New TrueNAS server custom build

https://imgur.io/a/yvW3ELI

Serves mainly as a NAS, but also as the host for Plex, HomeAssistant and some other stuff.

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Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (4 replies)

How much did you pay in total?

Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I haven’t dared summed it up yet. It’s been purchased over a stretch of time. Guesstimating to around €3000.

Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ouch indeed! I'm sure you want to run powerful applications to justify the costs :-)

Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

About half the cost was just the disks 😅

folkrav@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Jealous! I gotta upgrade mine soon, the hardware is 12 years old and I’m down to 3TB free.

folkrav@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (6 replies)
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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hey man, it doesn't matter how much you have, it's never enough!

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 2y

I choose to believe it's 2003 and everyone envies how much storage I have.

Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

My trick is setting a monthly saving for this a few years ago. Today me thanks past me.

Also, I started out with 2x 4TB in raid 1 in my previous server. Or really just an unused desktop with a 1TB disk before that.

folkrav@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It’s why I went with TrueNAS. It has built in support for VMs and containers in K3s. So far it’s been super nice. A lot to read up on, but you seem to have the same background as me so it should be fine. I find it fun!

folkrav@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
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doeknius_gloek@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Fun! I used the exact same chassis for my NAS. Thanks for sharing!

Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I searched far and wide for the perfect chassis. Silverstone make some awesome stuff.

doeknius_gloek@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yeah, the quality is really good. It's also not cheap. I bought this case mostly because it's rather shallow and did fit into my previous server rack.

I'm now at a point where I should buy another drive cage but I'm a bit hesitant to spend 150€ for it. Well...

Edit: Any reason you decided to go with a non-server mainboard without IPMI and ECC support?

Prizephitah@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 2y

My thoughts exactly! I recon that I’ll probably keep the case the longest of all, out of all those a hardware.

aedyr@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

That's awesome. Thanks for posting the pics and assembly.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Damn, Red Plus really are the best, so quiet.

I really wished they made them 20+TB (I switched to Exos X20 and was pleasantly surprised with the noise profile ... tho my expectations were preset to low).

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

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
Plex Brand of media server package
k8s Kubernetes container management package

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PHLAK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Awesome, what server chassis is that?

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Case: Silverstone RM41 with FS305-12G drive cage

useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Looks like a Chenbro rm-42000

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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