First, I would like to thank this community for being an understanding, open-minded and Novice friendly like myself. I have learned a lot in the past few weeks thanks to this community, unlike Reddit’s toxic communities where asking a question is illegal.

I have built most of my NAS; the only missing component (CPU) I will be collecting in the morning. I just wanted to ask general questions or tips. Dos and Donts. I will be using Unraid as OS.

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    9•6 months ago

    Unraid is great, I use it daily. I grew past it in some aspects, but it’s a great starter OS.

    Agree with other commenter. Don’t discount backups. Unraid is not a backup. Plan to lose all of your data someday.

  • @Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    7•6 months ago

    Here’s my advice. The most important things are that you have a free GPU slot and another PCIE slot on whatever you get. You’re going to want a GPU for transcoding when disk space gets tight. You want the extra PCIE slot for a sas card. Disk shelves are surprisingly cheap, and you can keep adding disk that way. They daisy chain.

    As far as the OS, I’m partial to Unraid and Truenas but seriously, anything you are comfortable with will work.

  • @bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    I don’t use unraid by my advice for everyone is that you can’t have too many backups of data that you really care about, use the 3-2-1 rule at a minimum.

    Also, welcome to your new hobby you will love and hate at the same time sometimes :D

  • @DecronymABEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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