Since r/NAS is not available and the [email protected] could not provide that much help I am here again to ask stuff ;D.
My 10years old NAS quited work and I am looking for my opportunities. And since I am tinkering with my raspi and am generally interested in selfhosting stuff like jellyfin, joplin e.g. I decided to take the step to build my own Nas instead of buying another Synology device.
I would like to provide my needs but since I am not sure about it it is only a try… Moreover I cannot say where the journey will take me to^^
What I know:
4 sata slots so I can use my actual drives and have the option to upgrade
Transcoding with jellyfin would be nice
having my own cloud storage is a long term aim
joplin server
maybe some terraria dedicated server could be cool also
low power usage and low noise are two criteria i would consider important since the energy prices only know one direction where I life
x64 architecture to use debian server or TrueNas Scale (I need to dive deeper into TrueNas before deciding)
I realised that the second M.2 slot does not supports M key SSDs but I planned to run the OS on an NVME… and since there is no PCIe the singel M.2 slot with M Key support is the only way to upgrade to 4 sata slots.
My actual favorite (but more expensive) choice seems to be: MITAC PD10EHI-N6415
Con:
price (not so much of problem)
ECC compatibility feels unnecessary.
Is there anything that I have forgotten? Any better choices from european vendors? Ordering from america is not an option because it would take forever to arrive and the process to get it from the zoll is time consuming and would put taxes on top.
I used to use FreeNAS but found it was to “heavy” for just home and personal use. I felt like it took a lot more steps to just do some simple things.
During my last upgrade, I switched to using OpenMediaVault and have been really enjoying it. I started using Docker with it and that has been an amazing breakthrough in the way I use services like Jellyfin.
I’ve been using SnapRaid for the data redundancy together with MergerFS so all the drives appear and operate as a single big drive. I have SnapRaid sync once a week which sort of acts like a backup in case I accidentally delete something.
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I used to use FreeNAS but found it was to “heavy” for just home and personal use. I felt like it took a lot more steps to just do some simple things.
During my last upgrade, I switched to using OpenMediaVault and have been really enjoying it. I started using Docker with it and that has been an amazing breakthrough in the way I use services like Jellyfin.
I’ve been using SnapRaid for the data redundancy together with MergerFS so all the drives appear and operate as a single big drive. I have SnapRaid sync once a week which sort of acts like a backup in case I accidentally delete something.
OMV is awesome. I like that Portainer is included, it got me into docker containers for running homeassistant, syncthing, cups server etc.