bitsnbytes
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I've got a very high spec laptop not being used which would be ideal to use as a NAS.
My current one an HP Gen8 (running windows 10 pro) works as a NAS pretty good, but I use it more as a NAS. For example lightroom running in the background indexing photos etc. Various cloud services and also VMWare to run a couple of VMs
So it is seriously under powered, the laptop though would be perfectly fine as it has an i7 processor. The only question I have is on storage. My backup needs currently are around 8TB which is spanned across 4 discs in the gen8. I could attach the discs in a JBOD type enclosure I guess can connect via USB. But I think the downside would be I/O as USB doesn't maintain sustained read/write speeds. The ideal solution would be to have the discs internally. But then with a laptop that isn't possible.
Any suggestions?
My current one an HP Gen8 (running windows 10 pro) works as a NAS pretty good, but I use it more as a NAS. For example lightroom running in the background indexing photos etc. Various cloud services and also VMWare to run a couple of VMs
So it is seriously under powered, the laptop though would be perfectly fine as it has an i7 processor. The only question I have is on storage. My backup needs currently are around 8TB which is spanned across 4 discs in the gen8. I could attach the discs in a JBOD type enclosure I guess can connect via USB. But I think the downside would be I/O as USB doesn't maintain sustained read/write speeds. The ideal solution would be to have the discs internally. But then with a laptop that isn't possible.
Any suggestions?