Ah, thank you!

This seems like exactly what I need!

I am an actual sysadmin, at my last place of work I was the only Linux sysadmin, I still worked mainly in a 365 environment as a Helpdesk technician and a VIP technician.

At my current place of work I am a 365 admin.

I thought that since building a NAS is in the interest of other sysadmins, and when I posted my last thread it was fine that I should continue.

Especially since it seemed pretty dead since I posted the last time.

Some semi-related content seemed better than no content.

But if these questions are better served by another community, I will move there.

And yes, /r/sysadmin is the best forum for getting help in the sysadmin world that I have used.

Yeah, I have thought about getting a PCIE SATA controller card but have heard about mixed oppinions of those…

Yeah, I am a bit weary of hwraid since I have no experience with it, I have some experience with software raid.

My initial plan was going with Linux set up an mdadm raid and run an LVM on top of it, though the more I think about it, it feel like more of a lab/experiment scenario, snd I may get another NAS build to lab with.

As it stands now, I’ll probably go with TrueNAS and ZFS since it will be running in “prod” at home.

That’s fair, though it is keeping the community alive

As it is right now, I have zero redundancy, just my media spread across two HDDs, a future plan is to have two NAS units, the primary unit that I access from my machine as normal, and a separate unit that runs rsync or borgbackup from the primary unit every night.

At this moment I don’t want perfect being the enemy of good.

Interesting, can you send me the modelnumber as I can’t seem to navigate away from the german language in Ali Express?

Yeah, so far I am having a bit of trouble finding this, I am located in Sweden and the selection is limited.

I am looking at a minimum of 16 GB, memory is fairly cheap these days.

What about slow boot times of super micro, I have heard that they take a long time to boot through the bios.

Sounds like I need to get a another computer in addition to my NAS to do some testing with.

To be honest I am not 100% locked in on MDADM + LVM and EXT4, I am used to LVMs and have a decent understanding of them, and basically no understanding of ZFS.

From what I can see bit rot is not a huge problems for home users, I’ll add that to the plus side of using ZFS, and decide what I will do when I get the hardware.

This is my first NAS, and at the moment I am looking at the 6TB Seagate IronWolf Pro NT drives.

I have been using Seagate for as long as I built my own computers, I do remember the bad old days when I for months ran a computer with a Maxtor drive that kept headcrashing unless you slapped the machine as you pressed the power button, since then I have been on team Seagate.

I made a misstake in a previous comment where I mentioned that Synology was a US company, it is not, I’ll update my comment later.

My main issue with Synology is that at this point I want to run something I know is fully offline, I don’t want it reaching out to company servers, I just want a semi-dumb box I can throw my data in.

I am also concerned about Synology’s raid implementation, sure, it cool that you can add new drives as your need grows, but I worry about a raid being unevenly worn.

I mean, you have a Synology raid setup with three drives, you work off of it constantly, and after three years you add another drive and expand the storage but the old drives are still there, with three years of work on the m counting down to when they die, breaking the raid entierly…

Damn, looking back at what I wrote, it is clearly just my anxiety playing up…

I have been shillyshallying between running Synology or building my own machine, and right now am probably going for what I habe experience with.

Cloud backup sounds cool, but my current thinking is that my ideal system would have two NAS machines, the primary is the one I access in my day to day, and then I run a borg-backup or rsync between them every night to get all changes, over time I could get a few external drives and run my backups over sneakernet to my parents, low update frequency, sure, but would be a simple way to do it.

I do currently have an old Intel NAS that I have had for 10+ years, it was used and had used disks when I got it, as a cold backup.

I know about TrueNAS, but have never run it on dedicated hardware, at most I have run it in a Virtualbox to test it out.

Though to be fair I have never worked with MDAM either, but I did work with ext4 and xfs when I was a Linux admin, the ext4 filesystems I ran, was setup in an LVM, but to be fair, it was just VMs and I never had to consider the hypervisors raid as it was another team dealing with that.

ZFS is damned cool, but it is something I have limited experience with, at the moment I just want something I am familiar with to get something set up.

I will probably get a lab machine with in three years to so to learn more about how to deal with ZFS and TrueNAS over time before I feel comfortable running it myself.

Keepass.

Backed up in the cloud, with a long password with plenty of non english characters in the password.

For learning new passwords, I write them down on a note in my wallet, without any explanation of where they lead or what username to use.

I get what you mean, and if that works for you, then keep doing it, I just wanted to inform people of a feature that may have missed