Hey there selfhosted community.

Does anyone here have experience with silent or mostly silent storage solutions? I would like to implement a NAS solution for my homelab and home.

I tried a fully fledged consumer NAS (QNAP with Seagate 12 TB NAS drives) but the noise of the platters was not acceptable. Currently I have a external WD drive attached via USB to my mini PC/server but I would really love to implement some kind of redundancy in the form of a NAS from where the critical files would be backed up to Hetzner for offsite and on external drives.

I don’t need a ton of space. My most critical items are photos. As silent operation is very important I started looking into ssd NAS solutions. Does anyone have experience with Beelink ME mini? Other solutions I looked into where either overkill or horrendously expensive.

I would really like to pull the trigger on a solution here before the prices for storage will skyrocket in the future.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’d DIY it (maybe with FreeNAS, about which I know nothing) instead of buying a proprietary NAS in a box. What’s the point of self-hosting if you’re going to be at the mercy of someone else’s software anyway? If you’re DIY’ing, there are 3.5" drive enclosures with soundproofing stuff in them that should keep the drive pretty quiet. Or if you can afford enough SSD’s for your storage requirements, then use those.

    • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I dunno about recommending FreeNAS (Known as truenas now). It is basically an appliance OS, and unless you are using enterprise level hardware, they want nothing to do with you.

      I’m currently using it, but it was a very unpleasant experience setting it up.

      • mpramann@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 month ago

        What was unpleasant for you? TrueNAS just works for me and was no hassle at all to setup on my DIY N100 NAS.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the frontend and the console, but their middleware just hated them.

          I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.

          I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Set it up on my uGreen DXP4800+
        The most unpleasant thing was to configure the LED health indicator and learning how it works.