Preferably with multiple SATA ports or an expansion slot that can take a PCIE card.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve looked at this route before, but worried that it would be a headache to get everything running smoothly. What’s your experience been?

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      Hardest part was mounting everything in my 1U chassis. Using an ATX power supply with the break out board solved a lot of problems. That way the SBC gets 12v, and the sata drives get power at the same time. And you’ve got connectors for fans and stuff. You can use a smaller form factor PSU. I think mine is like 200W but that’s more than enough to power the board, expansion card, fans, and drives.

      On the software side, I just use the Debian based distro “Armbian”. But it looks like you can use others.

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        1 year ago

        Hah, I haven’t even started thinking about mounting problems. Awesome, thanks for this!