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HDD Solution for Dell Optiplex 7050 MFF

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Hi - new user here so please go lightly :-)

I've recently repurposed a Dell Optiplex 7050 MFF PC I had laying around to replace an aging NUC running windows and a RPi for Home Assistant. I alsp have a 15 year old Synology NAS which is getting increaingly slower.

My idea is to have everything running on one machine, with unraid and it's working well - VM for HA and containers for my other bits HOWEVER I'm reading alot of storage and USB being a bit no no. Problem is this is the only IO on my hardware.

I'd like to know how much of a no no is the USB route? I could, I guess keep my nas but that would involve an SMB share and not utilise parity etc, plus the NAS is really unresponsive.

I'm hoping someone more experienced than me can help.

For context I am far from a power user, strorage is mainly for media and backup of data on laptops, phone etc.

Thanks in advance!

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