Love the ghetto build! I would go with unraid only just because you use different capacity drives. Yes i know it's paid software, but if it works on this config it's gonna make your life easier.
Thanks for the tip! We shall embrace the jank! I'm going to migrate the data from the spanned NTFS volumes onto one large drive and take it from there. Part 2 will be up next weekend.
Oh my, this is great. I would probably run TrueNAS Scale or if you really want the themed journey, a bare metal Debian server image with mdadm and Samba.
Are you going to set up RAID on your NAS? TrueNAS requires arrays to be built from the same size drives. Unraid requires you use the largest drive in a set as the parity drive. Couple of limitation you might have to work around. If you can live without RAID, then any OS should allow you to set up a JBOD. If you go JBOD, have a good backup strategy, just in case... :) To be fair, even with a RAID setup, you still need backup. But, with JBOD...you are really walking a tightrope without a net.
Thanks for the advice, Yeah it will likely be Raid 4 if I can find 1 more 4TB HDD. The drives featured in the video are going to scrap. They all failed a basic surface test to various degrees. This was somewhat expected since they were recently hauled half way across the country in a trailer.
@@50shadesofbeige88 I really like TrueNAS. With just 3 (or more) 4TB drives, you can put together a nice little "shelf" of drives. TrueNAS also supports VMs, Containers, and probably things I don't even realize it has... :) You can also use your smaller SATA drives as cache drives. When I look at what you are doing, it kind of screams to me: Dremel the bottom away from the case, secure in a wood crate/cabinet/box, and build you NAS as an art/retro/rustic system.
I understand that 3-5 years is a good general rule of thumb, I'm just saying that regardless of age, I've had experiences with Dell machines and bone dry thermal paste. There's no hard fast rule that says the paste must be replaced at a particular age. If it isn't broken don't fix it.
