Building a NAS
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Building a NAS
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Re: Building a NAS
#2I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
Re: Building a NAS
#3I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
Got to ask about the elephant in the room, but what do you use it for / host?
Personally, I'm thinking of building a FreeNAS for photo storage / media, but unfortunately I've only got a four-drive array SuperMicro rack server (spare one I have from decomissioning a business).
Other things I'm interested in is perhaps hosting a few gaming servers and such for friends/family (Minecraft, etc.)
Hard to find uses for it other than offline-lowpower-media-storage.
Re: Building a NAS
#4I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
Got to ask about the elephant in the room, but what do you use it for / host? Personally, I'm thinking of building a FreeNAS for photo storage / media, but unfortunately I've only got a four-drive array SuperMicro rack server (spare one I have from decomissioning a business). Other things I'm interested in is perhaps hosting a few gaming servers and such for friends/family (Minecraft, etc.) Hard to find uses for it o…
I do a lot of high resolution photography and videography work. I've got about ~15 years of raw images and video files that I could probably go through and delete, but I'd rather keep them around so I can pretend that maybe some day, someone will be interested in looking at them.
I look at it as a modern version of the boxes full of pictures and slides my parents and grandparents kept in their basement for decades and never looked at.
Re: Building a NAS
#5I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
What's your power consumption like on this set up?
Re: Building a NAS
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#7Wow, I actually just got done building a home NAS for myself. As far as storage controllers, I managed to find myself a working SAS 9201-16i for $50 on eBay (16 port SAS card, only supports IT/HBA mode). Also got some cheap used 10 GbE cards off eBay as well for the link between my workstation and the NAS. Got a 4 port card for the NAS to turn it into a cheapo 10 GbE switch (OCe14104-U-TE with four SFP+ fiber optic transceivers for $190 USD).
I actually bumped into rclone and use Amazon Drive for backups myself. I was worried they'd freak out if I stored multiple terabytes of data there, but if you haven't got any emails about nearly 50 TB of data, I guess i shouldn't be so concerned.
A silly toy project i've been working on is to be able to use Amazon Drive as a block device via something like nbd (linux) or geom (freebsd). Would let me use existing drive encryption mechanisms (no personal data scraping for advertising purposes Amazon) and have the ACD storage be a zfs pool in its own right. Basically, a virtual 'SSD' backed by a collection of chunks (1 to 8 MiB, still benchmarking...) and where TRIM deletes remotely stored chunks.
Re: Building a NAS
#8Has anyone taken a deep dive look into rclone crypto? I looked around but didn't find anything in a quick search.
Only thing I've seen so far is https://rclone.org/crypt/
Re: Building a NAS
#9Wow, I actually just got done building a home NAS for myself. As far as storage controllers, I managed to find myself a working SAS 9201-16i for $50 on eBay (16 port SAS card, only supports IT/HBA mode). Also got some cheap used 10 GbE cards off eBay as well for the link between my workstation and the NAS. Got a 4 port card for the NAS to turn it into a cheapo 10 GbE switch (OCe14104-U-TE with four SFP+ fiber optic t…
I might get that new consumer-grade switch with 10GbE copper, but that's down the road a bit.
Re: Building a NAS
#10I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
How do you do backup?