Kaffeemaschine

Using my current disks and the flash stick would lessen the pricetag a lot into the affordable range. I wasn't aware of this possibility. Thank you!

Yes, i am aware of that. That is why I want to upgrade it to a proper system as soon as I can. But right now, i am stuck with my solution and was hoping for some guidance given my overall situation. That is why i explained it so extensively

Hello everyone! After I finished my bachelor's degree, i finally had some money and got myself into unraid. Since my job was demanding a lot of time, I only slowly got into everything. I settled for an amateur setup that working really well for me. I will show it below. Now I am studying my masters, again a bit short on money, but with more energy to fool around with my server. I set up my own Nextcloud following spaceinvaderone's guide and want to use it as a cloud-alternative for my family and friends so they don't have to rely on big companies that might not have their best interest in mind. My current setup seems very prone to multiple problems that might harm the data or the disks, which would be devastating for me. I am using a HP T630 thin-client with an AMD GX-420GI and 8GB RAM. My storage currently are 2 external HDD USB drives with 4TB each, one as partiy, one as storage. Basically, this whole thing stands next to my bed with the drives lying in my nightstand. Also I know I have to move into another house in around 8 months. Now coming to my crossroad: I could either get an enclosure or drive bay for my current and future drives, so they are protected again falling down etc, plug it into the USB-ports of my Thinclient, costing probably around 50€-150€. OR I could think about getting a proper setup, using something like In-Win IW-MS04-01 with an Asrock N100M and be settled for a long while, costing around 600-700€, depending on the HDDs. I honestly have little knowledge about storage setups, I am a IT Security master's student, but this stuff simply was never part of my curriculum. I have 2 questions and hope you can help me: 1.: If I go for route 1, how easy would it be to migrate everything to a route 2 setup in 1-2 years? 2.: Which route would you prefer and for what reasons? Recommendations for possible route 1 or 2 components would be amazing and thanks in advance. Always happy to learn stuff.