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

  • DM_Gold@beehaw.org
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.