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DIY Nas & Homeserver (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I am not sure if this is the right place, but I will give it a try.

My 10years old NAS quited working 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 serms a bit difficult.

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

At the moment my favorite is this fanless board: https://www.minipc.de/catalog/il/2942

I would upgrade it with a pci card to get more sata slots or with a m.2 card which would do the same thing.

ECC compatibility feels unnecessary.

Is there anything that I forgott? 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.

Thanks in advance 😊

Edit: I just realised that M.2 M key SSDs are not supported by the slot... This reduces the options to chose from

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[–] Nugget 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

See if you can get a used Quadro P4000 from someone local to you (eBay in the US, for example). I got mine for about $80. It's basically just a GPU for video encoding, but it's done a fantastic job handling everything I've thrown at it, and it's a huge upgrade over a CPU.

You can also post on the c/[email protected] community (I hope that link works! Here's another if it didn't)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Usualy over at reddit selfhosted sent the user asking for diy nas over to the r/NAS but it is still private and there is no lemmy chanel yet. But because of this I tried "hardware" first ^^

The quadro p4000 could be a bit over the top. And it lacks the rest of a pc 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have bought this https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/ . I like HardKernel, they have really good support. My Nas is very cheap and thanks to armbian I have exactly what I wanted.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you not uo to building a PC to have lots of storage connections, 2.5Gb LAN, running TrueNAS?

Would a Pine64 board not work for you? The ROCKPro64?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, atm only a few users (maybe 4-5 at once) should connect at the same time. The 2,5Gb lan is only a nice to have because the board comes with it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have only seen 2.5Gb on ATX boards, is it available on SoC? Does a Pine64 board work for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess i missunderstood. The board I linked got 2xGb-Lan not 2,5gb lan. Sorry.

It seems like the pine64 is based on android right? I planned to use "debian server" or "trueNas scale". Don't know if this is compatible. But since the raspi always needed its own version of every software because of its cpu architecture (ARM) I wanted to switch to the more common X64 platform. So I can use the usual software version for for example docker.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Pine64 is an open hardware ARM chip. It can BSD, Linux, maybe Windows On ARM, I see no point in using it for Android, but you can run the Arm version of any BSD or Linux.

There is no Pine version like Pi, anything that works on ARM will run natively on Pine64.