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cheapest NAS Latest update: I wanted to replace my old trusty 'router' (with an attached HDD)--that was not working as a router, but as a network drive after flashing OpenWRT onto it--I wanter to replace it with an SBC+HDD combo. This new device should not only preserve all the services the old one provided (samba, git, rsyncd, a dnf repo), but also perform faster, for having a potato instead of a CPU, the ex-router struggled with rsync over ssh &, being gravely RAM limited, choked when I did 'git push' commits containing binaries > 15MB.

This new device should not only preserve all the services the old one provided (samba, git, rsyncd, a dnf repo), but also perform faster, for having a potato instead of a CPU, the ex-router struggled with rsync over ssh &, being gravely RAM limited, choked when I did 'git push' commits containing binaries > 15MB. ItemPrice, €CommentSBC20HDD enclosure123A Power Supply5Micro-USB cable34 bolts, 12 nuts0I think the ones I found are older than meTTL to USB dongle3Optional, the board has an HDMI outputTotal43(I didn't include an HDD in the table, for I presume everyone has a couple of them lying around.) When I bought the HDD enclosure, I didn't read the description carefully & thought it was going to be a small plastic container for 2.5-inch drives, but when the package arrived, it turned out to be a box for 3.5-inch ones.

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