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   On 23 Jun, Lars Poulsen  wrote:   
      
   > I looked it up. It seems to be an ARM CPU in an enclosure that has only room   
   > for one drive. For a NAS, I would be looking for an enclosure that could   
   > hold 4 drives, but those are getting rarer. The secondhand market has   
   > plenty of small form factor desktops with low-end x86 or AMD64   
   > processors and room for 2 drives for less than what this costs.   
      
   I have a couple of old x86 boxes lying around which could be put to this   
   type of use, but they're fairly large, and space is limited. Possible   
   solution for future consideration though.   
      
   > If you need to put the drives externally in a stack of USB enclosures,   
   > you might as well use an RPI4 in a CanoKit box.   
      
   > I don't get the attraction of this type of device.   
      
   I've been using this one for years - the internal SATA HDD is only about   
   200GB, and the USB drives I mentioned are connected to the USB ports. It's   
   ideal for my simple requirements for keeping back-ups of the various   
   devices on my LAN, but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Raspberry Pi   
   OS, I have limited (and not recent) experience running various flavours of   
   Linux on x86 boxes, but rather feeling my way with this Pi 5.   
      
   When I have a bit more time I'll look in to connecting the two USB drives   
   to the Pi5 and see if I can use rsynch to make a manual backup for the   
   time being.   
      
   Thanks for the suggestions.   
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