I’m working on learning about servers and such but it’s a lot to take in. I’m looking to get a 5tb hard drive and install it into a network attached storage tower. What else would be needed to make this work? Links provided are what I’m thinking
QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless) https://a.co/d/725WsHM
Seagate Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX5000400), Black https://a.co/d/fClqYLT
I honestly thought external drives were just plugged into the case and could be quickly popped out and used as an internal. Someone else provided a really indepth guide for me and this NAS isn’t capable of using jellyfin only plex so the plan is to go with PI and get that working
Some can be. Didn’t check to see if this was one of them. It’s called ‘Shucking’ and there is a niche for it. Personally I don’t think its worth it to go through all that work to research devices, go through all the effort to shuck it (and hope you’re lucky!) just to save a couple bucks. https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/how-to-get-premium-hard-drives-for-cheap-by-shucking-external-drives/