Building your own NAS/homelab machine is neverending process.
I started with a plain external drive ~15 years ago, then connected it via USB to PC Engines Alix, then moved to two-bay Synology NAS, then built my first small and passive mini-ITX machine (sporting Athlon 200GE) with 4 drives and yesterday, I rebuilt it with Ryzen 5600G, 3x12TB drives in RAID5, 1TB NVMe in PCI-E for VMs, 512GB NVMe for system and containers, 64 GB RAM...
Everything encrypted, services running in podman containers, a few VMs will come... it will be a long configuration weekend, learning new stuff again 😻
Can't believe I used to run services directly as root and even used samba and other messy stuff.
BTW, #cockpit in Fedora Server rocks! I tried to use it ~2 years ago and it was not a pleasant experience, but now, I did most of the stuff there instead of command line.
Also am interested in #stratis - not for this server, but for another one. Looks like a nice umbrella storage system for my 10+ spare HDDs and SSDs with different sizes which I want to use to spin-up a pure backup server one day, if I find a reasonable motherboard for it with enough SATA ports... (see https://stratis-storage.github.io/ for details - thanks @shine for mentioning it to me)
#FedoraServer #NAS #homelab
@kayla
Great! Do you have a write-up or notes on your experiences? Could be valuable, especially since I too have an AMD mini-ITX around unused (Kabini APU). I want/need to build a "NAS+" (personal media replication, security footage recording, bookmarking, chat, maybe a blog served from the home? #SelfHost #EMail fantasy too?)
@shine
