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I have been wanting to have a Home NAS for a while, particularly to to do the follow: Run a LocalAI that i can hopefully also access remotely, instead of using DuckAI, ChatGPT through Siri, ect. Store my movie collection and access it through devices through Plex (i think?) Have a replacement for ProtonDrive so i am not dependant on paying a company to store my files and hopefully be able to access it also off-network through my phone, laptop, or whatever remotely as well as in-house. I am finally in a position to begin aquiring the hardware and stuff i need and as such i am hoping for some feedback, warnings about potential pitfulls my googling and youtubin may have failed me on, and any advice about how to make sure the above-mentioned stuff will work before i fully commit in-case i need to change tracks somehow. okay, first off is the PC i will be using, i was planning on getting an old optiplex or something like that and stuffing it with drives. HOWEVER, today i stumbled upon this brand-new in box (unopened too!) at a pawn store and i offered $250 out the door and they took it. so i am ecstatic that this will work. https://www.newegg.com/p/3D5-0005-00EA3 it is not listed but it does come with an RX 5500 as well as its integrated GPU, a quick bit of googling showed this should be more than enough for processing videos even if it dosen't have that HAVI.. (AVI?) codec support that recently started taking over. And while i can use the included 250gb nvme drive as a boot drive it only has 3 SATA ports so that will limit my options. Unfortunately I found that i can not get a 4 pin to 3 sata power connector, only a 4 pin to 2 sata power connector like the one that comes with the PC which is why i will need to replace the PSU; and while i can use the included 250gb nvme drive as a boot drive it only has 3 SATA ports so that will limit my options. I am planning to order these 3 X 6TB WD Blue (amazon.com/gp/product/B0BNGL4BND) 1 x Rosewill VMG 750W Modular (amazon.com/gp/product/B0FFQC5VGM) the reason for the WD Blue's instead of Red's is because of price, I saw people commenting they used Blue's before for NAS storage solutions and while they might not hold up as long as enterprise or nas-intended drives they should last a long while still while also being more affordable... or as affordable as it can be when each 6TB drive costs $205 😭. And if im reading/looking correctly this PSU should work, even if i cant physically fit it inside i can just sticky it to the top of the PC and route the cables inside, the included cables should work for the two 4 pin power plugs that this motherboard uses. I do need to upgrade to either 16 or 32 GB of ram, but i haven't figured out if 16 would be enough for my use case and which kit would be best. anyone who can chime in would be massively appreciated. if this is a bit rambly and i forgot stuff im sorry, i worked an 10+ hour shift and am very tired lol.

Hey all I am working on doing a build for hexos. I have never done a NAS build before and I'm not sure what would be a good case I want no rgb and small form factor if possible. I was going to do something with integrated graphics if that helps with Plex transcoding. I am thinking 2 8tb HHD and 1 m.2 1tb boot drive (idk how important the size of the boot drive is) Any help would be great 😊 All in I'm hoping for a price around $1000

I checked the minimum requirements, is there a recommended spec? Plan on using this for photo & video backup from family phones. Might look at Plex in the future. I want to build something that can be expandable storage-wise if needed. Have access to lots of 4TB HDDs so plan on 4x 4TBs in the system just not sure what sort of CPU and motherboard to go for. Any suggestions are welcome 🙂

Hi everyone! I'm excited to join the Beta program with HexOS and build my first NAS which I plan to use for basic file storage and maybe computer backups down the road. Currently I have 12TB of storage hosted as a network drive on a always on micro PC and my goal is to replace that with this setup. To do that I'm planning on using: Dell OptiPlex 3050 SFF Intel Core i5-7500 | 8GB DDR4 RAM M.2 128GB drive for OS SATA 1 : SEAGATE TERASCALE HDD 4TB ST4000NC001 5900 RPM 64MB 3.5" SATA 6GB/S SATA 2: Identical 4TB drive as above PCIE SATA Expansion card: 10 Port PCIE Expansion Card PCIe SATA 3.0 Controller Adapter 6Gbps for Desktop In that Expansion card, 3 more of the same 4TB drives I know they are slower drives, I'm not super concerned with the performance, so that's fine with me. My biggest concern is power. There are no other power leads coming out of the power supply. I'm guessing I can't just get a SATA power splitter cable to power the 5 drives off the power supply technically made for SATA 1? Is there anything else about this setup I should be concerned about? With 5 4TB drives would my storage then be 16TB? (Max - 1 drive) with 1 drive failure without data loss? Thanks everyone!

My wife and I live in the big city, and my folks (+2 of my siblings) live about 400 miles away. We all need a backup solution, so I'm building a pair of servers that will work as a team to give my whole family a solid data integrity plan, plus possibly some media and game server hosting and such. Overview: One server at each location. Servers will accept backups, files, etc from users devices Each local server will send copies of the local users' backups to the server in the alternate location. Each server may also be able to act as a media server as well, resources depending The Hardware: "Rincewind" - My local server Random-butt rack case from back when George W. Was in office. SilverStone 3x 5.25" ODD to 5x 3.5" HDD cage (SST-FS305-12G) 120 GB Kingston boot SSD 5x random 2TB HDDs (These need replaced before full deployment. Need at least 24TB usable to match the other server) Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X9scm-f LGA1155 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1240 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz un-buffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) "TheLibrarian" - Remote server at the parent's house. Used Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 (iirc) 8x random 4TB HDDs that came with the case Crucial boot SSD Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X10SSL-F LGA1150 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1246 v3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz unbuffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) Status and Next Steps: Add SSDs for cache once feature is available Upgrade both servers to 23GB of ram Continue to test HexOS config before dployment Wait for Buddy Backup feature to be available for testing. Continue playing with plex, immich, etc. Find a dead nuts simple incremental backup solution for Windows Deploy Servers and set up local machine backups If anyone has any suggestions for windows backup software I would love to hear them! Attached photos show my current tech cave/homelab setup