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Question about storage (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi !

I started my selfhosted journey with a synology nas. But the nas was crap, so I ended using it only as storage and backup solution, providing NFS shares. I added SBC like raspberry pi, then upgraded it to a elitedesk running debian.

I would like to upgrade my nas to a more powerful device but I'm also considering adding a sata extension dock and rely only on my elitedesk minipc instead of two devices.

Can I get remarks and advices?

Thanks!

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

I eventually moved to an energy-efficient PC. It has a large case and 6 SATA ports and lots of RAM. That replaced pretty much everything I had before. I try to buy the largest hdd I can afford every time I need a new one. And the old NAS and smaller harddrives get a second use as backup space and for experimenting.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can you share the reference of your PC?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm afraid that won't help. That was like 6 years ago and all the hardware isn't available any more. It's a Xeon 4 core, an affordable workstation/server mainboard that happens to be very efficient in idle, 48GB of RAM and a bunch of harddisks. I started out with 6TB and then bought the best size/price hdds, which should currently be somewhere in the 12-14TB range if I'm not mistaken?

    I got the idea from the German computer magazine c't. They occasionally test mainboards and do recommendations for self-built home NAS, office or gaming rigs.

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