I'm in the process of packing and moving cross-country (US, 2300 mi/3700 km) and I need to figure out how to safely move my gear.

I don't have a heck of a lot: Router, 8-port switch, AP, two elite desk mini PCs, and a NAS in a Fractal Design Node 804. These are all on a small cheap-o rack. I also have 2 gaming PCs we need to keep safe, too.

We're using some U-Box/Pods for the bulk of the move (weather resistant, stored indoors, but not temperature controlled), and then driving 2 cars 4-8 weeks later. Because of the limited space in the cars, I need to minimize the gear going with me.

My biggest concern is how to secure the hard drives. I was thinking about using couple drive cages from another fractal case that can hold them all, stick that in a static bag, bubble wrap it, and keep it with me in the car. Same with our video cards in the gaming PCs. Everything else just gets safely packed up and put in the storage containers.

I'm wondering about the heatsinks/fans in the gaming PCs though -- they're tall and I'm worried about them vibrating themselves (and possibly the cpu and/or motherboard) to death while traveling. Everything else should be reasonably safe.

It's not feasible for us to keep all of this stuff in the cars with us due to all of our day-to-day belongings that will be there. Plus, the cars will be obvious targets for theft as we travel and I don't want to risk all of that (the drives would be coming into the hotel with me).

Thoughts? Other ideas? Thanks :)

I currently have Nextcloud running, and it's stable, performant...no issues whatsoever. But it's also a LOT more than what I need, and stores files in an "unusable" state if I want to look at them outside of Nextcloud. The real kicker is that the linux client wants to download the entire cloud drive, which simply doesn't work for me.

For most cases, I think a samba share is all I need, but I do have times when I don't have internet access, so the ability to save specific files locally to sync back when I'm home would be great. Nextcloud and OneDrive have a "always keep on this device" option which has been perfect in the past.

I use Syncthing for some specific cases, but it adds extra steps I don't want to deal with all the time.

Specifically, I'm looking for something with these requirements:

• provide a virtual drive for Linux and Windows
• can keep specific files/folders from that drive offline
• point the server to a folder (or folders), and that's what it shares

And "would be nice, but not required"

• web interface to view/download files
• user-level access
• web and virtual drive can be accessed via reverse proxy

I've tried poking around, and can't find anything that seems to fit. I'm surprised there isn't a webdav client or samba config option that would do what I want, but I may also be in a mental rut and missing a key term.