I’ve found an Inspiron with an FX8800P and 1 3.5” slot and a DVD slot. I intend to use it in my 3-2-1 backup with two drives (one hot, one warm) and the third backup in AWS Glacier (inb4 fuck Amazon - it’s cheap). It will also function as a NAS.

Have you placed a 3.5” drive in the 5.25” DVD bay? I understand you may need an adapter. Not sure if I can skip that.

The reason I can’t use a consumer NAS is because I want to power one of the drives off for power, longevity, and I don’t want to use RAID (also they’re quite $$$).

Edit:

Doesn’t look like a dock is necessary…

Yeah so the answer is no

  • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2•15 hours ago

    My only real concern with the whole thing is that there’s no rubber isolators on them which could cause issues longterm.

    The number of times I’ve ran a system with a hard drive just sitting on the floor of the computer without issues…

    • @adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      3•12 hours ago

      the number of years i’ve run usb->sata adapters and had (up to a dozen or so) bare drives laying around and propped up anywhere i could find a spot…