Do you want to build one yourself or are you mainly interested in off-the-shelf solutions? What's your budget? Do you run your services as containers? Do you need hardware acceleration for streaming with Jellyfin/Plex?
I would like to already have some redundancy, can I use the hard drives as they are or will I have to do something to them besides adding other hard drives?
Why do you want redundancy? To keep your data available or to keep your data safe?
added this info in the post, is really usefull and i don't think about it. Thanks!!!
Synology Diskstation DS1522+ $699.00
Synology Diskstation DS1621+ $899.99
Some of those apps are available through the community package center. If not then you can run a docker environment or a virtual machine on the DS and run whatever you want. It’s got a lot more horsepower than a single board computer, but I still recommend separation of duties and let the NAS be a NAS. Put your services on a server or separate virtual environment.
This is my DS16xx+ and expansion bay
I'd second this, if only because it's super easy to run things on and OP explicitly said they don't want to tinker with it. There is a limited list, imo, of buy and forget.
That's said, I personally think a cheap little 4th gen or higher Intel based tiny/mini/micro would do a way better job on the services side, and just store on the NAS.
I bought a QNAP TL-D800S disk shelf (it does have 8 slots and not 5) and an old used Fujitsu Esprimo on eBay. That means I can replace the PC with something more powerful in the future if I need to without having to worry about the disks. Works great so far with the 5 disks I have in it and the two stack on top of each other perfectly.
i don't know this was an option, so, if i buy this disk shelf, and still using my sbc that gives me enough power for my services, and add this has "a hard drive"?
I have to get more info about this option, thanks!!
If you can connect it to the SBC, yeah. This one comes with a PCIe card and you connect it with SAS cables (it unfortunately only does SATA for the drives though). The disks show up as separate independent devices and you can just combine them with mdraid or whatever.
There's also a USB C variant of it but that seemed more sketchy to me.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
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