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just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Separate your services if possible. NAS just needs to store files. Eggs in one basket, fault tolerance yada yada.
Comment on I can not over express how happy I am with having setup my NAS from scratch.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Separate your services if possible. NAS just needs to store files. Eggs in one basket, fault tolerance yada yada.
essell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’d be great. Love to get a bigger better setup and just leave this one to run the surveillance system
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Tiny/mini/micro.
You can grab a used box for under $200. Most I’ve picked up have been around $100-$125, then I drop in a new m.2 for the host, maybe add/change ram depending on what I got it with.
Data lives on the NAS (really multiple for me, but besides the point here), and you’ll get waaaayyyyy more compute with a usff PC like that than you will with a pi or what a NAS can offer. They also run really light on power when you aren’t putting the CPU to work, so budget friendly in a bunch of ways.
I’ve got a goal after a move my wife and I are planning to run the whole shebang on solar, with battery and a switch to utility power. I’ve got 10 of these little monsters now, after a recent addition, and its quite doable from my measurements of actual power usage.
Which is a really long way of saying you may want to look at some tiny/mini/micro PCs.