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Hey, I'm back with more home server questions. :)

I've got a laptop running as my home server. I have previously removed my CD drive to add an HDD caddy for a total of two hard drives - a SATA SSD and a SATA HDD.

Now, I'm running out of storage a little, and I have a spare HDD that I've currently hooked up to my desktop PC that I could connect to my server. What are my options here?

I've found HDD adapters that you can connect via USB. But what are the read/write speeds for these and would they sufficient for a server? Or should I invest in some kinda hard drive bay that allows for multiple hard drives to be slotted into and connected (is that a NAS?)?

Open to any input here, preferably tge cheaper the better.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
AP WiFi Access Point
ISP Internet Service Provider
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PoE Power over Ethernet
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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