What NAS do you own, Jow Forums? What did you set yours up as?

What OS do you run? freenas?

ubuntu server with ZFS. It's what's /comfy/ for me. I tried freenas, but found the whole concept of jails to be weird and not for me

>install Linux and a few programs once
God, what a time sink.

Thoughts on WD Cloud Storage?

Been there, dumped it, now running Synology. WD NAS don't do NFS, shitty apps, very slow even with bonded ethernet

it's a ryzen 2600 running arch linux

Why Synology? QNAP is the same except you get a remote and more ports.

Why would anyone use a 2-bay NAS in this day and age?

Don't need a remote, like the quad-bonded Gigabit ethernet fro speed plus the plethora of official and 3rd-party apps

i run my own.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931,5G 0 disk
md126 9:126 0 2,7T 0 raid5
nas 253:0 0 2,7T 0 crypt
vg0-nas_pool 253:1 0 2,7T 0 lvm /srv
sdb 8:16 0 111,8G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
sdb2 8:18 0 103,4G 0 part /
sdb3 8:19 0 7,9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdc 8:32 0 931,5G 0 disk
md126 9:126 0 2,7T 0 raid5
nas 253:0 0 2,7T 0 crypt
vg0-nas_pool 253:1 0 2,7T 0 lvm /srv
sdd 8:48 0 931,5G 0 disk
md126 9:126 0 2,7T 0 raid5
nas 253:0 0 2,7T 0 crypt
vg0-nas_pool 253:1 0 2,7T 0 lvm /srv
sde 8:64 0 931,5G 0 disk
md126 9:126 0 2,7T 0 raid5
nas 253:0 0 2,7T 0 crypt
vg0-nas_pool 253:1 0 2,7T 0 lvm /srv
sdf 8:80 0 931,5G 0 disk
sdf1 8:81 0 931,5G 0 part

i bought a rosewill external bay enclosure because i only have 3 3.5 inch bays, NAS is unnecessary

Waste of time and money just buy a HDD and store it in the freezer in a box perfect backup

I have a small business grade server running various VMs including a NAS. I use it not only for storage but media sharing for my family, VM sandpit for learning, Nextcloud instance, some other things like that.

this

I own pic related ,with two 4tb HGSTs in it
I use it mainly for a family media share and to safely store my porn away from job/family.
I used to run an external hdd but its just shit, you can forget it, you have to go pick it up when you gotta rub one out, etc.

>time-wasting
>and then large external hard disks for backup and backup software.
That's literally what NAS is for, except it saves time since you don't have to juggle external drives between devices. and if you do raid 1 or 10 you get that extra redundancy.

It literally saves you lots of time.

Anyone own this? Do the fans spin while idle, I can't have it making lots of noise.

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>large external hard disks

Are you ever afraid of any of them failing out on you? I've used portable HDDs for years but I've had 3 of them die out on me in the past and I've been looking for something new since data loss is something I've been trying to prevent.

FreeNAS 11.1, 4X6TB Seagate RED, ZFS2, Plex, Debian VM running XOWA. My case use is going on sailboat and will need media and info when not connected to web. Also, additional VM's may connect with boat's nav/autopilot systems.

Couldn't buy one back when, it was sold out.

Even if the fans spin, there is nothing stopping you from using low noise ones, though?

They have lives outside of the chins and work and don't feel like playing amateur sysadmin in the basement.

>have 60tb in external disks
>this faggot tells me it's a good idea to get 240tb in disks to jam into a nas the size of a cabinet

I do that + mergerfs. It's good times

What if I have a family with multiple people and we all have multiple devices? It's nice to have our own little local 'cloud' on the home network so I can pull The Grinch anytime on any device anywhere in the house.

But what if I want to leave the house? I know this thought sounds crazy to you, also you can setup smtp, security cameras, have your phone going to that and not "cloud" shit...

He gets huge dick, just like you...

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Thats dope.. I'm in the bay and run accross rack and shit all the time, how much do you got into that? also what kinda internet connection are we talking about out here? we talking some good ole USR with a switch?

Yea freenas jails were offputting to me. The performance was good though. Unsaid is okay as well. Easier to toss noobuntu on it tho. Nextcloud is nice. New plex updates though have me moving to emby though.

Using Unraid, mostly for Plex.

Works fine.

Could I easily make a NAS out of a beater optiplex and a bunch of USB to SATA cables? I'd love to have RAID storage, but I don't want to break bank on it. Alternatively, what's the cheapest NAS solution for personal homelab use?

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You probably could.

> I'd love to have RAID storage, but I don't want to break bank on it.
It's cheap as fuck though, you just need a bunch fo SATA ports [or USB ones with UASP]. Linux handles the RAID bit on mdadm.

> Alternatively, what's the cheapest NAS solution for personal homelab use?
Some easy cheap pretty fast NAS is some ODroid XU4/HC1/HC2. [You can actually go cheaper with the ARM boards, but I don't really want to go into the various trade-offs.]

Or a build around some Asrock board with an Intel onboard chip, or an AMD 200GE or something.

I set a 4-bay QNAP up for my parents as a time capsule (apple backup) server with raid5.
My own computer just has a lot of hard drives

Can you elaborate to a newbie? What's the best way to have your home server connect to your phone?

Do I have to buy a DNS?

>usb to sata
I'd skip that shit and just get a SAS card with 8 sata ports for like $50 new or you can find retired ones for less than that

Is there a NAS you can schedule to spin the drives at a certain time and sleep the rest. Also be able to sleep/activate drives with a smartphone app?

DIY Linux should work for that.

Is there any sense in not spinning the drives vs suspending/turning off the NAS and doing WOL instead?

Another user here. There is no single best way

I'd get some dyndns to have a domain name point to your current IP and then tunnel into your network through wireguard, ssh, vpn or whatever you prefer.

I bought a domain name years ago (get whatever for like $5/year) and point it at my home routers IP. Comcast doesn't change them all that often (mine hasn't changed in over a year). Works like a champ.

Best fucking thing I ever bought

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What's the difference between a DS218play and a DS218+? The specs don't seem too much different, but there's a big difference in price.

And what about the DS418 vs DS418play?

synology have all kind of options

Virtual machine on my computer with two internal 8tb drives attached.

Set up in linux debian + runs a bunch of dockers containers.

Dedicated unit is fucking stupid since my main rig is on 24/7 anyways, and since I have 8 cores 16 threads and 32gb ram, I'm not gonna miss the 0.00001% CPU resource it takes and 4gb ram that I've dedicated to it.

Personally, having it as separate hardware seems fucking stupid to me when you can instead just invest the money into having a more powerful main rig.

play models are for multimedia transcoding but in my opinion it’s better to use some powerful pc for transcoding and nas for files storage only.

different cpu

What's + for then?

Compact yet powerful storage solution

Dynamic dns with a domain name from name cheap. Super cost effective and plays nice with dynamic ip

What's that blue thing that sort of looks like a crab fucked a toilet?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma

Not same user, but this is the power of anime websites:
It is from ghost in the shell, a robot.

I've been meaning to watch that anime
Kinda neat
Thanks, anons

I'm a lazy fuck so I got a Synology DS418Play.
Does what I need it to do and was easy to set up.
Could've done the same thing much cheaper if I set up my own NAS though.

Why do people generally opt for Synology over QNAP? Aren't they basically the same?

Yeah, i got one.
The fans are noisy only when you start it up for the first 10-15 seconds, after that they're barely noticeable.

If you're using one of these as a Plex server, do you really need Raid? What are the benefits for media streaming?

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How do you access the files from other devices then ? That's the whole point.

A buffalo LS 2Tb. After a power outage the firmware shat itself and so here we are. Also a custom built openmediavault nas and a rpi for redundancy of important data.

Raid is a meme. Stop listening to retards on this board.

how pointless

built one out of an old Lian-Li case (looks like an appliance, it's great) with 2 removable drive trays.

headless debian install with sambashare and an rsync backup every other night

Just use unRaid.

freenas on a hp proliant with emby, rtorrent, sonarr and gitea. Jails are pretty easy to use if you're not a brainlet and a lot of services can be installed via plugins.

ZFS is much better. Raidz1 and z2 are the answer for this decade and beyond.

What do I use to repurpose and old Atom 330 + ION and 2*2gb DDR3 (maxed out)? I also have a USB 3.0 PCI-E expansion card and a Mediasonic USB 3.0/eSATA 8 Bay enclosure.
I have a bunch of retired drives sitting around ranging from 500GB to 2TB (enough to fill all 4 sata ports on the motherboard and all 8 bays on the Mediasonic. My main system has 8 drives ranging from 1TB to 8TB

From what I understand it doesn't have the ram for FreeNAS.

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Well, that depends on if you want to make the media stored more resilient to drive failure.

Mdadn raid or snapraid is a good solution.

Eh, no. ZFS has very limited use since it performs comparatively poorly, scales poorly, bloats hardware requirements.

The distributed filesystems like Ceph are this decade's workhorses. And in a simple setup at home mdadm or snapraid are usually just plain better.

Lost of different disk sizes? Possibly try to use it with snapraid.

FreeNAS shouldn't be too annoying, but it'll likely not work too well in ZFS RAIDZ.

fpbp

What about Nas4Free or OMV?

Waiting for Zen2 to release to get power efficient Ryzen, underclock it and build a new sysem for NAS. My family has bunch of photos scattered on multiple PCs, I want them on one system with periodic backups.

No clue what they let you configure your storage as.

ZFS RAIDZ will suck though, it can't be resized, can't add/remove drives, uses too much processing power. It's one of the worst options even if there might be no absolutely perfect way to make use of different drive sizes like that.

Why do you need something as powerful and power-consuming as a Ryzen as NAS store photos?

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Just use an onboard Intel or something smaller for that, saves both electricity and initial costs and works fine for 4-8 drives at the speeds required.

If you only intend to use 1-4 drives, you could even use more modest ARM machines.

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OMV will do the job all right

>Waiting for Zen2 to release
Brainlet

DS918+

docker makes me horny

I don't see the wisdom in running docker in a premade J3455 with 2GB RAM that costs $550 or so.

Build your own J5005 with 4GB RAM and it's like $250... and far better.

Less power efficient, uglier design.

> Less power efficient
No. Basically exactly the same at various loads with the typical recent Jxxx chip and a picoPSU (/clone) thing.

Sure, you'd be able to measure the difference of 2GB RAM vs 4GB RAM if you cared, but eh.

> uglier design
Probably not, given that it's your choice of a case.
Either way, do you really want to trade having a simply better NAS with docker for a twice overpriced and still inferior metal box even if it looks "good"?

Have hp elite 8200 CMT that i got for $100. It has 6 bays for hard drives (have to use 3 converters for 5.25 bays). Installed dell raid card (flashed to HBA) I bought for $50 from some China guy on eBay. Apparently it's genuine. Put in 16gb of ram (non-ECC) and 6x 3TB drives (3 wd red, 3 seagate es3). Been running FreeNAS for almost a year with no issues. Have raidz2 setup. Using it for backup (with snapshots) and as a media server for my pornography, tvshows and movies that several tvs around the house access.

i tried synology 2 bay before. it's gay. freenas is much better and cheaper.

Not everyone is an autist like yourself willing to accept stupid ugly shit all over the house.

You are supposed to have at at least two copies of any data you value on different media. It doesn't matter if they are on external hard disks or not. If one copy fail then you back up the other copy.

If among all the many cases you can choose you pick something very "ugly", that's definitely on you.

Ds218j
PACS, Storage and VPN.

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Got mine from here
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What OS are you using on your VM? I wanted to use FreeNAS but apparently it's not safe unless you some HBA thing to connect the drives to. I couldn't find a compatible one for sale so I just ended up setting up smb on a debian vm.

a couple of odroid HC1s

bumping for further reference.

uh-oh
>can't watch anime from his phone

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