What's a good solution for a small NAS?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨moody@lemmings.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’m looking to offload all my media from my main PC and make it accessible to other devices in my house. It’s likely to only be a few TB, probably 2 drives at most.

I’ve been trying to find a low-power solution since it will be running all the time. I do have a PoE switch, so it would be a bonus if it can run off PoE but not a requirement. I’ve been checking out a lot of the SBC’s that have become popular over the past couple years, but even the budget ones have gotten pretty expensive.

What are some good options?

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STROHminator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Currently running as my backup NAS is the ODROID-HC4. It’s running Open Media Vault on Armbian. www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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NAS Network-Attached Storage

SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage

SBC Single-Board Computer

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- quicksand@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  PoE = Power Over Ethernet
  
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toikpi@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How much do you want to spend?

If you go for a Raspberry Pi have a look at Terrapi cases as well the obvious Argon ones.

Another option would be a Zimbaboard. It is more expensive but it has dual SATA connector (you need to buy a Y cable with the Zimbaboard) and there are 3D print designs to create a single unit, e.g. printables.com/…/224057-zimaboard-dual-hdd-stand.

I’m not sure about PoE and a NAS. Will a PoE HAT or similar provide enough power for the board and the drives?

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Elkenders@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m also watching this as I’m in the same boat. I can’t help I’m afraid but I imagine people might ask if you want to ever transcode to the other devices.

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- moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I probably won’t need to transcode anything, I just want it to serve files as they are.
  
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BeefHouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use a NanoPi M4 V2, which has a SATA hat accessory. It will support 4 HDDs and even power them if they are all 2.5" drives, or you can do what I did and use 4x 3.5" drives in a simple cheap cage and a separate 12V 8A power supply on the side to power the lot. No problems streaming 4K x265 content using Plex (with a compatible Plex Media Client)

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Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC	Single-Board Computer