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Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by essell@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Thanks to this community I've learned and I'm feeling inspired. I've loved having an NAS for the last few years, but it's woefully under powered for what I'm using it for these days.

So I've ordered some basic PC parts, gonna build a basic setup using an old CPU I got lying about and try the NAS OS I saw talked about on here recently.

TrueNAS looks like a good option with only slight fears it'll go down the well known path to the dark side like so many free options before.

In any event, I'm looking forward to adding Nextcloud and Jellyfin, to trying out Docker and generally having more control over things.

Thanks again to you all for informing and inspiring.

I'll be back if I get questions!

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[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider that a new power efficient CPU may be cheaper by consuming less electricity over a few years!

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't considered that! Thank you.

I'm hoping the OS, as it's designed for this, is going to be helpful in getting the right balance with power usage.

[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If you are concerned about TruNAS, go look at Xigmanas. This is the original FreeNAS project before iX acquired the name.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to donate to your favorite OSS projects.

[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you end up having a mini homelab look into komo.do for container orchestration over the overkill options like kubernetes or portainer

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 1 year ago

anything worth doing is worth overdoing

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome! I personally run proxmox as my host os then virtualize a truenas core VM and have my docker setup in another lxc. A bit more complex than just straight up truenas but its saves me before. I'd recommend looking into it

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You have plenty of options. I use Unraid because I bought it before it became a subscription. But I have a friend running Fedora server with Cockpit and running everything from docker containers. The options are endless. ProxMox is a great choice.