I’ve found an Inspiron with an FX8800P and 1 3.5” slot and a DVD slot. I intend to use it in my 3-2-1 backup with two drives (one hot, one warm) and the third backup in AWS Glacier (inb4 fuck Amazon - it’s cheap). It will also function as a NAS.

Have you placed a 3.5” drive in the 5.25” DVD bay? I understand you may need an adapter. Not sure if I can skip that.

The reason I can’t use a consumer NAS is because I want to power one of the drives off for power, longevity, and I don’t want to use RAID (also they’re quite $$$).

Edit:

Doesn’t look like a dock is necessary…

Yeah so the answer is no

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Too bad you need to use their backup solution.
    I’d much rather use Veeam Backup and Replication instead of their proprietary solution.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      There are solutions for everyone’s parameters, scenarios, and use cases. You just have to pick a horse and ride it.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        And their B2 is too expensive in comparison.

        So I’ll be staying on local storage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯