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Although he owns a monitor, he does not own a NAS, so tag along as Plouffe ventures into building one and sharing his thoughts!
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Check out some of the parts from the build:
Intel Core i3 12100 (4 Core) 3.30 GHz Processor:
ASUS Prime B760M-A D4 LGA1700 Motherboard:
Silverstone Technology 450W SFX Form Factor 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply:
Silverstone Extreme 500 Bronze 80 Plus Bronze 500W SFX Power Supply:
Seagate IronWolf Pro, 8 TB, Enterprise NAS Drives:
JONSBO N6 NAS PC Case:
JONSBO N5 NAS PC Case:
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:28 The Plan
2:33 The Build
5:00 Storage
10:00 Software Install
14:53 How Did It Go?
19:01 Conclusion
23:23 Outro
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At 17:27, our on screen note has a typo. It should read Windows 11 24H2.
Explain for non-English speaker
What's the meaning of a joke of 'He need a NAS'?
I understand that's a typo but don't understand why there's so much hype about this in the comments
17:19 – as soon as I heard your fix alarm bells went off. This sounds like you had to enable SMB1 (disabled by default) and disable signing. SMB1 is insecure and turning off signing is also less secure. I woukd guess something is misconfigured on the NAS if you are required to downgrade your security to connect to it.
So… As someone who has a current Qnap 6 bay Nas and needs more space…. Should I look at a expansion box or change to an alternative? I love the fact my phone backs up to my 'own' cloud automatically, I can get to my files globally, and multi client's can all access my plex at the same time, a local, and several remotes both in and out of the country. But a new empty case as a slave is a $US 1K….before I add more drives.
Life is good with NAS
The gold mine is host managed SMR drives from data centers. I got a 14tb drive with just 100 USD more or less. The downside, it's linux only.
Ah yes, Jonsbo N5, I also done a NAS build with it on my channel, really good case
btw. you need to check for cooling for HBA, without any fan in a traditional case it gets REALLY HOT
>Needing a license
It's not like they're claiming it is any good, but this is a TERRIBLE NAS build. Gaming motherboard, stickers on the drives(??), HBA necessary because of the motherboard choice, this thing will draw power like crazy and likely run very hot and loud.
I don't agree with the HBA. It adds cost and often breaks ASPM. Say goodbye to entering lower C states so add 20-30w on idle. You could use an ASM1166 on an M.2 or PCIe and avoid the problems.
Gaming motherboards are not made for 24/7/365 use
Thumbnail made me think it was a cute little case. Still recovering from the shock.
17:22 Windows 22?
for a single reason I would be recommending Unraid again and again : the ability to use mismatched drives… For the "normal" people, you want to replace your drives one by one as they age and be able to select a bigger one so that your NAS overall storage gradually goes up. I love TrueNAS too, but for that single reason, I'll stay on Unraid for my home NAS.
What's the RAID he went for? Was it mentioned?
seems like an ad for HexOS
The way I set up my NAS was a bit simple, debian server on the headless laptop (rocking an ancient intel i3 2nd gen with 4gb of ddr3 1300MHz RAM), cockpit to manage it all, Samba for access and tailscale to have good internet speed while with it, connected to my router directly by ethernet, and on phone i use it by accessing VLC. I cant transcode on there (for obvious reasons its as old as some people watching this video/reading this comment rn) and yeah, it runs great, the max speed ive got is 10MegaBytes per second which is more than enough for seamless streaming and to play light enough games if i choose to
yeah its not great nor flashy, but its a use of a laptop that was collecting dust
"disabling SMB singing by default" … i had a lot of fun with that Windows update…
Linus how did you miss the opportunity to sing some Bare Naked Ladies with the "It's been one week… Since you got a NAS"
Proxmox FTW
I would also love a NAS server for my home. Problem is my country's high burglary rates, as well as high electricity and hardware prices. So I switched to an EU-based cloud storage that supports Linux natively and offers 2TB for 9€ a month.
its almost like windows is the problem….
I love god and my life and my luck. I LITERALLY STARTED YESTERDAY planing and researching to DIY my own NAS with external access
Big mistake not picking truenas. when it comes to storing your precious data, you gotta go with the industry standard, no less.
Beautiful huh…well hey if you think so! Enjoy!
LTT has come to a point where they make cool video's, but give terrible financial advice!
If your Budget is tight, this is not the video for you. An expensive NAS offers NO better Utility than a cheap one.
My first experiments were with a cheap 150€ mini PC with an N100 processor and 2 old external HDDs and Proxmox as a hypervisor with OMV as my NAS Software. (Free by the way!)
Technically, I did EVERYTHING WRONG. But it works and gave me a good impression of how I would utilise my NAS.
Fast forward a year, I have upgraded to a professional all in One Solution: my Ugreen DXP2800.
It also has "just" an N100 CPU, 8 Gigs of Ram, 2 16TB NAS drives (by the way, Iron Wolf drives are LOUD! Get them only if they are cheaper than WD-Reds!) and 2x 1TB SSDs.
The whole Setup cost me ~800€ (yes I got lucky and Built it before the AI storage wars).
What shall I say? It runs perfectly!
UG-OS Pro is pretty amazing now!
And a NAS that costs twice as much does not offer any added benefit. You could always upscale your storage, but honestly, what's the point? I digitized my whole media library and through the Magic of transcoding it now takes up only 5TB of Storage. I still have 11TB left for my entire future. I should be fine!
The most important discipline you will have to learn is not how to be a good Admin, but how to do good data management!
Cheers!
I'd try HexOS if it wasn't so expensive.
This video is so stupid. Stickers on HDD, advising to use SMR and fitting a HBA x8 in a x4 slot when a x16 slot is free.
People watch your videos expecting to learn from you.
12100 does NOT have AV1 support. It can only decode AV1. A cheap Arc A310 on the other hand does have it and QuickSync still has the best hardware transcoding video quality