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Hi !

I started my selfhosted journey with a synology nas. But the nas was crap, so I ended using it only as storage and backup solution, providing NFS shares. I added SBC like raspberry pi, then upgraded it to a elitedesk running debian.

I would like to upgrade my nas to a more powerful device but I'm also considering adding a sata extension dock and rely only on my elitedesk minipc instead of two devices.

Can I get remarks and advices?

Thanks!

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[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having a separate machine as a NAS is good, running TrueNAS or XigmaNAS. You can segregate your backups from your daily use, you can have automated tasks run, etc.

Machine wise, I'm gonna try out a Beelink with nvme slots. Right now I'm using a Proliant microserver. Don't get one with a hardware RAID card as you want to be able to use zfs. But otherwise they sell pretty cheap on Ebay.

Totally agree on keeping storage separate - if your compute device crashes, you don't risk your data, and you can easily swap/upgrade either component indepedently without disrupting the other.