Hey peeps, after setting up my 10th NAS for a media server, raked up some serious expertise, so here's the breakdown: Firstly, get yourself a Synology DS920+; it's a solid choice with enough horsepower. Stuff it with 4x WD Red Pro 14TB for that sweet RAID 10 – redundancy and …
Hey y’all, who says NAS has to break the bank? Managed to build mine on a shoe-string. Found a used HP Microserver on eBay for cheap, threw in a few WD Reds I got on sale during Black Friday, and boom! Running OpenMediaVault like a charm. Sure, it won't win …
Well, I did it. Got myself an overkill NAS setup. 32 terabytes of pure storage power, 10 GbE network card cuz why not, and a custom water-cooled Ryzen setup cuz I hate noise more than slow file transfers. Threw in a server-grade UPS cuz the electric grid here is as …
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NASzilla
so I got my NAS up finally (yay!) but not sure if my network's cutting it. I'm seeing about 60MB/s on gigabit ethernet. that's megabytes not megabits. is that decent? got cat5e cables and a pretty standard netgear router. should I be pushing for them 100MB/s or is this good …
Can't stress this enough, y'all need to encrypt your NAS data. Hacking's on the rise and you don't want to leave your door wide open. Here’s the step-by-step: First, Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is what you want. Yeah, it's a pain to setup initially, but peace of mind, folks. Before …
aight listen up, everyone here is about them RAID 10 setups, but what's the deal with the RAID 5 hate? got myself 5x2tb ssds in RAID 5 config, and it's smooth as butter. performance is good enough and got at least SOME fault tolerance – one drive can bail on …
Tired of Big Tech snooping on ya? It’s time to decentralize and reclaim privacy. Get this, your very own NAS can be part of the solution. First, hit up that Raspberry Pi 4 for power efficiency. Next, snag a couple of those 2TB PiDrive. Install Nextcloud – you're moving away …
hey guys I just tried building my first NAS got an old Dell Optiplex and threw FreeNAS on it. slapped in some mixed hard drives I found on sale and... nothing works right. keep getting errors about mismatched drives and pool failures. also its loud as heck... like a jet …