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For those of you who build your own NAS, what are you willing to buy used?

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I’ve been convinced to build my own NAS again instead of going with a Synology and I’m thinking there are probably parts that don’t matter if you buy used vs new but I’m curious what your thoughts are?

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eatingpotatochips@alien.topB
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I bought an entire Synology with drives used, so I guess anything?

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chesser45@alien.topB
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Don’t buy too old a synology or you’ll be shopping on Uzbek electronics websites for caddies like I am.

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Mastasmoker@alien.topB
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I’d be willing to go used on everything except the drives

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skreak@alien.topB
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My entire NAS is used parts, including used enterprise HDD’s. I put the gear through a thermal, memory, and IO stress tests and all checked out. I bought 10 drives when I only needed 8 with assumption that at least 2 would be bad (none of them were and they’ve been in use for > 2 years). Correction - the case was new, I uses a Rosswill rackmount.

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acbadam42@alien.topB
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So many of us use rosewill. Are you using the one that fits the 15 drives. I got that one years ago for about $130 off of Newegg but at one point there were as low as $80 right before the pandemic. Last I looked they were over 200.

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AK1174@alien.topB
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I’d probably buy everything used other than the power supply and drives.

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chaplin2@alien.topB
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And CPU that is old and power consuming!

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