Advice to upgrade from 2slots sbc to a 4/5 slots NAS

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨loboaureo@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I currently have an Odroid H4C that has two SATA with two 12TB hard drives.

It’s starting to get too small, so I was thinking of taking the step and move to a 4/5 bays NAS and reuse the disks (the other option was to add disks via USB).

What NAS do you recommend me to continue being able to have my *ARR suite + torrent + nextcloud + syncthing + small services(gitea, trillium notes, etc)?

I would like to already have some redundancy, can I use the hard drives as they are or will I have to do something to them besides adding other hard drives? (my idea was to add one more disk of 12 to have redundancy and already expand space with a fourth disk)

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doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do you want to build one yourself or are you mainly interested in off-the-shelf solutions? What’s your budget? Do you run your services as containers? Do you need hardware acceleration for streaming with Jellyfin/Plex?

I would like to already have some redundancy, can I use the hard drives as they are or will I have to do something to them besides adding other hard drives?

Why do you want redundancy? To keep your data available or to keep your data safe?

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- loboaureo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  added this info in the post, is really usefull and i don’t think about it. Thanks!!!
  
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Mellow12@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Synology Diskstation DS1522+ $699.00 Synology Diskstation DS1621+ $899.99

Some of those apps are available through the community package center. If not then you can run a docker environment or a virtual machine on the DS and run whatever you want. It’s got a lot more horsepower than a single board computer, but I still recommend separation of duties and let the NAS be a NAS. Put your services on a server or separate virtual environment.

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- realbadat@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d second this, if only because it’s super easy to run things on and OP explicitly said they don’t want to tinker with it. There is a limited list, imo, of buy and forget.
  
  That’s said, I personally think a cheap little 4th gen or higher Intel based tiny/mini/micro would do a way better job on the services side, and just store on the NAS.
  
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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
Plex	Brand of media server package
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC	Single-Board Computer

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