Nearly half a dozen NAS videos on KZfaq, but everyone including yours skips the most important part of setting it up so it's accessible from outside of the home network, would you mind covering that as well? Thanks.

@@bigdamnhero2297 I wouldn't necessarily say it's the most important part, as there are many reasons why you maybe WOULDN'T want that, but I totally understand why you would! There are many different ways of doing it. I personally prefer using a VPN server like wireguard so that I can tunnel into my local network and access it vs doing some port forwarding or something. I'd like to get a wireguard video made, but in the meantime maybe look into that. Techno Tim has a solid video on it if I remember correctly

@@bigdamnhero2297 That's not the most important part, but more the more dangerous part that no one should do because 99% of you out there don't know how to configure networking, setup security rules properly or don't really know what they are doing.

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Problems i had following this Tutorial, and how i solved them: While trying to boot from USB, Selected boot image could not be Authenticated - Turned off SecureBoot GRUB Error Unknown Filesystem - Used Balena Etcher instead of Rufus Web interface could not be accessed - Used archive and installed an Older version of TrueNAS Install failed - Tried again i was nanometers away before throwing everything in the trash filled with rage, but somehow through clever googling it worked. Linux always Frustrates me.

Nice! I’m definitely going to keep an eye out

That ECC RAM, dirt cheap compared to the desktop stuff.

Hey can I message you to get more info on this? I'm trying to build a dort cheap NAS and I'm a bit lost

Love to see video on this especially an occasional dual windows boot.

Welcome aboard haha

Obrigado!

Glad you enjoy it, and thanks for the comment!

The drives themselves pull probably close to 20w... Assuming he is not setting them to spin down when idle, which he doesn't mention doing.

Thanks!

Thanks!

While I admire the initiative to save power, I really don't see the point of removing a laptops keyboard, touchpad, or screen. A keyboard and touchpad use no power to speak of, and the screen can turn itself off also. And having those three things can make troubleshooting easier when necessary.

@@sidorgeorge ig better cooling and u can plug in the monitor back whenever u want to

@@JailerGamer i run a laptop server with the lid closed and removing all that would not do much, its easy to add additional fans which i highly recommend as well as heat sinks to components that get hot found some real hot inductors and the chipset... Removing all that will definitely be a pain when something happens to it and yeah the consume no power so pointless to remove them

That’s probably a good point. I’ve heard similar things recently. I’ll have a correction in the description. Thanks!

I agree and disagree. You should never run it degraded except for replacing disks. Most arrays are run on basically identical drives, and while yes, there is greater concurrence when using identical disks (critically true of SSD's) the general timeframe of failure will be similar. Which is why you don't wait until you have a failure to replace some disks. Make an estimate of how long disks will last, and then schedule replacements accordingly. So funny story on this, Synology created a proprietary array type called F1 specifically to "address" this issue on SSDs, which due to the way they work, have a higher liklihood of failing at around the same time. It works by basically writing more to one disk at a time, therefore aging them out ununiformly. The only way it can know which is the oldest disk to age out is via the disks smart stats. So we can write that another way: "Synology F1 intentionally damages disks, to get them to fail" it's an idiotic scheme, because using that same smart data you could just instruct the user to replace disks *without damaging it first*, without creating an actual real failure. The user would then have the option of re-purposing the disk for the remainder of it's lifespan in some low usage/non critical situation. SSD's make this need obvious, but it's always been true for spinning disks, and large environments will replace on a schedule, not wait for the whole array to be run into the ground.

Very good points! The F1 feature sounds like a quick and dirty solution and horrible for real life. "Running degraded" as i am strongly for depend on the system and setup and might not actually be degraded. A raid 6 is easy to run somewhat safe degraded with new disks. A raid 1 can be run for a while with one disk being a desktop computer disk used for a while and then swapped for the real disk etc. And of course there is a huge difference in doing this at home where money is an issue and downtime probably is not. Also doing this with 2-5 disks are much easier than 100. : ) This is also one reason I really like btrfs. With it I can start with 2 disks for a month, change one for a new, run for 2 months, and then re- add the replaces to continue on 3 disks. All without degradation nor downtime. And it is good for unmatched disks in terms of space usage. Maybe not an issue in the beginning, but when upgrading to newer drives or expanding.

Another reason you don't want to use exactly same model is that you don't know which one you replace when one of them dies. While synology has dedicated number tagged bays, this home built NAS doesn't have numbering on its drives.

@@INJOONKIM The SMART data should be more than enough to identify the fault

That's awesome!

May I ask where you work or at least what sort of work you do? What's your "workplace"?

he's never going to answer that

You’d be surprised what it might be capable of! Though power draw might be a little high haha

Awesome! Best of luck

Man I feel like even more of a home jobber, because this was too much. I followed his steps to set a static IP address and ended up bricking the NAS. One re-install later, and I think I'm just going to leave the default DHCP settings going forward. XD

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@HardwareHaven affirmative!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Haha that’s awesome. It’s an honor

Ah thanks 👍🏻

Thanks! Enjoy messing around with it, it's fun

Thanks!

LMAO beat me to it by 11 hours!

Still a new channel, but thank you!

Thanks for the comment. Best of luck with your own endeavor!

DANG. That's crazy! What do you primarily use it for?

@@HardwareHaven Right now it's been mainly storage, Plex, Resolve finished projects, a copy of my game libraries, various installers for my programs, .iso's of various linux builds, images/snapshots for my other computers/raspberry pi's, an archive of radeon and radeon pro drivers going back 2 years, and my dmg files for my old mac pro with copies of 10.6 - current MacOS. I do a lot of data recovery, and repairs for friends and family so having space to copy data to and install onto a fresh drive is also nice. still have more plans for it hence the upgrade in the future. but for now it's doing a bangin job.

I'm also one of the types who likes to run a clean boot drive with just the OS on it so being able to store copies of everything really helps when I do a quarterly clean windows or linux install. I've been big on data redundancy since college when I lost close to a TB of music and a couple TB of movies and tv shows along with nearly all my senior projects a week before finals due to a power outage killing my iMac

@@catalystguitarguy oof. Yeah I honestly need to be better with backups and redundancy. Horror stories like that should bring more fear to people, including myself haha. That’s an awesome setup you have! I’m always down to hear any other cool things you do with it in the future.

@@HardwareHaven It’s fun experimenting and relieving to have backups. I’m using an old full tower CFI case I picked up from FB marketplace for $35 for it currently. It’s a CFI-A7007. It has 6 x 3.5” bays, 3 x 2.5” mounts, 4 x 5 1/4” bays, and 8 x 120mm fan mounts. I converted the 5 1/4” bays to a Quad 3.5” hot swap enclosure with 3 slots. And the remaining slot I put a quad 2.5” drive hot swap enclosure. The thing is a bit bulky but for drive capacity and cooling it’s hard to match. Short of one of those expensive fractal designs behemoths. I don’t think I’ve seen temps over 40C under heavier loads and sustained transfers.

Thanks! Hopefully more to come in the future

I’d like to do something with nextcloud. From what I understand, it’s basically like Dropbox or Google drive, but self hosted. Could be really cool to try!

@@HardwareHaven It would be a nice video. I tried Nextcloud on my old Lenovo laptop with AMD A10 and 256GB SSD just to see if it works. But I used a Ubuntu server, the setup was a little bit harder because It was my first encounter with CLI system only, but It worked fine, I did even setup a free domain and had acces to it over the internet. It can do also chat and video calls.

Glad you liked it

Thanks!

Thanks!

Oh nice! Definitely have another backup though especially if it’s data you rely on for work haha

@@HardwareHaven I was in Puerto Rico for 1 week before taking a cruise. Using a AirBNB 5Mb internet I connected to my home server through my OpenVPN to upload a few GB of pics/video...in case something happened to my cam/laptop while on the cruise I didn't lose ALL my trip data. Very convenient. Have remote access to about 1.5TB of data from anywhere. We just need faster internet options. Primarily upload

Haha I’m glad to hear that

Completely agree! I won't be getting rid of my Synology anytime soon. The surveillance station alone is probably worth it.

@@HardwareHaven Look into DSM7 redpill loader with Xpenology. Well worth building one that's for sure

@@bankruptsee Will do, thanks Mitch!

Ready built NAS are amazing for the hardware they use. The advantage of building your own is you can chuck better hardware at it for less money. I was amazed how well this one performed because you can't get much weaker hardware than this without going vintage.

That’s awesome! Definitely not efficient haha, but hopefully it works well for ya

Those can work well for video rendering and other tasks that can leverage multiple cores.

XIGMA NAS AND OMV ARE VIABLE OPTIONS TOO... XIGMA NAS is a fork of freenas and was previously called nas4free. It has served me well for years. Omv runs on lighter hardware including ras pi's, also quite stable.

It will be hot baby) I also once had an 8350.

@@VladislavKurashov Yea, I forget the model but it has a big tower cooler. The mobo is a fatal1ty with all kinds of OC stuff in the bios. I was thinking of an underclock/volt. At least it isn't 9000 series I guess, haha

Ive been running truenas off a usb stick for over a year now and no problems with speed and reliability so far.

Super interesting! Great idea. Pinned

Truenas isnt recommended to run off of usb drives. You may not encounter a problem but it still doesnt make it a good decision. In this vid from level1techs they encountered problems with it and truenas clarified theyd update the documentation to not recommend usb install anymore. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7p-eMin2LjPj3k.html

@@JFat5158 after looking back it it, it looks like they specifically recommend against using usb drives for data vdevs. I’m not sure if that includes the boot drive as well. If I had the ability not to use USB, I would 100% do that. But if you’re limited to it, it makes more sense to me to just use the boot drive over usb. Just a guess and opinion though 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@JFat5158 and to clarify, I can’t watch the video you sent currently, so I could be missing something in there. I’ll try to watch it later

Enjoy it 👍🏻

Interesting. Do you mean the little rubber washer type things? I think I've seen some people claim that those can actually make vibrations potentially worse. Not for noise, but for the drive itself.

@@HardwareHaven -- yup, they look like little rubber washers. Some NAS-rated drives will already have those built into the internals of the case, and you won't see them. They're probably less important for a device that has only two drives, but for devices with a larger number of drives, I think you're going to want them. I believe that the early models of the Backblaze server rigs did not have them, while the newer models of their rig does. Yes, Backblaze publishes full video and design specs for the NAS devices that they build for themselves. It's almost as cool as their list of drive reliability that they post every quarter.