I have a
Beelink Ser5 Pro Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 7 5850U(8C/16T, Up to 4.4GHz), 32GB DDR4 RAM 1TB PCIe3.0 x4 SSD Running Spiral Linux (Debian w/ BTRFS Snapshots in GRUB and some other optimizations)
I’ve been using it as a server with mostly docker containers, rarely taxing it’s abilities in any meaningful way. It’s a playground that also runs a few serious/useful apps. Storage is largely on my Synology NAS.
My question is this. I hesitate to store data on the minipc as I seem to be ending up with a broken system fairly frequently when upgrading. NAS seem to be more expensive now and I want to add more storage for Tube Archivist. Are there DAS, Raid Enclosures, USB3 disk enclosures that I can plug in that will manage the disks and such, but don’t pose a challenge to remount if I destroy and reimage the MiniPC?
Anything on a separate disk can be simply remounted after reinstalling the OS. It doesn’t have to be a NAS, DAS, RAID enclosure, or anything else that’s external to the machine unless you want it to be. Actually it looks like that Beelink only supports a single NVMe disk and doesn’t have SATA, so I guess it does have to be external to the machine, but for different reasons than you’re alluding to.