Hey guys ive been self hosting things for a while now mostly just off a bunch if old computers in a k8s cluster.
The majour issue i have currently is all my data is on a single hdd in an old dektop. Its painfully slow and very risky as i have no backup or anything (i dont feel to great about that).
I really dont have much $ to spend hence my setup is built from a stack of practically ewaste hobbled together. I finally have the $ to buy some drives how should i go about building myself a nas on the cheap?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your basic components will be an old desktop you have lying around and two hard drives. Put the two hard drives in RAID 1 (mirroring) set with either a network share and/or FTP access to add/remove stuff from the array. The drives optimally should be the same size, but if they aren’t that is OK, the amount of redundant space available will the the size of the smaller of the two drives.
Depending on what you have lying around this might not cost you anything. However, if you are going to spend money anywhere it should be on the drives themselves. You probably don’t need anything fancy, just a cheap pair of HDDs.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 year ago
With truenas you won’t need raid
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, for TrueNAS it would be a mirrored ZFS array with said two drives, functionally the same.