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Advice needed for setting up my first NAS (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've recently gotten into homelabs I've got a Mini-PC running Immich and Home-Assistant

I'd like to setup a NAS for the Immich server to save media to.

I'm very new to the game and only recently started looking into this.

One requirement for me is it must be Open-Source. TrueNAS?

What hardware would you recommend? Having 2TB for now with the ability to expand it would be great, a small size would also be ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm currently running two 4tb HDDs in a DAS attached to a Lenovo Thinkcentre tiny. It's more than enough for my usecase. (I don't run Immich, but do run PhotoPrism, which is similar in terms of resource usage.) The DAS is attached to the Thinkcentre by USB 3.0 (you can do eSATA but I'm currently happy with this setup.) The HDDs are in a mirrored VDEV which is part of a ZFS pool. It's running in on AlmaLinux with zfsonlinux.