2020-08-26, 11:13
Hi,
I'm looking for some advise on setting up my own NAS at home. I'm only doing this to get some safety if one of my HD's would ever crash. I know, I know, a NAS and RAID, unRAID,... are no replacement for a backup I'm mainly doing this for my movies/tv shows/music. All my really important files are backed up properly and to the cloud too. I can always get the movies/... back but it takes effort. I'm checking in these forums since i assume a lot of people here will be in the same boat as i am.
I'm not looking for somebody to guide me through the process of setting everything up, i can find tutorials, youtube videos,... to help me with the setup. What i'm after is the right software to use files system and raid config ideas. So the what, not the how.
I'm open to hardware suggestions for upgrades in the future, but for now i don't have any money to change anything HD wise (Corona times and no job).
My current setup is:
Intel NUC 7th Gen Core i3 with 16GB ram
SSD Bootdrive
SSD 2.5 Data Drive
Powered USB3 HUB
2x WD 2TB HD USB3
1x WD 4TB HD USB3
TV is my monitor
Nvidia Shield with Kodi on other TV
I use Win 10 with Emby as media server and Kodi as a front end on the NUC
The 3 External HD's contain my movies and are shared so all my connected devices play direct from them no transcoding going on in emby.
I also run Home Assistant in a Hyper-V VM, just to play around with.
So now come the point where i'm asking for help
I can stick with Windows, it's what i know. My options here are to use something like Storage Spaces or DrivePool to pool my drives together and set some sort of raid1 or raid5 up. I also ran into something called SnapRaid which seems interesting if i understand correctly what it does.
OR
I could go the proper NAS OS route and go with FreeNAS, OMV, unRAID,...
Here I lack knowledge, but i do like tinkering with things and i have plenty of time to learn.
OMV seems interesting, it allows me to install Emby, Home Assistant, PiHole, and a bunch of other stuff in Docker containers. Never worked with them, but i understand the concept.
I have some spare external HD's to play around with while setting things up, so i would not have to use my 3 in use HD's with media on them.
So does this community have any valuable input about what direction i should take?
What would give me the best experience, best data speeds, what's the safest option?
I hope this word salad makes some sense, thanks for reading and hopefully answering
I'm looking for some advise on setting up my own NAS at home. I'm only doing this to get some safety if one of my HD's would ever crash. I know, I know, a NAS and RAID, unRAID,... are no replacement for a backup I'm mainly doing this for my movies/tv shows/music. All my really important files are backed up properly and to the cloud too. I can always get the movies/... back but it takes effort. I'm checking in these forums since i assume a lot of people here will be in the same boat as i am.
I'm not looking for somebody to guide me through the process of setting everything up, i can find tutorials, youtube videos,... to help me with the setup. What i'm after is the right software to use files system and raid config ideas. So the what, not the how.
I'm open to hardware suggestions for upgrades in the future, but for now i don't have any money to change anything HD wise (Corona times and no job).
My current setup is:
Intel NUC 7th Gen Core i3 with 16GB ram
SSD Bootdrive
SSD 2.5 Data Drive
Powered USB3 HUB
2x WD 2TB HD USB3
1x WD 4TB HD USB3
TV is my monitor
Nvidia Shield with Kodi on other TV
I use Win 10 with Emby as media server and Kodi as a front end on the NUC
The 3 External HD's contain my movies and are shared so all my connected devices play direct from them no transcoding going on in emby.
I also run Home Assistant in a Hyper-V VM, just to play around with.
So now come the point where i'm asking for help
I can stick with Windows, it's what i know. My options here are to use something like Storage Spaces or DrivePool to pool my drives together and set some sort of raid1 or raid5 up. I also ran into something called SnapRaid which seems interesting if i understand correctly what it does.
OR
I could go the proper NAS OS route and go with FreeNAS, OMV, unRAID,...
Here I lack knowledge, but i do like tinkering with things and i have plenty of time to learn.
OMV seems interesting, it allows me to install Emby, Home Assistant, PiHole, and a bunch of other stuff in Docker containers. Never worked with them, but i understand the concept.
I have some spare external HD's to play around with while setting things up, so i would not have to use my 3 in use HD's with media on them.
So does this community have any valuable input about what direction i should take?
What would give me the best experience, best data speeds, what's the safest option?
I hope this word salad makes some sense, thanks for reading and hopefully answering