I’m a bit stuck at the moment and hoping I can get some guidance. Right now I store my media and other files on a few external drives connected to one of my Proxmox nodes, and passed through to an OMV VM. I backup everything important off-site.
I’d like to separate my storage from my Proxmox nodes into a dedicated NAS and dip my toes into ZFS and also Proxmox high availability. I also want to roll open source software (probably TrueNAS) on the NAS, but I do not want to build an entire PC. The off-the-sheld Synologys and the like seem like overpriced hardware especially if I’d prefer an alternative software.
I am considering getting one of the used business PCs or other mini-pc and connecting a USB-C DAS up to it and installing TrueNAS on the mini-pc.
Is this a viable approach? Am I setting myself up for a system that I’ll want to upgrade in a couple years?
Here is an article that describes a similar approach: https://www.androidauthority.com/cheap-diy-nas-server-3348392/
Do you mean something like this? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805947799076.html
With that motherboard, I think I’m only looking at a case, psu, memory, storage, and sata cables. Is that right?
Yeah exactly. It would be a whole PC build, which I know you mentioned not wanting to do, it can be its own project selecting parts and putting it together. Can chuck it in a Node 304, or Jonsbo N1.
Wolfgang has a youtube video of putting a build together around it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDoQA4C22c
Wow thanks so much, you’ve pushed me to build my own! Some deals coming up on Black Friday so I’ll be ordering everything then. Thank you!!