Hi,

I am not sure if this is the right place, but I will give it a try.

My 10years old NAS quited working and I am looking for my opportunities. And since I am tinkering with my raspi and am generally interested in selfhosting stuff like jellyfin, joplin e.g. I decided to take the step to build my own Nas instead of buying another Synology device.

I would like to provide my needs but since I am not sure about it, it serms a bit difficult.

What I know:

  • 4 sata slots so I can use my actual drives and have the option to upgrade
  • Transcoding with jellyfin would be nice
  • having my own cloud storage is a long term aim
  • joplin server
  • maybe some terraria dedicated server could be cool also
  • low power usage and low noise are two criteria i would consider important since the energy prices only know one direction where I life

At the moment my favorite is this fanless board: https://www.minipc.de/catalog/il/2942

I would upgrade it with a pci card to get more sata slots or with a m.2 card which would do the same thing.

ECC compatibility feels unnecessary.

Is there anything that I forgott? Any better choices from european vendors? Ordering from america is not an option because it would take forever to arrive and the process to get it from the zoll is time consuming and would put taxes on top.

Thanks in advance 😊

Edit: I just realised that M.2 M key SSDs are not supported by the slot… This reduces the options to chose from

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•1 year ago

    No, atm only a few users (maybe 4-5 at once) should connect at the same time. The 2,5Gb lan is only a nice to have because the board comes with it.

    • Lengsel
      -1•1 year ago

      I have only seen 2.5Gb on ATX boards, is it available on SoC? Does a Pine64 board work for you?

      • @[email protected]OP
        2•1 year ago

        I guess i missunderstood. The board I linked got 2xGb-Lan not 2,5gb lan. Sorry.

        It seems like the pine64 is based on android right? I planned to use “debian server” or “trueNas scale”. Don’t know if this is compatible. But since the raspi always needed its own version of every software because of its cpu architecture (ARM) I wanted to switch to the more common X64 platform. So I can use the usual software version for for example docker.

        • Lengsel
          -1•1 year ago

          Pine64 is an open hardware ARM chip. It can BSD, Linux, maybe Windows On ARM, I see no point in using it for Android, but you can run the Arm version of any BSD or Linux.

          There is no Pine version like Pi, anything that works on ARM will run natively on Pine64.