[CK77]

Just found this thread and there is some really useful info in here!

I have a bunch of external HD's all plugged into a USB hub which is attached to my Intel NUC.

Over the years i've had a crash here or there, so i'm also looking into better storage solutions, sadly enough i don't have money for a NAS.
Does anybody have any experience with using storage spaces in Windows 10 to set up a bunch of HD's as one or more storage spaces with RAID5 parity?

I'm not asking on how to set it up, what i would like to get is information from people who use this, does it work well or not?

[wrxtasy]

This is likely the most cost effective Simply DIY NAS type storage going around.

$65 inc. the case you can get something like a ODROID-HC2 : Home Cloud Two (click) that has proven, excellent passive cooling and easy to use OpenMediaVault software. Watch the YouTube video.

[noggin]

This is likely the most cost effective Simply DIY NAS type storage going around.

$65 inc. the case you can get something like a ODROID-HC2 : Home Cloud Two (click) that has proven, excellent passive cooling and easy to use OpenMediaVault software. Watch the YouTube video.

Yes - I used to run a simple secondary shared storage server using the HC1 (which is the 2.5" drive equivalent of the 3.5" HC2)

I've since replaced it with a Raspberry Pi 4B+ 2GB model running Open Media Vault under Raspbian (now called Raspberry Pi OS), alongside TV Headend, with an external USB 3.0 hard drive.  This is a neat PVR Backend + NAS (which I use to store my TV recordings, and some other video I want to make available on a secondary network)