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To NAS or not to NAS? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by I_want_pudim@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hello there, I'm in this rabbit hole of self hosting, but it's just for me and my wife, mostly for me though.

I've put together on a broken laptop of 10yo, Ubuntu server 500gb (motherboard) + 2TB storage (DVD tray), CasaOS, Nextcloud, Immich and Plex.

I have a total of 300gb of photos and videos (including immich dB) , 50Gb of docs (including nextcloud dB), and everything else is disposable, like some movies.

I do not plan to have extra services, maybe a password manager.

In this black Friday I'll buy a mini pc i5 and another 2TB drive to store zipped/encrypted backup files. And will most likely try proxmox there.

Now to the point, I'm seeing a lot people doing NAS separately, and some even putting things like Plex on the NAS server and not on the "main server". And the question is, don't I already have a NAS? My Ubuntu is sharing 2TB through the network, I'm configuring backups (with duplicati). What would I really gain if I buy a cheap synology NAS only for a shared folder? The mini pc I'll buy with i5 16gb won't do a better job than a cheap 1ghz 2mb memory NAS?

I hope I make sense, thanks in advance.

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds like a NAS product would be a waste of money for you.

The next step for you is adding more drives, setting up some sort of zfs or RAID array, and setting up automatic remote backups to somewhere like Backblaze.