Thinking about using PC drives inside your NAS? I did and here's how it went.

I always recommend using drives designed for network-attached storage (NAS) inside such an enclosure to ensure you have the performance and reliability required for continuous operation. That said, I did want to test using desktop-class drives inside a NAS, specifically SSDs, since these are less likely to cause issues if all you require is somewhere to stash files and maybe perform some reads here and there with a few running services. Equipped with a LincPlus LincStation N1 and a few mismatched SSDs, I assembled a compact, yet fairly capable NAS, and the test began.