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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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submitted 11 months ago by Mr_spinoza@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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It's been quite some time i dealt with hardware. I'd like to think i've chosen a "close to future proof" parts for my needs, however, i'm pretty sure i might made some mistakes. For that I'm humbly requesting your expert feedback to find the flows in this build 🙏🏼

Config: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6L884M

As silent as possible, compact but good airflow(hence less power hungry, right?). Im open to change anything. But hear me out:

NAS for media (movies + music + photo album)
i do code, quite a lot and want to make use of virtualization hence probably dockers for pet projects (nothing crazy)
no media editing whatsoever, just maybe occasional pic and video trims from family trips and prepare photo albums
went with intel to avoid purchasing a GPU for hw transcoding, also for virtualisation
added one M2 for OS and other apps
maybe in future i can add a SSD or use the m2_2 not sure yet. (30 TB available space from Raid 5 should last me quite long tbh)
empty PCIe slots for possible expansion or network card maybe.
i'll most likely make use of on board wifi 6
it'll probably run 5 days a week on average so i tried to consider low power consumption but i'm not sure if i've done a good job.
OS i want to go for is True NAS Core with RAID5 using 4x10TB (mixed toshiba and WD to increase fault tolerance)
wish this case had hot swap cage tho :(

Thank you very much in adv🙏🏼

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[–] CederGrass759@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A very fine build! 👌 To be quite honest, maybe a little over-spec:ed for this fairly light use-case/purpose (price, power usage). But that does mean that you’ll have plenty of room for growth; virtualization etc

[–] Mr_spinoza@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

thank you. i know its a bit overkill now but like you said, i was aiming for growth. the PCI slots are all empty now. I'll see if i'll be adding extra storage, network card or GPU... thanks for your comment