Hopefully these kinds of posts are allowed in this community, but if not feel free to point me in the correct direction.
I currently have a Synology DS218+ (I believe, it’s one of the 2-bay + models) that I’ve been using for several years now as a home server/NAS, but I think it’s time to replace it with something new.
I’m debating building something from scratch and just throwing Linux on it. Despite having built my last 3 computers, I’m still pretty bad at understanding specs and planning out builds. I was hoping you fine folks would be able to help give me some suggestions.
The Synology is currently running (and I would expect to move these over to the new build) the following:
Plex
Tautulli
FreshRss
Mealie
Calibre
Stash
Having something purpose built for this means I’d probably explore also hosting my own music library, photo back up, pi-hole, vpn, etc.
Does anyone have suggestions of builds, or at least specific minimums I should ensure?
Unraid has a Black Friday sale coming up, if you’re not set on spending time building a full Linux NAS from scratch Unraid is a lot easier as a base.
That’s true, but they also seem to be very power hungry and noisy. I built a fanless server which is consuming 11-12 Watts in idle.