Lka1988

Right, but asking for 2-4 drive bays…

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A PCI-E expansion board full of M.2 NVME drives might do the trick.

I’d argue for something a bit bigger, physically. The Optiplex SFF systems don’t have a whole lot of interior space for hard drives, in fact the 7050 SFF can only handle a single 3.5", a single 2.5", and a single NVME.

I have an older HP Elitedesk 8300 SFF that can handle 3x 3.5" drives, 2x 2.5" drives, and boot from an M.2 NVMe on a PCIE adapter card (I modded the BIOS). But that’s limited to 3rd gen Intel 🫤

I use Planka pretty regularly to track some of my projects. They just pushed out a release candidate for v2 a few weeks ago, which brought some nice features.

Uploaded your mind to the cloud

planning on running a number of docker containers and a couple of vms.

Just FYI, you can probably do ALL of that on a $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF.

Source: my $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running 3 VMs, 3 LXC containers, and 16 docker containers - not including the multiple containers within the Nextcloud AIO “mastercontainer”. There is plenty of overhead to spare.