NAS for VM/sever/storage?

[Julian シ]

Hey, so I’m a bit new to the whole NAS thing. I’m a game developer and hobby YouTuber myself and I’m looking for something for the following.

• Store cloud photos
• Windows vm, work long distance on it via my Mac
• Backup for projects
• I make videos of drone footage I film with ai music
• Possibly to host a site with SQL, if this is smart

Would a NAS suit these use cases? Can you separate functionality? What do you all recommend?
 

Maybe I need multiple systems. I can build computers, just never tried a nas and I’m not that knowledgeable about it. Too many different options. I was hoping to start off with 1000 and 2 drives and upgrade over time. Not sure what’s realistic. 

[Julian シ]

As for the VM on Mac. I refused to buy the overpriced ssd, not enough storage to run it locally

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, Julian シ said:

As for the VM on Mac. I refused to buy the overpriced ssd, not enough storage to run it locally

I’d look into unraid if your plan is to increase storage over time. It’ll handle everything you mentioned just fine. 
 

Processor is really up to you. How much performance do you need in the VM? You can run the NAS itself off a system from 2010 with no issue…. NAS’s don’t need much CPU. So you just need to determine how much power you need for the rest of what you want to do. 

[BoomerDutch]

"overpriced ssd" hah you wish.

(Meanwhile i have 4 ssd as big cache)

 

It doesn't matter if it has ssd or not.

It's what you want, fast or wait for couple minutes. That machine runs 24/7 right?

 

No need for ssd just buy chunk hdd boys and it will work fine.

 

Think about what you want realistically have more storage or more support for Vms or both but expect both have impact of performance.

 

 

Unraid cost money but possible 

Truenas for storage nas but low support to VM.

Proxmox for Virtualisation multiple Vms and you can host VM nas instead but would require tech skills.

 

Those three are best options to go with what you want.

 

If you have multiple systems then i would have Proxmox and truenas.

Use proxmox storage to truenas.

 

Then you have nas for all data vms video etc.

 

And you can create multiple instances that you need like database or mac or windows or even servers.

 

And truenas can be used for backup and important things to keep performance good and keep delivering data to Proxmox for live vms.

 

I would use ipv6 for fast transfers.

[Julian シ]

Ahh I meant as in apple charges like 300 euro for 200gb more here @BoomerDutch

 

Thank you both for the information! Need to look it all up @LIGISTX

 

I do have some old machines, but feels like I should go for something which doesn’t use much electricity and a bit more performance.

[Jarsky]

9 hours ago, BoomerDutch said:

If you have multiple systems then i would have Proxmox and truenas.

Use proxmox storage to truenas.

Not seeing why you would run nested virtualization with TrueNAS Scale as an option now? 

The only reason to run Proxmox over TrueNAS Scale would be to scale out; i.e Failover clustering / DRS like Vmware. Otherwise both TNS and Prox use QEMU and KVM for virtualization, and both utilize ZFS. Unnecessary complexity. 

 

If the Windows VM is for video editing etc...honestly I would run Parallels on the Mac (assuming its an M1/M2) and invest the extra $$$ into a storage upgrade. 

Keep the NAS basic. If you want a personal cloud like NextCloud, OwnCloud, Seafile, etc..off the shelf NAS' like Synology, QNAP, Asustor, etc...support Docker to run these. They're user friendly with Web interface, and come with built in support for Mac backups (Time Machine).

There are simple LAMP stacks you can setup for Docker as well.