Local Network Storage Solution - Hacked

When you do a lot of experiments, depending on your situation a local network shared storage (w or w/o SSD cache) and / or smaller local SSD / NVME usually can cover your needs.

If you google something like "NAS", you will find ridiculously overpriced / underpowered devices, both in B2C and enterprise segments.

All jokes aside, you may find "small" devices for 4 disks starting from US$500-700 with laughable specs (i.e. no 10 Gbit/s ethernet), but with a lot of old proprietary bloatware (i.e. some clunky GUIs not updated for years).

In the "serious" segment - a rack-mounted 12-drive device may cost you north of US$7-10k (luckily with 10 Gbit/s ethernet) . All these prices are without drives. This is totally insane and ridiculous!

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