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DIY vs pre-build NAS for home use (programming.dev)

submitted 3 years ago by Piatro@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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

I picked up an old Dell Optiplex tower and slapped 4 cheap 4 TB drives in it. Setup as RAID 5 I got 12 TB of "redundant" storage for cheap! Perfect spot to keep all the p0rn torrents.

But I used OpenMediaVault for that deployment. It's been OK.... but I kinda feel that I am missing out on some of the more active developments of other distributions.

Despite that, I would absolutely suggest grabbing an old office computer and throwing some drives into it for a home NAS.

[–] vividspecter@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

It's the power usage and physical space that puts me off those kind of solutions. Of course, that varies a lot based on your living circumstances (location, whether you own a house, etc).