Hi there,

What SFF machines do you recommend for a server to basically run opnsense (with a 4 port expansion NIC) and a bunch of extra disks to serve as a NAS? I was looking through Thinkcentre m720, m800 et al. I believe these allow for up to 3 disks

I know usually you’d run opnsense on a dedicated machine, but I’m a bit constrained on space so am trying to fit all in one. I don’t want to stream Linux ISOs on this NAS just to store my own files.

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    4 months ago

    It’s not perfect, but Goop is some magical stuff - only takes a couple blobs and it will never come loose on its own. Great thing is you can easily remove it, it’s like thick rubber cement. Just swapped out drives yesterday.

    I wouldn’t do this in a business environment, but it’s my box - no one else needs to work on it.

    This SFF can support two 2.5" drives, since it has a cdrom. There may be a proper drive mount if I took out the CD.

    An option could be an add-on card for M2 drives. The card is cheap, but M2 drives aren’t.

    There’s also add-on cards for SATA drives. I’m using one in another box, but originally bought it for the SFF.