Building my own NAS, realizing how much of a noob I am...

[SenKa]

Some of you might know me as fairly knowledgeable in other subforums, but this is where I totally fall apart . Please be gentle if you try to help me.

 

So, as the title says I am looking to build my own NAS. I have a few very simple (they sound simple, anyways) needs for this to be a success.

 

I need:

Remote access to the contents of the NAS from anywhere

Data redundancy

JBOD with support for dynamic adding of disks as well as parody for disk failure. 

 

Thats about as far as I can really get. I am pretty good with Debian and Arch based Linux, as well as macOS and Windows, I just have 0 idea where to start here. Anybody care to help?

[2FA]

1 hour ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

1. Remote access to the contents of the NAS from anywhere

2. Data redundancy

3. JBOD with support for dynamic adding of disks as well as parody for disk failure. 

1. Remote access can be done through either a VPN server to access your LAN or using something like NextCloud or both. There are other methods as well like SSHfs but I've never used it personally.

 

Points 2 and 3 conflict, JBOD by definition does not provide parity nor redundancy. If a drive fails, you lose all the data on that drive. RAID and certain file systems (such as ZFS) can help to provide redundancy and parity but they aren't backups either, which you should have.

 

FreeNAS or OpenMediaVault are good solutions for a pure NAS system. FreeNAS should ideally have use ECC memory but not technically required, and their 1GB per 1TB of raw storage requirement is only needed if you want to use the deduplication feature, which you shouldn't because it's kind of broken, otherwise you can get away with a bit less RAM.

[Salacious B Crum]

Look into unRAID as your os it meets the needs you have stated you can download it for free for 30 days and it is completely unlocked so all options are available under the trial 
I have two unRAID servers and they are rock solid