[Thinkpad] Looking for h/w recommendation pls

[Jeffrey Race]

I have 1 TB SATA drive I'd like to use as NAS on my LAN.
Can I buy just the enclosure with software to make it appear
as a mapped drive? Alternative is to use one of my older
Thinkpads and leave it running with the drive in a USB-
connected enclosure. (Or I could set up a Raspbery Pi;
that's more work but takes less power . . . )

I'll use it as backup running rsync.

Ideas/suggestions/alternatives please?

My thanks for any and all suggestions. Trying to
magnify my options and learn of new techniques/workarounds
Jeffrey Race

[David Ross]

USB2 is slow, so using it in an external USB enclosure will be painful for moving large files regardless of whether you are using a Pi or an old ThinkPad. That might not be an issue for you, depending on what you plan to do with the storage. (For example, incremental backups should be OK once you've done the initial full backup.) If you decide to go that route, I think FreeNas is the most popular software.

If your router has a USB port you can also attach the drive there.

Purpose-built NAS enclosures are pretty cheap these days and will run the disk faster, if that *is* an issue.

Incidentally, both Duplicati and Veeam Agent for Windows are free and lightweight and work easily with network-attached storage and do a really good job of deduplication, meaning that incremental backups are small and fast. You run some pretty old versions of Windows, I don't know how far back these programs support the OS.

David

Post by Jeffrey Race
I have 1 TB SATA drive I'd like to use as NAS on my LAN.
Can I buy just the enclosure with software to make it appear
as a mapped drive? Alternative is to use one of my older
Thinkpads and leave it running with the drive in a USB-
connected enclosure. (Or I could set up a Raspbery Pi;
that's more work but takes less power . . . )
I'll use it as backup running rsync.
Ideas/suggestions/alternatives please?
My thanks for any and all suggestions. Trying to
magnify my options and learn of new techniques/workarounds
Jeffrey Race
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