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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Raspberry pi: No. Or, at least, not without doing something to make sure you have a real storage backend and aren’t just running it off an SD card. The wear on SD cards is exaggerated and largely minimized if you use an OS that is configured to be aware of it but you are also increasingly relying on a ticking time bomb.

Mini PC/NUC? I am a huge fan of these and think they are what most people actually need for stuff like home assistant, adguard, etc. Just understand you are going to be storage limited sooner than you expect and you can oversubscribe that CPU and memory a lot faster than you would expect.

My general suggestion? Install proxmox on the mini PC and deploy on top of that. If/when you decide you want something more, migration is usually pretty easy.

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Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Oh yeah, that is true. Mini PC has a proper ssd nvme.

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- NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just get a used PC and make a NAS. No need to buy a dedicated one.
  
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  - NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    For a (first) NAS, I generally discourage this.
    
    Office liquidation desktops are great for home servers (if you aren’t paying for power). But they generally are very limited on storage. Limited bays to install hard drives and limited SATA ports. So you rapidly end up with drives just sitting on the bottom of the case and real jank pcie boards to extend your storage.
    
    Which then becomes a HUGE issue when you have a drive failure. Because now you need to actually identify which drive is the failed one which involves reading off serial numbers and so forth.
    
    Whereas a 4-bay NAS generally has dedicated hardware and hot swap bays which make this trivial. You might never actually use the hot swap capability, but it makes checking which drive is the bad drive fairly trivial.
    
    Also, a good 4 bay NAS is REAL easy to unplug and put in the trunk of your car during a disaster. Don’t ask me how I know.
    
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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t have direct experience with them, but my understanding from youtubes is that the ugreen NASes are specifically designed for you to just ignore their OS and install your own (so truenas or proxmox).
  
  Hardware tinkering is more limited but… there is very much a question of how much of that people actually do.
  
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  - Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The first thing I did with my ugreen was install truenas, then learn how to use truenas.
    
    While I’ve migrated several docker compose apps over, I feel I’m still learning the truenas part of the system.
    
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nagaram@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And if you just want a NAS? It is really hard to go wrong with a 4 bay NAS from one of the reputable vendors (which may just be ugreen at this point?) as those tend to still come out cheaper than building it yourself and 4 disks means you can either play with fire with RAID5 or not be stupid and do RAID1.

Actually ASUS started to sell N100 motherboards with the CPU soldered on for $120

That plus a jonsbo N2 or N3, a few extra pieces, and its a few hundred dollars cheaper than the Ugreen options. Sure it will probably run Truenas instead of Ugreens custom truenas or whatever its built on, but that extra $300 is another 24TB hard drive or a HexOS lifetime subscription.

There’s also always the classic buy an old mid sized tower for $100 and slap two massive hard drives in it

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