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Building NAS (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sammy@reddthat.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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What would be good specs for small but power-efficient NAS. I want it to be budget friendly, I would probably look for 2nd hand stuff. I plan to use it for media storage (most likely immich) and the arr stack + jellyfin.

Give me suggestions

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On the budget side there is:

raspberry pi + usb RAID enclosure that can spin down the harddrive (I used icybox in the past)

Instead of a pi, it is also interesting to look at mini PCs like N97 or N100 which are super cheap nowadays, about the same as a rpi5 if you consider whats included / what addons you'd have to buy for the pi. Mini PC have more RAM, a build in nvme, a way beefier CPU. But their power efficiency is way worse.

Depends on how much horsepower you need or how energy efficient you want to be.