On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One thing I like about the Raspberry option, I can upgrade it later. I > can simply take out the old, put in new, upgrade done. If I buy a > prebuilt NAS, they pretty much are what they are if upgrading isn't a > option. Some of the more expensive ones may be upgradable, maybe.
The NAS gets you a nice box. The nice box means fixed capacity. I just use USB3 external hard drives. They're cheaper and easy to interface. USB3 also has been less likely to give me ATA interface errors compared to SATA. > I just wonder, could I use that board and just hook it to my USB port > and a external power supply and skip the Raspberry Pi part? I'd bet not > tho. ;-) Not that one, but USB3-SATA interfaces exist and aren't that expensive. You can also get nice little enclosures. You can have as many hard drives as you want on a PC that way, or whatever the USB3 limit is. -- Rich
