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How to expand your NAS with USB drives – and why it’s not always a good idea
Expanding the capacity of even the best NAS is simple. Fill the enclosure with as many drives as it supports, and add an external enclosure once the primary system is fully populated. Larger drives can replace smaller capacities as they reach their end of life, but there’s also the possibility of using USB drives to expand capacity. Whether or not you should do this is a different matter altogether.
In my own case, I do actually use the USB interfaces on my home server. But I have USB-SATA connectors going to each 4 TB hard drive. At 2am every morning, the server does an incremental rsync backup from drive 1 to drive 2. So I don’t sit with the drives running all day long in a RAID configuration. For me, it’s working fine right now.
See xda-developers.com/how-to-expa…
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You can actually turn an old phone into a NAS
If you’re a tech enthusiast like me, chances are you have an old phone or two lying around unused. While it’s not necessarily the best use for it, you can definitely take one of those older devices and use it as a rudimentary NAS (network attached storage device) for sharing data across all your devices.
On top of that, if you really want to take things a step further, you can root an old Android phone and set up Docker on it. From there, you can host normal applications that you would on any other NAS and deploy them on your network, including running things like Pi-hole or Jellyfin. They’re making just a NAS out of an Android phone, but you can easily host a Nextcloud Pi server on your smartphone if it’s rooted.
We forget that yesterday’s flagship, or even mid-range, phones are actually pretty powerful devices, often a fair bit of storage. With a USB hub plugged in, you can attach storage, an Ethernet connection, and more.
Repurposing an old phone, instead of throwing it out, is certainly also cutting down on e-waste.
See xda-developers.com/how-turned-…
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Ich brauche wohl doch ein #NAS - auf Dauer ist ein Pi mit einer Handvoll USB-Platten wohl doch nicht optimal :-)
Was ich gerne hätte: keine Herstellersoftware, kein RAID. Ich möchte selber bauen mit Debian und ZFS, da kriege ich dann auch ein RAID-Z1.
Also im Prinzip suche ich einen kleinen Rechner mit mindestens vier SATA(?)-Einschüben, 16 GB RAM (ZFS dedup und ein paar Serverdienste, Docker), CPU egal.
Gibts sowas für einen angemessenen Preis?
HexOS: Homeserver und NAS für jedermann
https://linuxnews.de/hexos-homeserver-und-nas-fuer-jedermann/ #NAS
HexOS: Homeserver und NAS für jedermann - LinuxNews.de
UGreen NASync DXP4800+ im ersten Test
https://linuxnews.de/ugreen-nasync-dxp4800-im-ersten-test/ #NAS
Should you build your own NAS or buy a pre-built?
An interesting read, and I have to say I do lean more towards building your own. I did buy a bare-bones NAS by D-Link many years ago because you could add your own hard drives, but what I discovered after a few years was there were no more software updates, and it is not easy to upgrade later on either.
Today I’m running a bare-bones Intel NUC box with two external laptop hard drives (powered through USB), and Open Media Vault NAS software on it. I get ongoing software updates and can upgrade RAM and drives etc. That said, its throughput is not that great as the drives are connected via USB cables. It boots from a SATA connected SSD drive. It also has Docker running on it with a few applications hosted in Docker containers, so it is quite versatile.
Knowing what I know now, I would rather have bought something that would allow proper SATA connectors to the hard drives for way better throughput speed.
See xda-developers.com/building-vs…
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I created an iSCSI volume on my #MyCloud #NAS to hold the #postgres data that the pod uses. ISCSI is fairly fast (85MB/s writes), and more importantly it’s not stored locally on any of the #k3s nodes, so the server can move to any node and still access the data on the volume. That means that I can drain that node, upgrade it, and the downtime is limited to a few seconds.
Basically I’m creating a redundant array of inexpensive compute (I’m running on three $150 mini PCs) to go with my redundant array of inexpensive disks. If a single node or disk fails, the other nodes/disks will pick up the load until the bad unit is replaced.
How to turn an old PC into a NAS
A dedicated NAS may be highly functional but they are often pretty pricey… You often also don’t get a decent resale value on your recently replaced, but perfectly functional, PC.
There are a few reasons that you may want to use an older PC, but the biggest is simply just the act of recycling. If you have a perfectly good PC lying around not doing anything, why would you go out and buy a NAS instead of just putting your old computer to work? Especially because older computers like those are probably going to be more powerful than most NAS devices that you would pick up, it’s really just a no-brainer.
There is also some quite nice 3rd party NAS software to choose from, that also helps make the device quite flexible in terms of functionality.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/how-turn-old-pc-into-nas/
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Storage question.
The 4TB disks in my ancient Synology NAS are getting old and close to the moment where I am considering replacing them. As I said: ancient Synology. It's well over 10 years old.
Would it an option to replace this NAS with a Nextbox? (https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nextbox-116)
I'm looking at a 4GB Ram/5TB HDD version. The only drawback I see is there are no mirrored disks, as the Synology has.
#Nextcloud #Synology #NAS #Storage
You can build your own NAS home server and save $100s
Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiralling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to back up your photos or stream 4K movies on your travels, there’s a wide range of products to pick from, but not quite so many to suit all budgets.
If you’ve been tempted by one of the best NAS systems but are put off by the expense or lack of gradual upgrade paths, building a cheap DIY NAS could be a better alternative for you.
I have a mini-PC running OpenMediaVault at home, with two external notebook drives (they power off USB power). OpenMediaVault runs a daily backup which copies data from the primary drive over to the second drive. It’s not fancy, but it offers a couple of home-hosted services that I run inside the house, as well as a Nginx Proxy Manager service that securely manages any external connections from the Internet.
The only downside is that the combination of LAN network, mini-PC power, and externally connected drives via USB, means that it has been too sluggish for me to do proper desktop backups over the LAN to it. Maybe I must try tuning it again, but this is a potential bottleneck if you wanted to back up hundreds of gigabytes of data. Still, it is highly functional, and I find it very worthwhile running. All my self-hosted services are running in Docker containers under OpenMediaVault.
So, as the article says about some options, you can go extremely budget, or if you pay a bit more, you get more functionality and speed. Off-the-shelf NAS hardware is a great way to get started, especially if you’re limited on time. But hopefully, this guide will convince you that a self-built PC or Mini-PC/DAS setup is a great way to take control of the setup yourself. Plus, it’ll cost you significantly less and net you a lot more hardware than a Synology or QNAP.
See https://www.androidauthority.com/cheap-diy-nas-server-3348392/
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#Nas (Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones) 9/14/1973 #Birth US rapper, songwriter and actor
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