Can you think of a use for a load of SAS drives?

[steinooo]

hi all,

I've been tempted to build a homelab as I may be able to get my hands on servers soon, but mainly a tonne of storage in the form of a variety of SAS 2.5" drives.

Is there a technology I could make use of to bundle them all into and maybe try out some of this software raid stuff like Xpenology, Opennas, Unraid etc?

 

[steinooo]

The caddy's will be more use than the drives imo , unless your after capacity just get some cheap SSD's that work with the raid cards.
2.5 SAS are noisy and generally run quite hot. Not ideal in a home environment.

Oh. Thought there'd be a way of experimenting (labbing) large storage pools.

I get your point about heat and noise, but I have a garage