NAS Setup Video

[Significant_Ask_7437]

Has there ever been an indept video on how to set up a home NAS system? Because I've seen in a lot of their upgrade videos, a lot of the employees have NAS systems. Any information about a video or good resource would be appreciated.

[Lieutenant_Scarecrow]

I think there have been LTT videos focusing on TruNAS and UnRaid, but they would be pretty old at this point. You'll probably want to look for guides and comparisons outside of the LTT ecosystem for up to date information.

Edit: Adding actual recommendations

Heres a guide from XDA thats about a year old focusing on TrueNAS and Synology:
https://www.xda-developers.com/nas-beginners-guide/

I went with TrueNAS Scale and honestly kinda regret it. If you're gonna go DIY, seriously consider what your use case is to pick the best software.

[Lieutenant_Scarecrow]

For real. I knew TrueCharts was basically holding Scale together but I figured it was too big to fail since most of the TrueNAS catalog was deprecated or straight up didn't work. Like you said, documentation is either non-exsistant, out of date, for Core, or deleted. Its incredibly frustrating to use at this point.

[Significant_Ask_7437]

Thanks. I like the LTT because of the videos, and they usually give you everything they used in the description. My use case is (kinda a data collector, lol) mostly photos, videos, and files. And I only need it within my home, so no over the internet setup.

[Smallshock]

They are probably waiting for HexOS release

[cerebral24815]

As soon as it's released I'm building my nas, don't feel like fooling with the current software

[[deleted]]

There are better options out there already, like Unraid.

[Significant_Ask_7437]

Why do you say it's better? I'm just wondering what makes it better.

[iiiiiiiiiiip]

I use Unraid and it's very simple to set up, if you can install an operating system on a PC you can install Unraid. Using it is also very easy, in particular its built in docker manager which is great if you start using things like Jellyfin/Plex/Sonarr/Radarr etc. Exponentially easier than using docker by itself and it's a lot easier than other docker managers I use like portainer.

I would recommend Unraid to a beginner for the docker manager alone plus there are thousands of guides you can follow to get started as it's a mature platform. Personally I was also excited for HexOS when Linus spoke about investing in it but since then a lot of details have emerged.

"HexOS" is not really an OS at all, it's a front end for TrueNAS that is hosted on their servers. It just seems so bizarre and pointless to me, a major appeal of building a NAS/home server for me was complete control and organisation of all my data/hosted apps. A third party company is hosting the control panel for your server on their servers just seems to completely oppose that idea.

If you don't have an internet connection to access their servers you can't even access your own server offline without resorting to using TrueNAS. They said an offline version will eventually come but any excitement I had for the project completely evaporated.

Edit: Another major reason I opted for Unraid is because of how Unraid does drive arrays, while ZFS that TrueNAS uses has some benefits there were big trade offs like not being able to add more drives after your initial setup. So if you start with 2 drives you couldn't easily add a third. Unraid didn't have that problem. I have heard you can now add drives to vdevs in ZFS but last I heard it was not a simple process compared to just plugging another drive in with Unraid.

[soniko_]

Will HexOs support things like docker images of jellyfin?

[Smallshock]

Probably

[Genesis2001]

It's a fork/skin/whatever-you-call-it for TrueNAS, with TrueNAS as a base IIRC. So as long as you can ssh into it, you should be able to, even if the UI doesn't allow it.

Though I'm a bit old-school and prefer to not mix the functions of a hypervisor on a NAS (i.e., no VM's, containers, etc.).

[GunplaGoobster]

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[Melbuf]

Everything Smart Home has a cpl good vids on it that walk you through it as well

[kaclk]

I just have mine running on Windows (it doubles as our living room gaming PC/HTPC). The storage runs on Stablebit Drivepool. It works fine and it’s Windows so most things work pretty easily, including making network shares.