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.

    • Fahad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I apologise for not being clear.

      These are the specs of my NAS build:

      • Node 804 case

      • 16GB DDR4 RAM

      • Seagate IronWolf Pro 2x 4TB

      • 1TB nvme Samsung 970 evo plus

      • Gigabyte H610M S2H V2 Intel H610 LGA1200 DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboardd

      • DeepCool GAMMAXX GT CPU Cooler A-RGB 120mm PWM Addressable RGB LED Fan Intel AMD

      • 500W EVGA Power Supply Unit / PSU VAT INC

      • Intel core i5-12400t QS 6c/12t Support ASUS ROG Strix B660-I Gaming WiFi LGA1700.

      • I want to store all data onto the NAS, past projects, pics, etc.

      • Set up automatic backups for Windows, Mac

      • Set up media server (Jellyfin) with Arr apps using a VPN (I’m not sure how to set up a VPN with torrent client)

      • Set up headscale to access my NAS from anywhere (also, I can’t find any tutorials).

      • For 3-2-1 backups, I have decided to get an external HDD and use cloud storage.

      • Self-host services such as Nextcloud, Immich and Bitwarden.

      • VMs - Future

      • Web hosting - Future

      • Home assistant - Future

      To be clear, I want to do all that; however, I have never done it before, so that any tutorials would be appreciated.

      By “Dos and Don’ts,” I’m referring to the settings that should be adjusted for optimal performance, security, and privacy.

      Also, any other recommendations would be appreciated.

    • osarusan@kbin.social
      3·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      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).

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    111·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    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.