Storage recommendation to pair with N100
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n00namer · 2023-11-04 08:43

Hey folks, I have just started my journey with media server at home,
so I’m bombarding this sub with questions.

I bought beelink S12 mini pro recently for media server. So currently
looking for a media storage to pair with this minipc.

I have been reading a lot about NAS, but considering I’ll get minipc I
am not sure I need to invest into expensive NAS? Can you give me some
advice/suggestion?

I’m planing to run proxmox with few LXC containers, like arr suite +
plex, homebridge

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dazchad · 2023-11-04 09:34

Most people don’t need NAS. However the commodity and utility can pay
off.

A hard disk in an enclosure attached to your minipc ought to be enough
if you are ok losing all your data when, not if, your drive fails. In
this case, having a NAS with RAID is useful. You can most definitely
have a RAID setup without a NAS, but if you are going to the trouble
of setting up a RAID then why not setup a NAS at the same time?

I don’t use myself, but check truenas and unraid. You can install
those on your own hardware. If I were to start today, I might have
gone through this route instead of getting a synology plus another
server to pick up where my synology wasn’t powerful enough.

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n00namer · 2023-11-04 10:07

yeah, I think the only issue with HDD enclosures (DAS) that they
exposed as a single device trough USB.

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ffimnsr · 2023-11-05 06:26

Try new multi enclosures with USB4 speeds or thunderbolt. With
preferably m.2 nvme storage and connect it to mini pc. Mine a simple
stack of SSD in raid config

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n00namer · 2023-11-05 08:45

Thanks. any recommendations?

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ffimnsr · 2023-11-05 10:37

You can try owc thunderbay if Thunderbolt is supported. Otherwise,
maybe some orico brand raid enclosures

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n00namer · 2023-11-05 11:08

I read that RAID is the worse you can get and better just to get own
and do software RAID.

I was looking into this one: https://amzn.eu/d/5dXy14O

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ffimnsr · 2023-11-05 11:15

It depends. You can manually create a raid setup on your own, the
thing with hardware raid you offload the processing on separate chip.
Software raids usually have some performance issues. Search on the
manufacturer review before doing the setup or buying things

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kmisterk · 2023-11-06 18:56

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