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Simple NAS hardware for home use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Yo.

I'm new to the game. Like 2h fresh. I'm fairly technical, being a millennial and a programmer.

What I want to do, is to have a NAS server I can host movies from and watch them on my phone in my bed - or on my projector.

Extra points if I could host my ebooks and music there and run a torrent client. Extra extra points if I could connect to it from outside my home network (and stream)

I've read about about Plex and Jellyfin.

I'm here to ask you about hardware advice.

Will QNAP or Synology be enough for my needs and can I install custom software there? I don't really want to create hardware from scratch.

Google says yes, but I trust reddit and random articles like I trust a fox not to eat chickens.

Edit: preferably something with WOL that goes silent and fanless when not in use, or something I can shut down with a button

Edit: thanks everyone, right now I'm thinking of using GMKTec or QNAP and am comparing options, prices and number of issues people have on the internet. I'm not a hobbyist and the less I have to work on it the better.

Edit: I've ordered GMKTec NucBox G3 Plus 16 GB 1T for 195$ from their site as my starter kit. Should work for my needs.

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[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you~!

I want to spend as little time on it as I can. Then I'd like to minimize the initial cost of it, or at least cost of exploitation.

I'm fairly busy with my hobbies (Lego and Arkham Horror LCG), so I'm looking for the solution. I'd rather spend more money than more time.

On the other hand, if I waste money on garbage I'm going to be cross and do it from the scratch again, so I'm trying to hedge my options before I commit - if that makes sense.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Well like I said you can start running servers right now for free with your desktop. Then your best bet is in my opinion going to be buying a NUC, Elitedesk, or another smaller form factor PC, this will save you on energy costs and noise, and flashing truenas to it (Or you can run everything you need to in Windows or Linux or containers if that's what you're comfortable with) and using either external hard drives or getting a hard drive array and using that to store everything. This is going to cost more than a Synology and takes a little setting up but it's infinitely expandable and will suit your needs whatever they become. And don't forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups. These rules are written in blood. And RAID is not a backup, I learned that one the hard way, myself.