Hey, I’m back with more home server questions. :)

I’ve got a laptop running as my home server. I have previously removed my CD drive to add an HDD caddy for a total of two hard drives - a SATA SSD and a SATA HDD.

Now, I’m running out of storage a little, and I have a spare HDD that I’ve currently hooked up to my desktop PC that I could connect to my server. What are my options here?

I’ve found HDD adapters that you can connect via USB. But what are the read/write speeds for these and would they sufficient for a server? Or should I invest in some kinda hard drive bay that allows for multiple hard drives to be slotted into and connected (is that a NAS?)?

Open to any input here, preferably tge cheaper the better.

  • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you aren’t using the wifi onboard you may be able to remove that M.2 a+e and install a dual sata m.2

    Does depend on motherboard but possible.

    • Druid@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Interesting. I think I’d lack the physical space within the laptop’s case, but I don’t use WiFi on it, so in theory it would probably work

      • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I had a laptop running as a container machine / image processing for frigate using its iGPU.

        Kicked around in my rack without the screen housing, or the bottom housing for a few years. Didn’t have ethernet, so I grabbed a M.2 a+e to Ethernet adaptor which worked a champion.

        Until I let it short out on the tray it was resting on, wasn’t expensive and replaced it with a cheap erying ES motherboard.

      • SteveTech@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There’s some thinner m.2 to PCIe extensions that might work if there’s no space. Then you just use a normal PCIe sata card.