n00b question, sorry. If I had a desktop that could hold 4 HD and 2 SSD, could I turn it into a NAS? Could someone point me in the right direction if this makes sense?

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    2 年前

    You totally can, but since it will be on all day with 4 hdd look into wattages you want to live with. There are some small NUCs or Pi based NAS with low wattages. There is OpenMediaVault, FreeNAS/TrueNAS software to install

    • comfydecal@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      Hey sorry, thinking on this more, could I just turn on the NAS when desired? What is the benefit of running it constantly?

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        10·
        2 年前

        Yep, look into Wake On LAN if you just want to power the NAS on remotely.

        My NAS also powers on at certaIn times of day and off again after a while - IF - no-one’s connected / no network traffic / etc.

        I do NOT need my NAS on at 3am…

        Edit : forgot to say, check out OpenMediaVault

        • rentar42@kbin.social
          6·
          2 年前

          Note that there is some reliability drawback of spinning hard disks on and off repeatedly. maybe unintuitively HDDs that spin constantly can live much longer than those that spend 90% of their time spun down.

          This might not be relevant if you use only SSDs, and might never affect you, but it should be mentioned.

          • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
            4·
            2 年前

            You can also configure the HDDs to power down when they’re not in use. HDDs are the biggest power consumer anyway.

      • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 年前

        You could totally turn on as needed, WakeOnLan is good for that. But typically when people run a NAS it is for streaming audio, video, file sync and backups and maybe docker running other services so the NAS is typically on 24/7 so it is available on demand. But it doean’t have to be 100% uptime if you don’t want it to be. For example I have two OpenMediaVaults one on a pi and one an old IomegaNAS. The pi is on always with an attached drive, and serves Samba Shares and DLNA/DAAP shares. Has docker running syncthing, CUPS print server, Trillium Notes, and homeassistant; so makes sense for it to be on all day, especially because my wife’s system backsup to it daily automatically. The converted Iomega NAS is mainly a backup machine sInce it is old and not as performant (only has 100 network speed. So that gets turned on to do a bulk backup and not much else.