My 16TB Home NAS Server - The Setup, Expansion and Future Plans

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Brilliant return to form. I really need to sort out proper back ups for myself, I use a 2x HDD Caddy I got from eBay and that’s working alright but this seems like a far more professional solution

[@ironwolf3699]

I also created a server, I used my old PC and installed debian on it. I run a smb share on it and use it as a minecraft server, plex server, and a nvr for ip cameras. It was a hassle to setup but it is nice to have a server to ssh to and tinker with.

[@razorsz195]

That music hit very loud hah! Perhaps some audio balance is in order for the future, in jealous of all this storage, my 500GB HDD and flash drives seem to work for now though!

[@Techwen]

Yeah, slight accident in the editing with the audio levels.. will be sorted next time :-)

[@MrAndyB]

Nice to see you back on KZbin! You and BBO are without question my 2 favourite tech channels on KZbin

[@jackpearce436]

Fun fact - you can further upgrade the CPU to E3-1240 V2, which dramatically improves CPU performance for Plex, I also managed to fit an AIO cooler on the CPU with the fan/radiator sat outside of the Microserver Gen 8 case. I also use Stablebit and have found it better than Windows Server storage spaces/pools Great video!

[@donovanclarke3826]

How loud is is?

[@jackpearce436]

@@donovanclarke3826 It definitely is not silent, but acceptable. The server lives in my TV unit in the living room, anything I'm watching typically drowns out the sound of the fan on the AIO. Also as there aren't enough fan ports on the MicroServer, I use a NZXT Grid fan controller to manage the pump and fan.

[@thedon1004]

Aio on a server? What a stupid thing to do. 😂

[@jackpearce436]

@@thedon1004 Such a valid, insightful comment.

[@thedon1004]

@@jackpearce436 I had to hold back as it's the most asinine thing I've ever heard. 😂

[@Odee]

omg you are speaking so quietly and then music in your video just woke up my neighbours

[@Mae-nr7wr]

music hurt my ears

[@Cyber_Gas]

Kinda

[@IcebergTech]

Told myself I was going to build a NAS in 2012. I might make it a ten-year anniversary project. (nah, who am I kidding?)

[@StephenBrightwood]

I have one of these which I run Openmediavault on. I upgraded the CPU to an i3-3220 which I pulled from my old pc. This is run on top of Debian which means I can run other services on it as well as NAS. It runs tvheadend for satellite reception and serving TV to media players, pihole for local DNS and adblocking, file manager so I can manage my media files on the server rather than across a networked computer, it also runs the whole suite of Sonarr media searchers and a transmission torrent client to download media with. All of this and I will be adding nextcloud for remote media access - and the CPU doesn't even break a sweet. Openmediavault runs docker so the range of services you can add is nearly endless. Having ILo has gotten me out of a few scrapes when I messed up my configuration and if has allowed me to restore weekly whole OS disk clones remotely.

[@closedcircuittv]

Nice to see you're back mate!

[@theultrahdgamer3540]

Techwen is alive!

[@TEchWIse2203]

Guess who’s back Back again Techwen’s back Tell your friends

[@RealLordy]

Nice video. Just wondering: why using third party software when you are running Server 2019 Datacenter? It has storage spaces available. The nice thing about it is that if your server dies (hardware), you can just pull out the disks and connect them to a bunch of SATA ports of another system (even Windows 10) and you can start using the pool again. No need to attach drives in a specific order or so. The OS figures it out for you. Furthermore, storage spaces also has something called as two way mirror (comparable to RAID 1), which allows for 1 drive failure in your pool. Dependent on the amount of drives you use, you can configure storage spaces to sustain 2 or more drive failures at once... Storage spaces really works fine (just avoid the setup with parity as it is slow: you win space in terrabytes, but has a drawback on performance)

[@JxTechy]

Great video and very informative. Gets me thinking about my own server, and upgrades I might want to take in the future, thanks!

[@muhammedaljerari391]

LETS GOOOO YOUR BACK!

[@RickJohnson]

Also worth mentioning that 8TB Barracuda drive uses SMR recording which is terrible for write performance long-term.

[@TheTimeProphet]

I have the same server and even though it says you can have a max of 16Tbs I have just put an 8Tb drive in one of the bays, and it works.

[@demosantonopoulos4959]

Got my hands on a hp proliant ml310e gen8 v2, 32gb ram and a 240gb SSD with windows 10. How can I make this a nas to run a Plex server

[@minecraft-wb9tb]

I did the same thing from one pc to synology then hp and now I've got dell server with 8 drives

[@MrLukealbanese]

I wonder what ever happened to this guy? Was a great channel.

[@ChristophHoward]

Just life, he posted a new video and made a community post linking to a recent interview

[@peddersmeister]

It's funny, the HP SFF machine you show first is the same box size and layout i started with (HP8200 if i recall!) I currently have a Microserver Gen7, with 5x4TB 3.5" HDDS (one and an ssd in the 5.25 optical bay) I would like to get something thats still low power but a bit more oomph under the bonnet, like the i3 or xeon Gen8 microserver, however i would like to know if i can still fit in all 5 3.5 drives and a 2.5" SSD, do you think it's possible? Thanks

[@Br0wnT0wn]

Hi Techwen, This was a great video very informative, I hope to view these wonderful boxes at somepoint int he future. 😍

[@ahuachapan2]

The music is perfect. Now all my enemies are dead.

[@CobsTech]

A solid build! Will be interesting to see what you experiment with in the future with it.

[@Youbadouba]

ouf, a SMR HDD ?

[@HypaBox]

bro, where are you

[@rossfromsa]

Cool. I have both the Gen7 and the Gen8 as well for the same purposes as you.

[@CaliWalli]

thank you - also, jeesus music levels too loud!

[@anti-socialmedia8195]

That is the machine I want as well. One thing you might be able to do as a true poor mans nas is if your "modem" supports it, you can plug a usb array directly into your modem/hub gizmo and boom, super easy nas....

[@170theturbostar3]

Very cool return

[@djangointerface8441]

First of all, great video. I would love to see where you end up with this server. I have the same server with the stock cpu, (soon to be upgraded to same xeon you have), 16GB RAM and 4 x 2TB WD Red Disks. I have installed ESXi 6.7 on it and installed TrueNAS on a VM. I provisioned 2 x 2TB virtual Disks for TrueNAS and created data pools. One of them shared over the network as SMB share. My next upgrade will be the storage to the maximum I can afford!

[@nomenbanda]

Can I connect this server to my TV like an external hard drive to watch movies or series stored on it

[@johnnguyen-xt9nd]

How did you get Truenas to boot after install? My Gen8 won’t boot into Truenas. After successfully install from USB on the motherboard it won’t boot into Truenas. It just keep redundant goes round and round into the hp load screen.

[@Trebz50]

Same with me. I installed Truenas onto an SSD, connected to the motherboard, can't get it to boot to the OS regardless of which BIOS sttings I mess about with. It boots fine when using a USB stick connected to the motherboard USB port...but I'm not trusting my NAS with a USB boot.

[@stevenbell9589]

Hi I have a question I have an old n36l proliant microserver and still going strong as a storage server but a little slow and can't see myself upgrading it anyway I did see that you have a gen7 server can I ask what os you have on yours or what would you recommend as I'm looking at setting mine back up as a storage server again but not sure what os to use

[@rahulshah1408]

Nice video. Enjoyed it.

[@stormk-1130]

I was looking your cheap plex server for 20. with this media servers you need to configure your ip address too?

[@MadMatty72]

Why not use DriveBender?

[@islamaiman6528]

hi guys =D I am about to buy the Gen8 to be my main plex server is it good? I don't understand so much about computers so I really don't know if these numbers will make my streaming ( one device or 2 maximum ) smooth I have 4 harddisks (3TB X4 ) loaded with blue ray movies and 1080

[@prayclub]

I though the spec for this server was 4tb per slot.. were you able to put 8 tb in one slot? What is the maximun you can add?

[@Techwen]

The limit was probably 4TB at a time when it was released as manufacturers can only guarantee the highest industry standard for their hardware. In theory there is no physical or software restriction that stops you from putting higher capacity drives in.

[@gehadaman3951]

Can you make a minecraft server guide ¿¿

[@underwoodblog]

Music is way to loud compared to other audio level!

[@azzip3246]

Rip

[@Techwen]

i am dead

[@Touring113]

Excellent video :) interesting stuff

[@DaWangMonster]

Green ham gaming has insipered us all to start a KZbin tech channel!!Loved the Easter eggs!I wish if you would do a how to set up a windows server☺️

[@favioescalon528]

Green Ham Gaming is legendary. Sadly he'll never come back as he once did but luckily we can always go back to watch his videos at any time.

[@maximus6884]

Love the music

[@n1klas5g]

I can recommend unRAID for this drive configuration. Then you can go Linux :-) And you have data security with the parity drive.

[@R055LE.1]

Balance. Your. Audio.

[@tech_mad_lad]

Love the video bud, i too shared a similar journey to you, Synology, HP Microserver etc, except i now run a Dell R710 running unRaid, might need to put a video out myself on my journey like you did (as there have been many trials and hiccups along the way). Be interested to chat about future ideas on Home NAS development :D

[@kwanchan6745]

I've got several of these and will be experimenting by swapping the CPU for an I5-3470T and taking the RAM upto 16GB I will run proxmox as a hypervisor from a smallish SSD, with a VM running xigma nas or open media vault to implement a NAS over the 4x 3TB drives I will put into it I will have a second VM running windows 11, hosting plex + sabnzb + nord VPN + bittorrent + jdownloader proxmox will use the 4 drives in a ZFS Z1 config, allocating minimal storage to the NAS boot device, and probably about 2TB to the windows VM, leaving 6TB of usable space for video files each network port will be dedicated to its own VM to alleviate excessive bottlenecks when ingressing/egressing data from the machine lets see how this goes and what kind of energy draw it uses

[@zyghom]

the difference of the volume between you speaking and the music makes this video ... difficult to watch

[@jw5031]

dude your music is way too loud

[@mitsostechtips9047]

The thing is that I just discovered this channel and it's dying just like my channel

[@ChapuzasconRober]

Windows???? Really???

[@RadioMartyT1B]

I know, right?

[@mdd1963]

"Fully activated Windows Server 2019 Datacenter" LOL! Good choice! (I mean, who uses one of the pathetic Linux variants for NAS stuff anyway, right?)

[@ShaferHart]

most people

[@ddrweb_]

:)) wtf this loud music

[@WRNPR]

16tb? That’s cute, my Plex server is 70tb

[@ardenan129]

1st :D

[@UKVampy]

No theres still a dislike button.