Are you planning on using basic Windows Server, or the Windows Storage Server?
A different approach worth considering would be Storage Server, utilize the
Storage Spaces. This gets you redundancy just from a dumb JBOD enclosure. Skipping
something like a Drobo.
I do see NUC units out there with Thunderbolt,
I could use both Windows Server flavors, in theory.
The one NUC unit with Thunderbolt is w/o ethernet port, unfortunately. I actually already have that specific NUC model in the office for a different project.
If I want Ethernet, I have to stick to USB3 storage.
One of the reasons I wanted to use Drobo is its flexibility with Drives, as Rob mentions. Synology will be just as flexible, but HDD are in a tray with screws. Unfortunately, there's no 5disk Synology with USB3 that I know of.
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