I’m looking for suggestions. I have a rack in my office with up to 4U space available. I’m looking to set up a backup and storage solution to try and break free from services such as dropbox & google drive. I’d also love to run a few other things like homeassistant and potentially even Klipper for my 3d printer. I’d also like it to be reasonably quiet if possible.

So what would you recommend? I could get something like a dell poweredge and add HDDs + replace the fans with noctua to keep the noise down or go with a dedicated NAS like synology. Any other recommendations?

  • Nabs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So I am a total amateur, but i set up a TrueNas server that hosts my Plex server, then set up a linux VM to host a PiHole.

    I also set up nextcloud vm on that machine too, i wanted to autobackup my phone pics and have a sync’d, shareable calendar with the family.

    Nextcloud was the biggest pain in my ass and i never truely got it working as advertised. I ended up scrapping that part just because of how god-awful nextcloud was, and god forbid you try and update it to the most recent version.

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      1 year ago

      I did the same as you, but wanted native performance on my Linux machine, so what was awesome was I was able to export my zfs pool from truenas and spool up a Linux distro and import it. There’s a project called cockpit and it has a zfs plugin which makes it easy to manage like truenas, but you can also use it as a whole ass pc at the same time

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      1 year ago

      I agree that Nextcloud is a pain in the ass most of the time but FWIW the official AIO + reverse proxy method has served me well. I run it in a proxmox LXC container so it’s pretty tidy, upgrades tend to work well and it doesn’t force its own reverse proxy/certificate management on me.