First, I would like to thank this community for being an understanding, open-minded and Novice friendly like myself. I have learned a lot in the past few weeks thanks to this community, unlike Reddit’s toxic communities where asking a question is illegal.
I have built most of my NAS; the only missing component (CPU) I will be collecting in the morning. I just wanted to ask general questions or tips. Dos and Donts. I will be using Unraid as OS.
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I agree Reddit is toxic. I’d argue reddit actually stopped being Reddit around 2016. But it’s posts like this that clog it all up and are partially why it is the way it is today.
I gotta agree with this. The toxicity in any reddit thread increases dramatically when the poster pre-emptively complains about all the toxicity they expect to receive. Whereas when you just ask straight without going into a whole speech about comment quality, you get much better replies. Particularly because it’s hijacking your own thread; changing it from whatever question you wanted to ask into an analysis of the comments.
To your point, I clicked on this post hoping to see what OP was going to use and why because I would like to build my own NAS some day. But like you said, this post is a waste of everyone’s time.
Well said.
The spirit of Self-Hosting is trying things and then asking specific questions when you get stuck (stuck includes having no luck using a search engine).
https://www.serverbuilds.net/ is a popular website online for folks building NASes at home. They’re fans of Unraid as well. They’ve got a Discord if you’re looking for something more interactive. Worth checking out. 👍
Dang I wish I knew about this a month ago, I just built a NAS myself. Thanks for the link!
Unraid is great, I use it daily. I grew past it in some aspects, but it’s a great starter OS.
Agree with other commenter. Don’t discount backups. Unraid is not a backup. Plan to lose all of your data someday.
What OS are you planning on running? I personally use FreeNAS(TrueNAS) and largely love it. There’s a steep initial learning curve, but it’s not too high.
I run it in a VM inside of esxi so I don’t need a lot of it’s more advanced features. But I do have a jail with deluge in it to handle my torrents. Deluge isn’t up to the task though so I may migrate to a separate VM with something else, or just make a new jail with a different client.
Are you me?
I do the same thing, I pass a HBA through to my VM, works like a charm.
Here’s my advice. The most important things are that you have a free GPU slot and another PCIE slot on whatever you get. You’re going to want a GPU for transcoding when disk space gets tight. You want the extra PCIE slot for a sas card. Disk shelves are surprisingly cheap, and you can keep adding disk that way. They daisy chain.
As far as the OS, I’m partial to Unraid and Truenas but seriously, anything you are comfortable with will work.
I don’t use unraid by my advice for everyone is that you can’t have too many backups of data that you really care about, use the 3-2-1 rule at a minimum.
Also, welcome to your new hobby you will love and hate at the same time sometimes :D
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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Well, read my reply here: https://lemmy.world/comment/6140312 and https://lemmy.world/comment/6140487 and https://lemmy.world/comment/6140806
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