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What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

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[–] topnomi@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I've been just using hard drives in my server computer running on my old gaming computer.

I recently switched my core os from linuxmint to opensuse tumbleweed. Ultimately the core os doesn't matter much, it's mostly personal interface differences. All my apps run on docker using docker-compose. I use caddy as my reverse proxy and letsencrypt certs.

I've heard VERY good things about synology. Their software has a unique raid mode and an easy platform to host apps and such. But they're kinda expensive...

[–] shatteredsteel@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I use Opensuse on my stuff too. I do bare metal though, because I'm old and this newfangled docker stuff frightens and confuses me.

[–] topnomi@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

The docker compose file lets me define all the variables in one file and link the configs to a folder next to the compose file. It lets me reinstall my core os, copy the Dockers folder, and bring them back up. All self contained.