Homelabs

Any recommendations for a NAS? No big requirements. Happy to dive into technical rabbit holes. Looking to start with a 5-10TB raid setup.

I'm the absolute worst hoarder of photos/videos and refuse to delete anything, so I'd like to setup a more permanent storage setup. Currently, I just have random drives lying around :(

engineering at /privy. building pixelpool.xyz, the first Farcaster video client. nyc. 👨‍💻🍎🏳️‍🌈  nf.td/payton

Synology if you want something that just works, otherwise the most common rabbit hole is

TrueNAS operating system + power efficient motherboard + chassis + planning ahead for ZFS file system.

Both ask you to bring your own drives. The former being more flexible while the latter being more mature of a file system.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Known for the everywhere.computer (/ec), /unglish (unglish.co.uk), the /secure-design WG, WalletUncon, Causal Islands + drumming in all-genre power trios.

Cursory Reddit research tells me they have some security vulnerabilities and that the UI is not as friendly as Synology.

The latter I can easily believe, the former statement I would dive deeper into and see how true it is and if more robust networking can be a remedy.

But also being lesser known of the two brands means less support and text artifacts to dig through for when things go wrong.

I like supporting up and comers but maybe not with my most value data!

Super helpful - thank you! Already being nerd sniped looking into TrueNAS