Antares

Thank you! I appreciate the response. It's reassuring to hear the setup itself should work just fine. That was what I was afraid of, yeah. I estimate we're not going to need more than 8TB of storage any time soon, let alone over 12TB (if we decide to expand it down the line). I've seen some posts about the expansion card specifically for the MS-01, but the heat issues did indeed make cautious. I hope with just the default three M.2 slots seated, we won't be running in thermal issues. I'm looking forward ordering the parts then and setting it all up!

Heya everyone! I've been in the market for a NAS/homeserver and have already got a license. I've messed around with home servers before, but that was years ago. Now, I'm looking for something more serious, as more people will be using it. After doing some research, I'm considering getting the following: Minis Forum MS-01 (i5 12600H) 3x 4TB NVMe SSDs 1x 2230 NVMe SSD (exclusively for HexOS) instead of the wifi/BT card 1x32GB DDR5 (SODIMM) @ 5.600MT/s We'll be using this as a back-up server for project files (mostly Photoshop) as well as a media server for entertainment (Jellyfin). After reading the documentation, we opted for three drives as you can't later on expand the array when opting for two drives. If required, I expect a PCIe to M.2 adapter to work for adding the fourth drive. If I understand correctly, you can't install HexOS on the array itself, so for that we'd opt omitting the wifi card in favour of a 2230 NVMe SSD. I'm aware it's not the most cost efficient build, but size and power consumption outweighs budget in our case. Do you think this is a sane build? I think it should work just fine, right?