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Simplify home hardware for selfhosting (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Right now I have a NAS running 24/7 for some self hosted apps (p2p, *arr...) and as primary storage for my multimedia files.

This NAS has some limitations because it has a low spec hardware and the OS is "propietary", so sometimes I have issues with docker or I miss some random feature that "standard" Linux distros have.

I work in IT and deal with the technology at home sometimes feels like a second job. I'm thinking that maybe I could simplify my home hardware avoiding NAS servers and use only my main desktop running 24/7 . This could give me a lot of flexibility (a standard OS, VMs, standard docker, better hardware, faster file operations because no LAN involved...) and less hardware to deal with.

Does anybody went this way? Any recommendations in favor or against it?

Sorry for my english.

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[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is what I've been trying to figure out, so I'm glad you did it. I have a Synology too and I've outgrown it, but building my own server scratch is daunting so I just wanted to hook a DAS up to a mini PC and call it good. But there were a lot of people online saying it was a bad idea.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There are lots of people online who think they are smarter than they are haha

Doing it this way is super simple and comes with many benefits and pretty much zero drawbacks. Another huge benefit is you can then sign up to backblaze personal computer backup plans which give you unlimited data backups for like $10 a month. I currently have my entire media library along with my entire Mac Mini hard drive (over 40TB in total) backed up in backblaze. To do that with a NAS would cost me thousands of dollars a year.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There are ways to back up a NAS with the Backblaze personal plans.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 1 hour ago

Sure, but none as easy as doing it the right way - and none that are guaranteed to not get your backblaze account banned.