First, I would like to thank this community for being an understanding, open-minded and Novice friendly like myself. I have learned a lot in the past few weeks thanks to this community, unlike Reddit’s toxic communities where asking a question is illegal.

I have built most of my NAS; the only missing component (CPU) I will be collecting in the morning. I just wanted to ask general questions or tips. Dos and Donts. I will be using Unraid as OS.

  • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    9 months ago

    unlike Reddit’s toxic communities where asking a question is illegal.

    I agree Reddit is toxic. I’d argue reddit actually stopped being Reddit around 2016. But it’s posts like this that clog it all up and are partially why it is the way it is today. You didn’t even ask a question. You just posted a comment and said give me information. You don’t respond to anyone kind enough to ask questions to you,so they can get the slightest insight into what information may be useful to you. I don’t see anything about what you have already looked into. I see nothing about intention or use case. You babbled something about a CPU. I dunno. I’ll take the downvotes but just because you say please and thank you doesn’t make your post any less of a waste of bits.

    Maybe provide some info about your setup. Your requirements?

    • what are you trying to accomplish with a raid setup? Speed, storage or maybe redundancy?
    • what kind of drives are you planning on using? This can be a huge deal.
    • what’s your budget?
    • how many drives?
    • what kind of data? Large files? Tons of small files?
    • what kind of storage controller are you using?

    There are a lot of tech people in lemmy who do storage and compute for a living, but they are going to need something from you. Don’t be like Reddit. Meet us half way.

    BTW. I’ve worked with a lot of folks in tech over the years. All at different levels of experience. I don’t care what field you are in or what your expertise is…. the most newb move is not knowing how to ask questions. The rest is just work and time. Best of luck friend.

    • osarusan@kbin.social
      7·
      9 months ago

      I agree Reddit is toxic. I’d argue reddit actually stopped being Reddit around 2016. But it’s posts like this that clog it all up and are partially why it is the way it is today.

      I gotta agree with this. The toxicity in any reddit thread increases dramatically when the poster pre-emptively complains about all the toxicity they expect to receive. Whereas when you just ask straight without going into a whole speech about comment quality, you get much better replies. Particularly because it’s hijacking your own thread; changing it from whatever question you wanted to ask into an analysis of the comments.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      To your point, I clicked on this post hoping to see what OP was going to use and why because I would like to build my own NAS some day. But like you said, this post is a waste of everyone’s time.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Well said.

      The spirit of Self-Hosting is trying things and then asking specific questions when you get stuck (stuck includes having no luck using a search engine).

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Unraid is great, I use it daily. I grew past it in some aspects, but it’s a great starter OS.

    Agree with other commenter. Don’t discount backups. Unraid is not a backup. Plan to lose all of your data someday.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    What OS are you planning on running? I personally use FreeNAS(TrueNAS) and largely love it. There’s a steep initial learning curve, but it’s not too high.

    I run it in a VM inside of esxi so I don’t need a lot of it’s more advanced features. But I do have a jail with deluge in it to handle my torrents. Deluge isn’t up to the task though so I may migrate to a separate VM with something else, or just make a new jail with a different client.

  • Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Here’s my advice. The most important things are that you have a free GPU slot and another PCIE slot on whatever you get. You’re going to want a GPU for transcoding when disk space gets tight. You want the extra PCIE slot for a sas card. Disk shelves are surprisingly cheap, and you can keep adding disk that way. They daisy chain.

    As far as the OS, I’m partial to Unraid and Truenas but seriously, anything you are comfortable with will work.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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  • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I don’t use unraid by my advice for everyone is that you can’t have too many backups of data that you really care about, use the 3-2-1 rule at a minimum.

    Also, welcome to your new hobby you will love and hate at the same time sometimes :D