NAS hardware

[jsnotlout1]

So my family won't shut up about their constant need for more storage space on Google Drive for their photos. So I am forced to create a bigger NAS Because they refuse to pay monthly subscriptions. (I just used a small drive on one of my servers for my personal NAS). I have a 12100f with cooler and 8GB of DDR4, along with an MSI PRO H610M-G with 4 SATA ports, I also have a PCIE card that adds 2 more SATA ports. So I plan to get a PSU and a cheap case to throw this all in. Will this work for about 3-4 people to use? Or do I go out and buy a prebuilt NAS? I could also obtain an old office PC, I even have one, but it lacks more than 2 SATA ports.

 

Are there any good 2TB drive recommendations?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What software do you plan on using? Getting a Google photos like experience can be difficult, and you need to setup port forwarding 

 

Thats plenty of computer power, you should need fairly little here.

 

Do you want to be blamed if the NAS is lost with all the photos? I'd be tempted to just let them deal with the issues or pay for Google drive so your not blamed.

[jsnotlout1]

50 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What software do you plan on using? Getting a Google photos like experience can be difficult, and you need to setup port forwarding 

 

Thats plenty of computer power, you should need fairly little here.

 

Do you want to be blamed if the NAS is lost with all the photos? I'd be tempted to just let them deal with the issues or pay for Google drive so your not blamed.

Yes I saw some software that worked pretty well. And I am competent with networking.

 

I was going to have at least 2 drives for a mirror backup, and have USB drives with monthly backup schedules. I do run a jellyfin server, and get complaints when it goes offline for .2 seconds, so I'll probably get pestered. But I think with a multiple step backup plan it should be stable.

[Electronics Wizardy]

53 minutes ago, jsnotlout1 said:

Yes I saw some software that worked pretty well. And I am competent with networking.

 

I was going to have at least 2 drives for a mirror backup, and have USB drives with monthly backup schedules. I do run a jellyfin server, and get complaints when it goes offline for .2 seconds, so I'll probably get pestered. But I think with a multiple step backup plan it should be stable.

I'd back it up more frequently unless you have a good reason not to. incremental backups means there should be minimal bandwidth used for backups.

 

2 drive mirror seems good.

 

 

[Bersella AI]

It's also recommended to introduce an affordable cloud storage, like Backblaze B3 or Cloudflare R2. Backblaze specifically charges $6 per month for 1 TB of object storage, and minimum (if not zero) risks on data loss are expected.

 

14 hours ago, jsnotlout1 said:

Are there any good 2TB drive recommendations?

Only SSDs in that size are recommended. Hard drives are priced ridiculously with capacities under 4TB, so you may start with 4 TB; then the WD Purple and Seagate SkyHawk series are recommended, as they guarantee CMR recording while keeping affordable.

[LIGISTX]

15 hours ago, jsnotlout1 said:

(I just used a small drive on one of my servers for my personal NAS)

Why set up a whole new MAS if you already have one running? 
 

Add some drives to whatever machine this is, set up SMB shares, done. 

[jsnotlout1]

On 9/19/2024 at 9:55 AM, LIGISTX said:

Why set up a whole new MAS if you already have one running? 
 

Add some drives to whatever machine this is, set up SMB shares, done. 

I did think of this, but I was worried the overhead of running a media server and a Minecraft server might interfere with the NAS performance

[LIGISTX]

6 hours ago, jsnotlout1 said:

I did think of this, but I was worried the overhead of running a media server and a Minecraft server might interfere with the NAS performance

The NAS will use very little resources unless you are trying to transcode. In that case, throw a GPU in it (or if the server has an iGPU you will be fine with that) and you're good to go.