02-25-2023, 01:39 AM
Quote:Now if only I can squeeze another hour or two out of my day for management...
Man if that doesn't just resonate with me to the fullest. The NAS is just one part of my home network. I have the Plex server, my DNS server and the router. The router is always fun since I'm running multiple networks and each one goes through a different VPN. Depending on the device, you could be going through New York, New Jersey or Montreal. Keeping on top of all those configurations can be a bear. And I rooted my wireless router and have OpenWRT installed on that. Keeping that maintained can be some work too - although, I've relaxed the hardening of its access a while back because fuck Apple and not exposing or offering a way to determine the MAC address on a device. I would have to set up a hotspot on my rig and log the connection to get the MAC address. Also because I've been playing a lot with wireless Raspberry Pi devices (and their clones) as well as some ESP32 controllers and not having to create an entry for each one in the router is a time saver.
I've also started fooling around with home automation - although, none of the software I've been test driving plays nicely within a VM. And I also am not a fan of Docker. What an absolute pain in the ass it is trying to manage those. Half the time I can't even get into the device because I don't know what internal IP the damn thing is using.
But if you're going to build a NAS, really go with a RAID system and if you can handle it, use RAID 5. With the new hardware, I ditched the separate hardware RAID controller and opted to go with software RAID. I don't recall if the motherboard is handling that or the NAS OS. Either way, I think the newer system is probably faster than my old RAID controller - plus I think the controller didn't do RAID 5, but instead RAID 3.