You have SATA or SAS to pick from. The CPU requirements for a storage server are not high. On a typical ATX board you have motherboard SATA and can put SAS controllers in the spare PCIe slots.

My first "NAS" was two 22TB hard drives in a ZFS pool on my motherboard SATA

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sgt 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There should be more sites like diskprices. So refreshing to see no styling, no cookie banners, just pure information.

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dapperdrake 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ATA (SATA), SCSI (SAS), and NVM (NVMe).

	▲	Brian_K_White 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		no. just sata & sas. There is no nvme spinning drive and flash loses bits just from sitting, it's not archival. flash is good for working not for storing.