I’m finally taking the leap from upgrading from a media drive sitting in my desktop PC to a self-build NAS. The parts are on their way and I have to figure out what to do when they actually arrive.

Current setup: Desktop PC with a single 20TB media drive (zfs, 15TB in use)

My knowledge: I use Linux as my daily driver, but I’m far from a power user. I can figure out and fix problems with online resources or the kind help of others like you

The goal: I want to move to a small NAS (2 additional 20TB drives are on their way). The system will have 32GB of DDR5 RAM. 1 disk parity for 40TB of usable storage

What will I use it for:

  • Backup for Desktop PC
  • Media server (Jellyfin)
  • Arr stack
  • (other small services int he future?)

My questions:

  1. What OS should I use? The obvious answers being Unraid or TrueNAS. The 40TB of storage (1 disk parity) will likely be enough for a couple of years. So adding additional drives is not planned for some time.

  2. How can I import the data from my current drive to the NAS? I am very new to the topic and my initial searches were not that helpful. With Unraid I should just be able to setup the first two disks and import the data from the other. I am unsure how to accomplish that with TrueNAS.

Some advice and tips would be great. Feel free to ask for more details if I forgot some crucial info.

Thanks for reading!

  • captainfeeny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    I’ve been running mine on Unraid for the last 4 years or so, and I have no complaints. Probably you can’t go wrong with TrueNAS either. The big advantage of Unraid, as I understand it, is the ability to add arbitrary drive sizes in the future, if you want. But you might not run into that benefit for a while…

    • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’m done fiddling with software and want stuff that works without much hassle. Unraid is super easy, I am in the process of building a home server with it, similar setup to OP.

      I plan on moving my media files to the server through my LAN via FreeFileSync.

  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I had truenas installed bare metal, with some jails for emby (jellyfin) and Adguard etc worked well enough but I wanted a little more flexibility.

    I installed proxmox on the machine itself, and fired up a truenas VM and passed through the discs (for now until I get an HBA card).

    Tons more flexibility.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    1 month 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
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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