It’s time to get some storage for the homelab. I could get a Synology, but I’d quite like to build my own using ZFS.
However it seems hard (or my Google-fu sucks) to find good, reasonably priced 4 bay JBODs. Most of what I can find either looks very cheap or is almost as expensive as a Synology.
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Buy a used computer and put 4 drives in it?
I haven’t had a desktop pc in decades and I always forget this is an option. Doh!