What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I’ve got a lot of spare components lying around that I’m planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn’t work out I’ll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

  • viniciuspc@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    I am in the same situation, my concern about going DIY is the lack of ECC ram, but I don’t know how much this is important.

    • Maximilious@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      For a NAS it’s very important because ECC allows write-back to your disks from cache in the event of a power failure. Without this, your data is at risk of being lost or RAID corrupting if you don’t have battery backup and\or your battery backup fails during power outage.

      I’m looking at building my own truenas server since my rack is only 22" depth, but I want a 12 bay hotswap array. Very challenging to find an matx board AND chassis that can fit the bill.