Well I have been using an old gaming PC as NAS after it's GPU died, and even though it has served me greatly, it's a power hog. Also CPU is pretty old to do any transcoding or AI stuff. I have scored a mini PC with Intel N5105 for free, and its quite power efficient. Also it doesn't have SATA, but two nvme m2 slots, one of which can work with these m2 Sata adapters (asm1166 chip with 6 SATA ports). Now minipc obviously can't power up the 5 hardrives, all 3.5" SATA, so I need an external power supply. minipc got it's own adapter brick, so is there a similar adapter that can work for drives, or I have to get a PSU. But then again, If I am getting a PSU, I wonder if I could power the MiniPC off it as well.
I did came across this , and was wondering if this could be that would work for me.
I'm currently planning for my next server, and there's the same question.
My first idea was a plain and simple PSU for 12V and then a small buck converter to make 5V from the 12V.
Then I found a variant of the 12V PSU that has UPS capability built in (you can plug a 12V battery and it does everything else, or you can leave the battery away and it's just a PSU) and I ordered me this one. So I need no external UPS unit.
Example here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32852797799.html
It's not complete yet. For the wiring I'm going to do some tinkering with a cheap extension cable.