Moving external disks to a DAS?

[alb123]

When I first started experimenting with hosting JF, I had some spare external drives and decided to attach those to store my media; fast forward a couple years later, and now I'm considering using a DAS to make my setup more convenient and take less physical space. Having never used a DAS before, I have a couple questions regarding it, in case anybody here has experience with one:

• If I shuck the hard drives out of their encases and insert them on the DAS, would that work? 
  

• Does the server read the disk the same way it does when plugged externally through the DAS, so I don't have to update fstab?
  
• Would I be able to share all the disks through NFS as I did before when plugged in the DAS also?
  

The external drives in question are 2x 6TB, 1x 10TB, 2x 8TB Western Digital Elements Desktop USB 3.0 external hard drive and the DAS I'm considering getting is a TERRAMASTER D4-320.

Thanks in advance for any response.

Bro...I am in the same exact spot as you, except my hell is quite a bit larger.



That's 214 TB (I think).  C is a 500 GB SSD and D & E are very old 3TB WD Green internal drives.  G thru Z are all WD External HDDs (My Book or Elements).  This is my Jellyfin server Intel i3.  I've been thinking of buying a used big 36 bay Supermicro Server off Ebay and then shuck these puppies.  I also have about four 8 TB and two 10 TB External HDDs that I've removed from this system because it just can't handle any more external USB HDDs in its current configuration.  The servers I've been looking at are between $800-$1100 depending on configuration, of course.

I'm an unhealthy dude living on disability so I'm not exactly rolling in funds which is why I started piecing together the media server the way I did.  I never, in a million years, expected it to get out of control like this.  Luckily, my partner makes great money and encourages my crazy hobbies...she's the best!  With the dual XEON server I figure I could also do quite a few other things with VMs.  I just have A LOT to learn.

You might want to take a peak into those refurbished servers on ebay.  Some come configured for TrueNAS or UnRAID if you're not looking for a full blown Windows or Linux box.  You don't need to spend $1000 either.  For instance, here's a dual XEON server with 128GB RAM, 12 hot-swappable drive bays...just gotta add your own hard drives.  I don't know if this is a good config or good price I just wanted to share something with you, give you something else to think about.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135016153556?_n...BMgPu2z65k



Again...I'm NOT an expert in this stuff as you can clearly tell.  LOL  I just know, for myself, I made a big mistake doing things the way I've been doing them.  I want to do things smarter in the future.  I've already been building a little rack system for my Unifi Networking gear so I'm looking forward to slapping a rack mounted server in that bad boy... 

Good luck!