehension fail - they bought drives earlier, at an unspecified price, but they weren't from the old NAS - I agree, when lifetimes of drives are measures in decades and huge amounts of tbw it seems pretty silly to buy new ones every time.

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throwaway2037 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is the funniest edit have read in while.

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adastra22 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

MB and other elements are more concerning than the drives.

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zdragnar an hour ago | parent [-]

For system failure, yes, but not if data retention and recovery is your primary concern.

When building a device primarily used for storing personal things, I'd much prefer to save money on the motherboard and risk that failing than skimping on the drives themselves

	▲	embedding-shape 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Eh, cheap motherboards aren't a panacea that can't hurt the rest of the hardware, I personally don't skimp on motherboards, and would much rather skimp on the drives themselves as I have redundancy and 1-2 drives failing wouldn't hurt too much. And data retention is my top priority. Motherboards have fried connected hardware before, poor grounding/ESD protections, firmware bugs together with aggressive power management, wiring weirdness and power related faults have broken people's drives before. What I've never heard about is a drive breaking something else in a system, but broken motherboards have taken friends with them more than once.