ItsMeBrandon_G

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Family NAS Almost Done, Just missing a few items. in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] ItsMeBrandon_G@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm using both on board and HBA. The psu I have listed has 14 sata connectors for power, and on corsair site you can get sata sleeves to plug in additional drives.

I emailed Corsair and asked if you can get them from their website for about 16$ each.

I'm not doing those cheap molex to sata adapters either.

Family NAS Almost Done, Just missing a few items. in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] ItsMeBrandon_G@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I still have yet to purchase the PSU or graphics card, i'm hoping I can find something cheaper. I did forget to mention that.

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Family NAS Almost Done, Just missing a few items. (alien.top)
 

Hello Fellow DataHoarders,

I've been working on a new build, and while I've had to some searching, I believe it will be almost complete before Christmas if I am lucky.

Parts List:
-- CPU: Ryzen 1800X (left over from upgrade)
-- MB: ASRock Tachi x370 (from ebay, spoke with seller)
-- RAM: 32GB DDR4-3600 (from ebay, same seller, even tossed in a Ryzen 1700 for free)
-- FAN: AMD Wraith Spire
-- GPU: MSI 1650 4GB PCI-E 3.0
-- HBA: LSI SAS 9300-16i
-- SSD: 1x250gb (OS/Ubuntu/Unraid/Trunas Scale) 3x2tb Samsung
-- HDD: 6x12TB Ironwolf + 8x14tb WDC H530 Ultrastar + 6x16tb WDC H550 Ulrastar (mixed batch)
-- PSU: Corsair 2021e (1000w)
-- CASE: Fractal 7 XL (Can hold up to 20 3.5"

My hope is that this will last some time before I ever have to upgrade again. This build is for family so it no doubt have a plethora of entertainment to stream from it, this will also be the third NAS I will be having running, but this will also have a lot more connected people streaming 1080/4k from it nonstop.

I also got a free cpu of it, so I could put that in my next build. Total I spent around 550$ because I had most of the parts, the drives I bought some and the family pitched in and bought some. I have my own private nas that holds 15x16tb of drives + 3 ssds for cache. I also have a networked drive that runs to another nas that is used for temp storage, (i.e. downloads, video uploads, recordings, and if I have edit for someone they can just login and upload their footage to it.

They will be excited this Christmas and it will probably be full by Feburary.

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Looking at building first homelab. (alien.top)
 

Hi,

So after a couple months of saving I am looking at building my first homelab server using proxmox or going unraid. Now My current desktop is and AMD 5700G with 32GB DDR4-3600 & NVIDIA 3070 12gb with Asrock B550 motherboard which is what I use for daily activities.

Since this will be holding a large number of drives (16) the bulk use of it will be plex media server or jellyfin. I also plan to run some VM's & Dockers as well.

I'm debating on doing an intel i5 11th/12th gen build with onboard graphics for video transcoding, and encoding as I do make videos for youtube, facebook.. with motherboard, ddr5 and lsi raid card flashed to IT mode.

Or should I just upgrade my desktop to a newer intel 14th gen or ryzen 7000x series with board & ram and use the 5700g as my homelab server?

I do have a 1660ti I can put in it as well.

As for case either 4U Rackmount or Fractal Meshify, more leaning to the Meshify.

Not many good deals today? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] ItsMeBrandon_G@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't see many deals, I did grab a couple 16tb's off serverpartsdeals.com in order to fill up the remaining 2 3.5" bays I have one server. That and a friend of who's giving up data hoarding sold me 7 slightly used 20tb wd essentials for a bargain, which I'm not going to even shuck those I'll keep them as offline backups.

Best options for storing private adult/sensitive content? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] ItsMeBrandon_G@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Linux has Luks which is very effective, all my machines are encrypted using Linux LUKS, I don't really ever use Windows for encryption I know bitlocker exists but I've read articles on how people can still get access to the drives.

To keep people off certain folders, drives, you would need to setup user or group permissions. I do this in Linux as well, only I have access to the 18+ stuff.

Hardware wise you can find enterprise drives that have encryption built into it. I know some WDC drives have it.

Here is an link to WDC drives that have AES-256 encryption built into it: WDC Drives I would expect them to cost a bit more, but if you really need the protection I would build a machine with Linux as the main OS, and then configure the drives under luks with passwords, hell even a passkey file using random 2048 string can be configured. Run Windows under Virtual Machines, I have a 10/11 VM that can read/write to the drives, but you still need a password to open the VM's.

I'm sure there is a solution for you. Just like I've found one for me.

What drives do you all use for NAS? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] ItsMeBrandon_G@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb's for 126.99$ each from serverpartsdeals.com over the last six months. Comes with a 2 year warranty, which is about what you would expect a drive to have anyways.

I also have a dozen Ironwolf 12tb's (no pro) which have 3yr warranty, but still, if I had new about the recertified drives then I would've been all over those.

Really its about how much space do you need, how many SATA slots can you fill, and your use for them.