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I have some questions about selfhosting (kbin.earth)
submitted 1 month ago by AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello, i want to get into the self hosting game and have some questions about it. I hope that this community may help me (i already learnt so much by reading posts in this community).

  1. I want to self host an NAS and some home server applications like Immich, Homeassistant, Jellyfin and parts of the *Arr stack. Would it be advisable to get a mini-PC and a separate NAS or can i put this on the same appliance together? Was thinking about getting a NAS from Terramaster and i am not sure if i need a separate mini PC.
  2. If i would go with the all in one solution, would TrueNAS Scale be enough? I saw some recommendations to get Promox and run TrueNAS Scale for the NAS management and Promox container for everything else.
  3. If i would go with the separate solutions how would i handle seeding? Since the mini-PC would run the *Arr Suite with qBittorrent would it be able to download directly to the NAS and hardlink the stuff there or would seeding require two copies, one on the mini-pc and another one on the NAS?

I hope my problems are clear, i tried searching for it but did not find a satisfying answer, which is why i am asking here. Thanks in advance

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I virtualized my nas for memes but honestly you don't even need to do that. Just run proxmox and use zfs then build whatever lxc/VMS you want on top of it

[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that viable? I read that doing it with proxmox can be problematic because it doesn't offer such great NAS and Raid options out of the box, making it harder to maintain.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ZFS is objectively the best disk pool solution, where did you read that?

[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read some more about it and yeah ZFS seems like a great solution. Do you happen to know how easy it is to upgrade storage with ZFS? E.g. i start with just 2x4TB but later I add another 2x4TB, would that be easy or would this result in a total rebuild?

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

You usually need to trigger a total rebuild to make it part of the same pool, but you could always make it separate vdevs.

The best route would be to start with the number of drives you want at least, and upgrade them via replacement as you go.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

i already learnt so much by reading posts in this community

That's the best way to learn. Embed yourself in a community and passively learn. When you have enough of the vocabulary to ask an intelligent question, ask and let the community present solutions. Good job.

  1. Others may disagree, but I think a sufficiently powerful NAS can absolutely handle automation backends and media servers. I know many people run such tools on Synology devices without issue (Synology, however, have become greedy assholes wrt requiring their own drives for compatibility) including me. I haven't used Immich, but I see no reason that couldn't run there as well. A dedicated mini-PC is overkill, but it would make things snappier if you're flush with cash. I'm currently running an M2 Mac mini for my server needs and torrents because I can afford it and it can support 2000+ torrents at the same time without breaking a sweat.

  2. I haven't used TrueNAS and I'm unqualified to comment on this. I have run Proxmox, but not as a container. I'll let others comment.

  3. I haven't used the Arr Suite. I just searched and I can't imagine any reason why you couldn't run the torrent client on a dedicated device and store data on the NAS. You don’t need to duplicate the files to do so. You might have to create automation of sorts to mount the NAS volume on the mini-PC at login or restore it if it gets interrupted, or you could just do so manually.

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