I second this proposition of DIY build. My current build is an older version of this using an ASRock motherboard with integrated Intel j5040. It’s already very capable! I run Jellyfin with HW transcoding and a dozen other containers and there is still plenty of headroom.
The Jonsbo N2 case is pricey but good quality, nice looking and nice to build with ! Cheaper options are there but not as nice in terms of looks and usability.
You can look into this database: PSU Low Idle Efficiency Database by Wolfgang’s Channel / Google Docs
Caddy is the only reverse proxy I have ever managed to successfully make use of. I failed miserably with Nginix and Traefik.
Caddy has worked very well for me for several years now. It gets the SSL certificate from my domain name provider and all.
You mean that making phones that are heavy, slippery, breakable glass all around isn’t the greatest design choice and that we have invented more durables, lightweight, shock resistant materials we use to make phones with but we have stopped doing that just for profit? Hum… 🤔
Take the time to properly understand Linux file ownership and permission. Permission will be the cause of many issues you will encounter in you self-hosting journey on Linux. Make sure you know the basics of chmod (change permission) and chown (change ownership), Linux users and groups. This will save you some head-scratching, but don’t worry, you will learn by doing !
Remember that, if you setup everything right, especially with docker, running as root / with sudo is not required for any of the services you may want to run.
No. I initially thought of publishing the files. But there are some issues with the design I didn’t fix and the whole thing is built around the NanoPi M4V2, which I don’t think you can buy anymore.
The seller mentions the drives are fully tested, but does not offer a warranty, aside from the Ebay 30-day return policy.
I left a comment to the Ebay seller and asked the same question, but I did not get a reply.
Ah yes ! I just fixed that. Thanks.
What do you use for the bit-by-bit test and how long does it take (depending on disk size) ? I have read about badblocks and that it could take an entire week to test one drive of 12TB, I didn’t have the patient to do that. The long SMART test already took nearly 20 hours in my case.
Thank you
Thank you ! It was a cool design project, but I ended up no publishing the design as it is quite difficult to assemble and work with. here are a couple more photos:
The black box with white front and blue LED lights, yes. I designed and built it myself. The case is made of laser-cuted plexiglass and 3D printed parts. The front plate is PLA, internals are PETG. It’s build around an ARM Single-Board Computer: NanoPi M4V2 with a SATA extension hat.
In a previous post, some were recommending me to use helium-sealed drives for lower noise. The disks I’ve bought are helium-sealed, but they are definitely a little louder at 7200rpm than 5400rpm drives. It’s still acceptable.
I love jellyfin, it’s great ! I haven’t played with Plex much to be honest, so I can’t really compare
My media collection is not backed-up, expect for the spare disks I have now. My photos and documents are encrypted weekly and sent to pCloud. They are also synchronized to my computer and phone with Syncthing. This way the important files are protected by 3-2-1.
why not btrfs send | btrfs receive? is there some advantage to rsync?
I didn’t think of this. I am familiar with rsync, I went with it without searching for alternatives.
did you hotswap the drives after each btrfs replace or shutdown and then swap?
I did the swap with the system powered down. I don’t know if my the NanoPi + SATA hat support hotswap.
what’s your host OS and do the drives spin down if inactive?
The NAS runs Armbian. The disks are configured to spin down, yes. I don’t know if this caused me the issue while replacing disk 2. I suppose not, since during replace the disks are all reading continuously. But I don’t know for sure.
Edit: fixed copy-past mistake with quoted sentences
I guess I got lucky with this batch, they all seem to work perfectly. But only time will tell if this what truly a good deal.
The client for Android TV works very nicely. Maybe there is a way to use the same UI on consoles?
openmediavault and casas are good noob-friendly OSes for NAS purpose. Much faster and simpler to get it running than some Proxmox and True NAS overkill solution.
You can also just install whatever Linux OS you like, and plug-in some screen, keyboard and mouse and do your setup this way, like any other computer!
For Hardware, I recommend to build a computer out of standard parts. For what you said, a small motherboard with an integrated Intel N100 CPU and a nice looking case like the Jonsbo N2 will sever you well. This is very close to my current setup, using an older j5040 CPU and it runs everything just fine with no effort (Jellyfin w/ light transcoding, *arr stack, Usenet and torrent clients, syncthing, SMB and NFS filesharing, and more)