Other How would you build your own NAS?

I built my NAS with a full size Antec tower with six drive bays.

My SuperMicro board supports six SATA including the optical drive so I have six WD Red drives in ZFS2 config and booting from a thumb drive.

I had the six in stock, but in retrospect I should have used larger drives for this movie server, as I am already out of space.

XigmaNAS V12.x works perfectly so I never upgraded to newer versions.
 
hruodr said:
Commercial NAS systems have compact cases, but their CPU does not allow to install the OS you want. And they are expensive.
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You can buy consumer-grade used NAS boxes like ccammack mentioned for relatively fair prizes. A few days ago I bought the predecessor of that box that ccammack points to (used) and AFAICT it's semi-professional hardware. No ECC-RAM, no battery-backed storage controller, but all else is more than reasonably good quality; the case is of excellent quality, 2.5 mm alloy, I can stand on it (65 kg).
hruodr said:
I would be happy to have a "2 bay docking station" with power supply and 2 esata outputs, no nas,
just connect through sata when I want to save something. But does that exist?
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These devices are called DAS Direct Attached Storage. I search with the words "2-bay HDD SATA plug" on a well-known internet auction platform and get a plethora of results. Whether you're looking for new or used equipment, there's a huge selection in both cases.
 
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