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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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe you could pickup a old workstation and drop a few drives in it. It is fairly affordable and would allow you to get your feet wet. For ZFS you really want lots of ram so make sure you get enough.

How are you going to mount the storage? Do you need some sort of shared authentication? I personally would either use software Nextcloud or Synching or an active directory deployment via Samba.

[–] mcmodknower@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

I planned to use nfs, since it is one of the options of TrueNAS and it works on both windows and linux.