Curious what you’ve got installed on it. What do you use a lot but took awhile to find? What do you recommend?

  • @fork@beehaw.org
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    1210 months ago

    I don’t know if I can claim a spare hard drive hooked up to a Raspberry Pi as a NAS, but it’s what I have - and it works quite well for my single-user use case.

  • @lodronsi@beehaw.org
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    I’ve got a Synology 918+ with 16TB in raid 10.

    Of the synology software, I regularly use: Photos (photo backup and organization tool), Drive (a private “cloud” sync like Dropbox), the contacts and calendar services, and surveillance station, their security camera monitor/recorder. Via Docker, I also run dokuwiki, gitea, draw.io, minio, postgres, freshrss, firefly3, calibre, and a few others. Like others, Time Machine backups of laptops and backups of non-apple hardware use a lot of the space.

    I also have my older Synology 213 running still just as a place to backup important stuff from the primary.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    710 months ago

    On Reddit, we had a r/selfhosted. Do we have something like that here, in the new frontier?

  • @DM_Gold@beehaw.org
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    610 months ago

    I’d like to build a NAS. Does anyone have a simple guide I could follow? I do have experience building my personal computers. I could search online for a guide, but a lot of the time small communities like this will have the end-all be-all guide that isn’t well known.

    • @Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
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      310 months ago

      I don’t have one off hand but a NAS at homelab level is not that different from a server.

      I have had success with getting a second hand server with a moderately powerful processor (old i5 maybe?), a good 1/10Gb network card (which can be set up with bonding if you have multiple ports), and lots of SATA ports or a raid card (need PCI slots for the cards as well).

      I would go with even a lower power processor for power savings if that’s a thing. ECC ram would be great, especially for ZFS/btrfs/xfs.

  • @Hexorg@beehaw.org
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    610 months ago

    I have a $60 ASRock mobo + Intel Celeron quad core combo. Stuck 16gb of Ram in it and two sata controllers. I think ran was the most expensive and the computer now costs $150 without the drivers. I have x8 4TB drives and a 60GB ssd running true nas. That gives me 24TB space and two redundant drives for failure tolerance. From there I run jails (FreeBSD containers) for NextCloud, MiniDLNA, and transmission.

    • @dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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      210 months ago

      Sounds pretty similar to my setup. Does your CPU officially support that much RAM? The documentation to my J4105 says it supports 8 GB max but I’ve read that some people managed to get it to run with more.

  • @karce@beehaw.org
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    I’ve got a ‘NAS’ setup on my desktop computer/server. I use it for almost everything. It runs VMs and games and self-hosted servers, etc, etc. It is Arch Linux but does it all. Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/QBittorrent.

    24 TB of HDD in raid 10.

    I haven’t found a good reason to keep a separate computer/server. It pretty much just always complicates the setup. If I need more separation, a VM is usually a better answer in most cases as far as I can see.

  • @CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org
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    I used a Rasberry Pi 4 to make a pi-hole ad blocker. I then learned you could just plug in a harddrive to it (USB) to make a very simple NAS. I bought an SSD to USB case/adapter, and with basic tutorials online I now have a network drive. To reiterate, I have no programming skills. Both the pi-hole and now the NAS were from copy-paste command line walkthroughs.

    It’s not a fancy “NAS” as far as redundancy or backup, but now all 4 of the gaming PCs (wife and kids have their own) can connect to the same drive for sharing stuff. I also use it to manually back up all our photos/videos. I love it.

    • @TechHawk@beehaw.org
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      210 months ago

      I don’t have a NAS yet, but I’ve been interested in one as well as PiHole for a bit. I have 2 Raspberry Pi 3b+ currently and have muddled my way through setting up Octopi for a 3D printer on one and setting up ADSB plane tracking on the other. Mostly copy-paste commands as you did on both of them using PuTTY. If I ever get a Pi 4, I’d be interested in doing what you did with yours. Any resource suggestions?

  • @dollop_of_cream@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    I’m using a Synology setup. I thought I’d grab an off the self option as I have a habit of going down rabbit holes with DIY projects. It’s working well, doing a one-way mirror off my local storage with nightly backups from the NAS to a cloud server.

    • @UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub
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      I use synology. I’ve done freenas, openfiler, even just straight zfs/Linux/smb/iscsi on Ubuntu and others. Synology works well and is quite easy to setup. I let the nas do file storage. And tie other computers to it (namely sff dell machines) to do the other stuff, like Pi-hole or plex. Storage is shared from the nas via cifs/smb or iscsi.

      Synology also has one of the best backups for home use imho with Active Backup for Business. It can do vmware, windows, max, Linux etc. I actually have an older second nas for that alone. But you can do it all in one easily.

  • @ntldr@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    Desktop PC running proxmox with a bunch of VM’s. Mostly focused around hosting Plex but some other stuff as well. Below are some of my VM’s. All are running Ubuntu server btw.

    • HDDs get passed into this VM which uses mergerfs to pool them all together. Then I’m running an NFS server to share the drives with the other VM’s that need access.
    • Torrent client, sonarr, radarr, etc. To automatically acquire content.
    • Plex VM
    • Gaming servers (hosts Minecraft, valheim, etc servers)
    • externally exposed nginx instance, hosts sites such as overseer.
    • internally exposed nginx instance, allows for https access to all internal services (sonarr, radarr, flood, etc).
  • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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    I have an older R710 running TrueNAS right now with 1tb of (usable) flash storage and 10Gb connection the to the rest of my lab.

    I have another TrueNAS instance running as a Proxmox VM with a Lenovo SA120 DAS attached to it, which has 2x 10Tb drives in mirror mode for mass storage. It’s also technically connected via 10Gb to the rest of my lab.

  • @jeansburger@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    Currently running an R710 in RAID6 with 32TB usable, but between the data on plex and backups of things in the rack I’m low on space.

    I’m looking at getting 8 Odroid HC4s and some referbed 20TB drives to build a Glusterfs cluster that will host all of my VM disks and backups. At least with that I’ll have 80-120TB depending on how much fault tolerance I have. Because they have two HDD slots I can double my storage when it gets low and just add more boards to expand the array when I’m tight for space again.

    • @nodiet@feddit.de
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      410 months ago

      I don’t have any experience with the Odroid HC4, but I used to have an N2 and while I am sympathetic towards Odroid I can’t help but feel their software/firmware support is lacking. I always had issues with the GPU driver and there was either a hardware or firmware fault with the USB controller which lead to random access errors.

      • @jeansburger@beehaw.org
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        310 months ago

        Oh I’m not going to use the trash OS Odroid supplies. I’m going to use Armbian which is much more stable and has better support for the tooling I want to use

        • @OzoneThePirate@sopuli.xyz
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          210 months ago

          Thank you for saying that, I’ve been struggling with my HC4 using the Odroid supplied OS for a while and need to start fresh. Definitely going down this path thus time. Cheers!

  • Drew
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    510 months ago

    I’ve just been using an old laptop with jellyfin, radarr, sonarr and transmission.

  • @unfazedbeaver@lemmy.one
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    510 months ago

    Computer with Ubuntu Server, with a Ryzen APU (3400g), 16GB DDR4 RAM, and 2 x 4TB WD Red CMR Drives.

    Use it as a media server for Jellyfin, and also as a file server using NFS. Works super awesome and I wish I had done this sooner

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    I’ve got a HP DL360 g9 running Ubuntu server lts and ZFS on Linux with 8× 1.2tb 10k disks, and an external enclosure (connected by external SAS) with 8× 2tb (3.5" sata) disks. The 1.2tb disks are in a ZFS raid10 array which has all our personal and shared documents, photos, etc The 2tb disks are in a raidz6 and stores larger files.

    It uses a stupid amount of power though (mainly the 10k disks) so it’s going to be replaced this year with something newer, not sure what that will look like yet.

  • @Kaldo@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    It’s something I always wanted to setup for my personal files, docs, media etc. but get dissuaded once I see synology costs, hard drive requirements, RAID setup options and just generally power draw / heat&noise generation. Looking forward to answers here, I’d be very happy to get off cloud storage but not if it’s a second job maintaining and setting it up