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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

While we're on the topic: any good NAS hardware recommendation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It highly depends on your requirements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Low power usage, storage/memory expandability

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Old Proliant cube servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Check out Wolfgang's Channel on YouTube. He goes very in depth on low power consumption home servers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Synology usually just works. If you ask for a diy build, you have to be more specific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Anything you can find 2nd hand cheap with a bunch of SATA ports and at least a gigabit LAN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any chromebox can be used for this. You can grab one for cheap from businesses that have decommissioned them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless you want to store your data... Chromeboxes are not known for being expandable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Huh actually yes, I have one with TrueNAS on and have created a couple of Zvol connected over USB. It is not like having a big server but it does the job while using little power

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. It is not recommended that you use USB drives for ZFS but it sounds like it is working for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Perfect is the enemy of good. TrueNAS has been happy and running non stop for 6 months now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh man. I'm still on 5 and terrified to upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you faced any issues upgrading past versions ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've never upgraded. I'll have to bite the bullet at some stage