to Netmounnt or not
reddit / selfhosted

----------------------------------------------------------------------
SillyMyDiddle · 2023-10-03 14:53

**Context**: currently I have some network volumes with my media on it
(tv/films/music/etc) on a NAS. The network drives are connected to a
vm with my services running on it (Jellyfin, Airsonic, etc.).

**The Setup**: This setup has worked great but i'm running out of
space for my media (currently a 2TB dataset on a 4 drive (+cache disk)
RZ2 8TB share on Truenas) .

**The Plan**: I'm planning on building a dedicated media box and
moving my services to that (god I love docker) and other services i
run locally. I got some larger drives that should suffice for the
media but my question is this: should I opt for the storage on the new
dedicated media machine or should I keep them on the network share?
I'm leaning toward moving it all over and having direct access and
then using the network to back the media up in a zip archive or
something. wanted to see if you lot had any insight that I'm not
seeing.

Cheers!

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ericesev · 2023-10-03 15:07

>I'm leaning toward moving it all over and having direct access

This is what I do. I figure no sense adding congestion to the network
if it can be avoided. And one fewer network service that needs to be
secured.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
SillyMyDiddle · 2023-10-03 15:47

Thank you for your input and I'm glad you agree! Makes me feel more
comfortable with this approach.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
TheRealSeeThruHead · 2023-10-03 16:24

I much prefer a dedicated nas device.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
SillyMyDiddle · 2023-10-03 18:16

I would still have my NAS in this setup. Why do you prefer it out of
curiosity?

----------------------------------------------------------------------
TheRealSeeThruHead · 2023-10-03 18:23

there's something nice about keeping compute and storage clean and
separated.

i often want to change one or the other but not both, even if i were
to use the same hardware i would put the nas and compute nodes into
different VMs on the same machine.

seems simpler and easier to make change if they are separated