In some cases, in some cases there are still very expensive. Maker Jack Harvest now offers an inexpensive solution for ambitious hobbyists with a 3D printer on his website: a reprint of the Minisforum N5 with five hard disk shafts. For example, data can be distributed to at least three hard drives with RAID 5.
The harvest is aimed specifically at owners of 3D printers from the manufacturer Bambu Labs. The parts required to build up the housing are made available in your own community Platform Makerworld from Bambu Labs.
The Hardware Github
In addition to numerous other hardware projects from the community, you will also find Jack Harvest's files on Makerworld. The blueprints can be opened either in Bambu Studio or in the Open source software -orca -Slicer. You should first check whether the firmware of the BAMBU Lab Lab printers supports pressure orders from the Slicer.
If you want, you can give the individual parts a single “paint” with a colored filament. The files are then sent to their 3D printer.
After the pressure, the work comes. Cables and components must be installed.
(Image: jackharvest.com)
Ecologically with emphasis
Of course, the pressure only contains the housing. The lower chamber is designed for mainboards in the Intel -NUC format with an edge length of 10 cm × 10 cm. Interested parties can remove the board from an old Mini PC and connect them to the NAS. An M.2 slot should be available for the use of five hard drives to connect a SATA adapter. The harvest estimates all components on a shopping list with a purchase value of around 215 US dollars without VAT and costs for a mainboard, including processor and data storage media. This includes additional boards and adapters.
Software does not come from the printer and the harvest does not name. Open source solutions such as the FreeBSD-based Zvault-a fork from Truenas-or OpenMediavault (OMV), which is based on Debian and also runs on commercial NAS.
(Aki)
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This article was originally published in German. It was translated as technical support and editorially checked before the publication.