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I want to create a NAS for my family at home. I am already pretty sure about using TrueNAS as software, but the hardware is still open.

What hardware do you recommend for 2TB of usable Storage (+a second drive for mirroring the first one) that is used by 3 people for pictures, videos, and documents?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Consider how the NAS will be used. Is it just file storage, or will you want to stream from it?

If just file storage, you can use lighter hardware.

I'm running a 5 year old Dell Small Form Factor desktop as my NAS/media server. It's power draw is under 12 watts unless I'm converting files. There's room for 3 data drives (boot drive is M2). It has no problem streaming, unlike my consumer NAS. And it cost way less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It will be used just for file storage. But what exactly do you mean by "lighter hardware"? april said anything more than a raspi, so better than the quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor @ 2.4GHz from the raspi 5? (ik that truenas is for x86 and not arm)