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Curious what you've got installed on it. What do you use a lot but took awhile to find? What do you recommend?

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[–] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I have a proxmox host with a privileged lxc container offering samba and nfs shares. Drives are pooled as a btrfs RAID 1 (lets me use different sized drives easily).

I tried OMV etc. but found all of those options to be not really convenient once you start directly modifying config files. I love the convenience those offer but for something like NAS , less moving parts mean less breakage in my experience.

I use raid 1 for actual data but no raid for movies and media that is disposable (not photos etc.). Didn't find raid worthwhile in that scenario after having tried it. Might be because I didn't have enough $$ to truly spend on it.

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I just set up my first NAS -- a Synology 1522+, with 4x6TB drives in whatever Synology's custom raid is called where I lose one drive to redundancy.

So far, I mostly use if for my in-home Plex server (which finally lets me shut down my gaming rig at night while still letting me watch TV shows and listen to music to sleep, so big energy win there, I imagine). I'm considering running my own Matrix chat, PixelFed(?), maybe Mastodon and/or Lemmy on it for my local friends and family; but I'm still looking into solutions.

Would like to get off "Discord for everything", and I kind of miss what Facebook used to be in terms of just posting updates about my life and reading updates about other people's lives.

Not sure I trust Synology's built-in Chat and other replacement options to be as good as what I'd like, though, in terms of both quality and privacy/security. Happy to hear from folks with more experience!

[–] Muscular_Michael@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Synology RS1221+ and RX418 for main personal storage, media and device backups. Synology DS918 as a backup to personal data on RS1221+ Synology DS423 + Synology TC500/BC500 cameras for NVR surveillance Synology DS220+ offsite as a backup of personal data.

I like Synology for their ease of use in setting up. I just replaced an older SYnology and IP cameras with the DS423.

[–] stown@sedd.it 3 points 1 year ago

TrueNAS virtualized under Proxmox with HBA card passed through. I don't run apps on my NAS, it's just for storage.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago

I just have a Synology with 4 drives. Super basic and was very easy to set up and takes up very little space in a closet. I mount it to my Ubuntu server using samba, and then any data processing that needs to be done on that data (e.g. plex, music server, etc.) is done on the server, which is much more powerful than the little Celeron CPU that the Synology has.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I have an Ubuntu VM running on my Proxmox server. It just exports some folders over NFS that I mount from my laptops and PC. Then I have Nextcloud running in a separate VM so my phone can upload photos. The NC storage is all the NFS mounted folders from the NAS. Simple and works.

[–] alpaca_math@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I have a Synology DS 918+. I run just their apps for photos, surveillance station & as file sever. Separately I run promox on Intel NUC for services need more resources than the NAS has such as Plex (with transcoding), home assistant & another AI like NVR called frigate (with TPU). Overall it’s a good low power & stable setup but the fan on NUC can be annoyingly loud at times.

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