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I will try that, regarding costs / taxes. Thanks !

I know, that's why I spoke about a Intel/AMD-Version Regarding U-Nas, sadly they don't seem to sell them in my region (Western Europe), that's why I forgot about them...

Thanks a lot for these ideas / answers. Good to know the m.2 won't work as I thought it would. The shuttles are not bad ideas, but pricy in comparison to what a NUC 8i5 would be... Ideally something like the Kobol Helios64 with an intel/AMD Processor would be simply amazing, funny this has never been done... Or did I miss something maybe ?

Hi there, After some years of using an Odroid HC2 with OMV and multiple Dockers (Plex / pihole / OpenHAB), it struck me : I need a better backup solution than a small Nextcloud on a rented server for the most urgent work stuff and backing up once every now and then (both PCs crashing at the same time surely helped) As the new 11th Gen NUCs seem to come to market I found an opportunity to get the 8th gen ones for rather cheap. They seem quite perfect (ambivalent if I should chosse to expand / change stuff, small, power efficient, quiet), sadly they dont come with an option to connect 3.5" HDDs. I was playing around with the idea of using Nextcloud, but I want my folders to feel organic on my pc, not have everything synced everyday to a folder and uploaded, feels wrong. So Synology and their backup software seems to be an ideal candidate, but wow those prices for such lame hardware... So here is the question : is it (somewhat easily) doable to instal DSM on a NUC and get an external USB3 dual-bay enclosure to work with it ? (I was thinking about the easy to find "toaster"-devices, but feel free to recommend something) My idea would be m.2 for the system, 2,5 inch 1 TB SSD for constant updates of Work stuff (what I do with a distant Nextcloud right now) and external USB HDDs for the digitized movies to use on plex and archived stuff... If someone knows about a mini-pc which looks nice in an office environment and does sip on power, I'm also all in, hasn't to be a NUC... Hoping to see some ideas from you and maybe join the bunch soon ! Thanks