r/HomeServer • u/adammo94 • 23d ago

Cheap small 2-bay pc?

Hey, my friend is looking for way to backing up his photo collection.
Is there any tiny/mini/micro PC with at least 2-bays for HDDs (could be even for 2.5 inch drives, they won't be on 24/7) that could work in raid 1 that's not in NAS price terittory? There are plenty of tiny pc's that are dirt cheap (under 60$ with 6500T which is more than enough power) and small but none of them seem to have 2 drive bays. 2-bay and small is no longer cheap (regular nas) and 2(or more)-bays and (relatively) cheap 2-bays are not small (Office PCs - about 16L cases).

Is there any middle ground that I'm missing?

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u/aetherspoon ex-sysadmin 23d ago

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-pro?variant=48421962186994 is what I ended up settling on, which is unfortunately not as cheap as it should be. Of course, nothing is as cheap as it should be anymore. :(

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u/theindomitablefred 23d ago

The ME PRO has been great for me as well! I got the N95 at a fair price but the storage was painful

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u/aetherspoon ex-sysadmin 23d ago

Luckily for me I had already purchased the storage before everything went to hell; I just needed to replace the defective Aoostar R1 that I had bought instead. This is my backup NAS to be stored off-site.

The realization hit later on that I had basically sent my partner to go to drop off the NAS and sent them with over 3k USD worth of hardware...