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Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source (lemmy.world)
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Thanks to this community I've learned and I'm feeling inspired. I've loved having an NAS for the last few years, but it's woefully under powered for what I'm using it for these days.

So I've ordered some basic PC parts, gonna build a basic setup using an old CPU I got lying about and try the NAS OS I saw talked about on here recently.

TrueNAS looks like a good option with only slight fears it'll go down the well known path to the dark side like so many free options before.

In any event, I'm looking forward to adding Nextcloud and Jellyfin, to trying out Docker and generally having more control over things.

Thanks again to you all for informing and inspiring.

I'll be back if I get questions!

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[–] Sproutling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m actually going the other way and building a proper server out of an ancient HP Proliant ML110 G2 that my dad gave me.

Haha, one of my top concerns at the beginning was form factor. I really could not find a decent 4-bay case at the time that wasn't super hard to build in or a full-blown ATX. I think the closest I found was a Jonsbo N2, but it doesn't give enough space for a decent cooler. What I ended up going with was total overkill, a NZXT H1 with a PCI-E NVMe expansion card that gave me 3 extra NVMe slots. So now I have a RAIDZ1 array made up 4x 4TB SSDs. The overall form factor is nice, but the performance is completely ridiculously overspecced. My rationale though is that the SSDs were cheap enough and I think they'll outlast a regular HDD. I was annoyed at how my WD Reds died within 3-4 years back when I was still using my QNAP.

Now that locally hosting AI models is becoming a thing, I am kinda regretting going small form factor because I can't cram GPUs in there. So now I am thinking maybe getting one of those 4-foot high small server cabinets and getting a few Sliger CX4170a's and just building full PCs. I would probably move my main PC into that rack as well. But this is all just thoughts. Budget wise it's a bit ridiculous, but one can dream!

Sufficient I suppose. Limited by the single USB 3 connection.

Dang, if they made an updated one with USB 4, that'd be sick. Heck, I wouldn't even mind if they had multiple USB connections coming out of the thing, I just like the form factor.