Hello, i want to get into the self hosting game and have some questions about it. I hope that this community may help me (i already learnt so much by reading posts in this community).

  1. I want to self host an NAS and some home server applications like Immich, Homeassistant, Jellyfin and parts of the *Arr stack. Would it be advisable to get a mini-PC and a separate NAS or can i put this on the same appliance together? Was thinking about getting a NAS from Terramaster and i am not sure if i need a separate mini PC.
  2. If i would go with the all in one solution, would TrueNAS Scale be enough? I saw some recommendations to get Promox and run TrueNAS Scale for the NAS management and Promox container for everything else.
  3. If i would go with the separate solutions how would i handle seeding? Since the mini-PC would run the *Arr Suite with qBittorrent would it be able to download directly to the NAS and hardlink the stuff there or would seeding require two copies, one on the mini-pc and another one on the NAS?

I hope my problems are clear, i tried searching for it but did not find a satisfying answer, which is why i am asking here. Thanks in advance

  • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    1. It depends of what you want as future proof (expansion capabilities). Usually home user nases come with low power cpu, a high power cpu usually is a enterprise grade nas, really costly for a home user. So having it separated makes the cpu upgrade easy but now you have 2 boxes. But if your terramaster comes with a decent cpu I don’t see any problem.

    2. True nas scale is really a behemoth able of almost everything. I would start with something more reduced like omv or unraid. You really don’t need the advance enterprise features of that and it will add only complexity to the setup.

    3. If you use NFS for exporting folders from your nas, the “computing box” will see this as a local folder, so no need to have 2 copies of the same file.

    Hope it helps

    • AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earthOP
      1·
      4 days ago
      1. Yeah CPU seems to be a “problem” with a lot of NAS devices. Especially for hardware transcoding.
      2. My thinking was, that i can just ignore the features that I don’t need but then i won’t have to change it in the future when i need more features.
      3. Ahh, thank you.
      • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        The problem with such advance Sw is the overwhelming list of options and the lacks of sane defaults

        It is not the same to find 10 different (and complex) solutions when you are evaluating what you can do for solving a problem. It adds more noise to the solution than anything else. And of course the minimum resources needed ;)

        For the downloading I suggest you to have the download folder and the main storage both exported under the same nfs folder. Quite handy.