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DIY NAS & Homeserver (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

Since r/NAS is not available and the [email protected] could not provide that much help I am here again to ask stuff ;D.

My 10years old NAS quited work and I am looking for my opportunities. And since I am tinkering with my raspi and am generally interested in selfhosting stuff like jellyfin, joplin e.g. I decided to take the step to build my own Nas instead of buying another Synology device.

I would like to provide my needs but since I am not sure about it it is only a try... Moreover I cannot say where the journey will take me to^^

What I know:

4 sata slots so I can use my actual drives and have the option to upgrade
Transcoding with jellyfin would be nice
having my own cloud storage is a long term aim
joplin server
maybe some terraria dedicated server could be cool also
low power usage and low noise are two criteria i would consider important since the energy prices only know one direction where I life
x64 architecture to use debian server or TrueNas Scale (I need to dive deeper into TrueNas before deciding)

My former favorite is this fanless board:
MITAC PD11EHI-J6413 MINI-ITX
Con:

I realised that the second M.2 slot does not supports M key SSDs but I planned to run the OS on an NVME... and since there is no PCIe the singel M.2 slot with M Key support is the only way to upgrade to 4 sata slots.

My actual favorite (but more expensive) choice seems to be:
MITAC PD10EHI-N6415
Con:

price (not so much of problem)

ECC compatibility feels unnecessary.

Is there anything that I have forgotten? Any better choices from european vendors? Ordering from america is not an option because it would take forever to arrive and the process to get it from the zoll is time consuming and would put taxes on top.

Thanks in advance 😊

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fyi you will not be able to do live video transcoding with a raspberry pi. I overclocked my pi4's CPU and GPU and it just can't handle anything but direct play and maybe audio stream transcoding, though I've never had luck with any transcoding period. I either download a format I know can direct play or recently started using tdarr (server on pi, node running on my desktop when I need it) to transcode into a direct play format before it hits my Jellyfin library. Even just using my AMD Ryzen 5 (no GPU) it transcodes like 100x faster than a tdarr node given 2 of the rpi cpu cores. You could probably live transcode with a decent CPU (newer Intel CPUs are apparently very good at it) if you run Jellyfin on the NAS but then you're at odds with your low power consumption goals. Otherwise rpi Jellyfin is great.

Good luck, I'd like to build a NAS myself at some point to replace or supplement my Synology.