Hi!
Originally, I just wanted advice for an NAS to host my videos and tv-series I aquired in the last couple years but whilst researching, I found a couple things that I think are neat, but have no idea how to start.
First things first: I wanted originally a QNAP TS-364 to host my movie/series collection to consolidate everything and don't have to switch between drives any more. After finding this community, I'm toying around with the idea that I could build something myself, and use it to fix some things I want to fix some time now.
But for this task, I could use some help/advice to where to start, hardware, software, the works.
For latency / up- & downloadspeed, I'd like to have the server at home, fairly quiet, low power consumption and able to "stream" everything (movies / series) over LAN to my TV(s) or PC, maybe music to my mobile sometime in the future.
I'd like to use pi-hole for adblocking, host some non-media-files to get rid of Dropbox but keep its funcitonality to sync these files between two/three physical locations, including one mobile device (android) and sync passwords for my accounts. I guess a VPN for syncing would be benefitial.
In the future, I may want to add a usenet downloader but I'm not sure about that. Also, i just flew over the "awesome-selfhosted software" resource and my mind is kinda blown, so I may want to add some software to the list later.
Storage requirements: currently at least 12TB for media, upgradeable, no RAID needed ATM, JBOD would suffice but you never know.
To cut to the chase:
- What hardware would you suggest? Off the shelf or DIY (I'm no stranger to building PCs and installing OSes. (Bonus points if sub 250 Euro without storage)
- What OS would you recommend?
- What software would you recommend?
Thanks in advance Andy
You may want to check out TrueNAS Scale for the OS, it is designed to be a NAS OS. You can run containers like Plex and PiHole from it.
I don't think I can recommend True NAS for beginners over Unraid. I started down this road about a year ago and did start with Truenas. The apps have been nothing but trouble for me and I've read similar from several others. I'm in the process of moving to Unraid now because of it as well as sharing permissions causing performance issues.
Unraid is paid only if you have over 3(?) drives.
I personally run Proxmox with TrueNAS virtualized and an HBA card passed through. All my "apps" run in VMs on Proxmox and I only use TrueNAS as a NAS.