Removing hard drives from a home server

Question

Do it yourself

There is a need to move a couple of hard drives 5 meters outside the home server at HOME. Like he can be no more than a meter. There is an option for a small disk shelf with an optical interface, but I did not find something like that. All at least unitovye on a bunch of disks. And I need a maximum of 4 disks.
What can be done? Do not offer NAS - there must be a direct connection to the server.

Answer 1

Make a box for FreeNAS (OpenFiler, Nexenta Community Edition), collect disks in RAID on it, create a volume, and give this volume to your server via iSCSI. Two-four-port gigabit cards cost quite reasonable money, but most likely you won't even score a gigabyte with normal work.

Answer 2

maybe DAS?

Answer 3

By the way, as a budget option, purchase hp microserver + freeNas (or Openfiler). Or BU disk shelf.

Answer 4

Now you can easily assemble a low-noise server - a low TDI processor, a mother for it and a high-quality cooler will fit into the top 10 IMHO.

Answer 5

I now have a small pisyuk on an atom from a local assembler, its noise level is so low that when I turned it on for the first time, I did not realize that it was turned on and working until I saw the post screen.

Answer 6

Why not take the server out of the room and send it to the room with gigabit?