You Might Not Want to Build the CHEAPEST Possible NAS

[@aChairLeg]

Here I'll save you some time 😀 01010011 01110101 01100010 01110011 01100011 01110010 01101001 01100010 01100101

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Linux installs struggle if you have a Windows suspend/sleep partition. Lenovo is really great for Linux. I've been running it on my Thinkpads for 10yrs. I've only ever used XFCE desktop Debian distros like AV Linux & Makulu. I'm glad you had a good experience with Pop 👍 I'm sorry but I don't know how to help with your networking problem . Microsoft has actually used several non standard tweaks to break Linux/Windows networking over the years ☹️

[@aChairLeg]

@@edwardfletcher7790 Funnily enough, when I completely re-installed trunas, and copied my exact config, file sharing started to work... so just a quirk of either trunas or Pop.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@aChairLeg Good work ! Getting cross platform networking up and running is pretty much the Gold standard of Linux newbie skills👍😆

[@jirehla-ab1671]

​@@aChairLegI have an Small form factor optiplex system, may gonna try to turn it into a NAS, any tips

[@larkr]

Criminally under-subbed channel. Keep up the great work!

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you! Working on getting a consistent schedule out for every Wednesday and Saturday! My bank account hates me but I'm having a good time haha

[@midnightmythos]

Amazing work as always, you always seem to make videos on things right as I'm coincidentally getting interested in them (linux on thinkpads, making a NAS, etc)

[@aChairLeg]

Haha that's awesome! I figured it was a natural progression from the $100 gaming pc. Was for sure nervous to talk about used drives, especially since one of the ones I bought for this video was having issues, but it happens.

[@nagi4966]

I love you so much , i stumbled upon your channel recently and being the poor student that i am i definitely needed this.

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you! Glad I can help people save money and enjoy tech. I've always wanted someone to put a channel together for cheap used tech, but eventually figured I should just do it myself haha

[@robertpiper6860]

If you have the money then use it for good drives and hardware. If you don’t have the money, you have nothing to lose. Long live (hopefully) cheapskate used hardware!

[@aChairLeg]

Exactly! For the longest time my used drives were my backup (I know weird) until I needed to upgrade, and noticed they were purring along perfectly. In the future I think I'm going to switch to 1-2 year old drives, maybe even open box ones to save some hassle though

[@johnm9767]

“Like a god damn hot pocket” earned an instant subscription and like. 😂😂

[@AndehX]

I'd actually recommend something like an HP Z230 over the Optiplex. It has a Xeon CPU, which allows for ECC memory, and more room for storage. I got one on ebay last week for £75 I'd say that if you decide you want, let's say, 12TB of storage, I'd recommend buying 4 4TB drives instead of 2 6TB drives. This will give you options for redundancy. with 2 drives, you basically have no option for redundancy, unless you sacrifice half of your 12TB of storage. If you buy 4 4TB drives, you can use one of those for redundancy, and still have 12TB of storage. Just make sure if a drive starts to fail, REPLACE IT IMMEDIATELY, otherwise you could risk losing your data. Sounds dangerous, but it's better than running only 2 drives with half the storage space. or basically no redundancy... Also, you bought the exact same SATA HBA that I got! Still waiting for it to arrive.

[@Yaxqb]

Counterpoint: having many drives makes your electricita bill go brrrr

[@samsinclair3001]

You should move the blue HyperX RAM DIMM to the #2 slot (your motherboard labels it as #1). Right now your PC is running the RAM in single channel mode, not dual channel. You'll notice a performance increase after you change it.

[@aChairLeg]

The HyperX is 8gb and the other DIMM is 4gb, I believe they're both different speeds too, so I chose to not run them in dual channel. I did pickup a second hyperX 8gb DIMM though for a follow-up with the $100 gaming pc, so after three videos it will finally be in dual channel! haha

[@destronger5313]

this is where i started. i’m currently switching over to a terramaster 4 drive with UnRaid. i’ll be moving from my Frankenstein HP with TrueNAS Scale. i’m doing this to lower power use and to simplify my set up. i have a ProxMox HP too which i can use the Terramaster as well. my main uses are a samba, plex, and possible minecraft. if this terramaster doesn’t work out for the minecraft i plan to get sff pc for proxmox later.

[@snowflakezzonPC]

I built a home file share server for my wife and I. It cost me nothing because I got the pc for free and repaired and sold old laptops to fund the parts. It is a fully upgraded Dell Dimension 9200. Intel core 2 quad Q6600 quad core cpu, 8gb ddr2 667mhz, GT 710 2GB GDDR6 (yes, that version exists) and two WD red 4TB drives in RAID1 mirrored for redundancy. The system kicks ass at processing and move files and is only bottlenecked by my home network speed limit of 100MBPS. All running on W10 on a 128GB $20 SSD. Totally worth it!

[@aChairLeg]

That's an awesome deal! The great thing about servers is they require basically no power, so you can make them with pretty much any hardware you have lying around.

[@CarbonPanther]

Where on earth did you see a GDDR6 GT 710? As far as i'm concerned that should only exist as a typo on a product page maybe.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

For anyone thinking about DIY NAS. Do your research about avoiding SMR Hard drives before you buy !!

[@stefanfun3]

I came for the tech videos, i stayed for the self reflection awesome videos, keep it up!

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you! Trying my best to keep uploading as much as I can haha

[@caleballen1330]

Hey! Just found your channel and love that you have similar interests to me - can't wait for your main server video!

[@Benjamin-hv7vz]

I love these kinds of vids!

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you!

[@Kennephone]

I'll never forget when I legally downloaded thousands of hours of old tv shows and let my Aero 15 (before it was stolen) go for like 3 days transcoding everything down to 480x360 at 372kbps h.265 with 128k mp3 audio (this was before I discovered how good aac and opus are). The quality is actually better than you'd think, being only a little worse than a good dvd, keep in mind though, a lot of it started out as standard def anyway, and I intended to watch it from a tv tray on a 15'' laptop screen.

[@Facade866]

I love you videos they are just fun and entertaining to watch!

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you!

[@rdsii64]

I only run Exos drives in my media server. I buy new when I can, used when I have to, but only Exos drives!

[@aChairLeg]

I've been loving them so far! Planning on switching to lightly used 12tb Exos drives with some WD black M.2 Caches

[@robsquared2]

I spent waaaay too much on my NAS because I want the thing to last forever. Most of it was spent on 8TB SATA SSDs, I have a dozen of them. I do have some older spinning drives (4 TB and 10 TB that I shucked).

[@aChairLeg]

That's a ton of storage! The hardest part for me is having to upgrade my backup and main server. Instantly doubles the cost

[@robsquared2]

@@aChairLeg good point. My backup method is also a bit odd. I have bluray burners so everything I have is just on cold storage. I also pay for backblaze, thank god for their no max backup size. My data set is like 40TB right now.

[@user-fs9mv8px1y]

That's more $$$ in Ssd's than my entire server rack wtf

[@pismenko]

Sir, you have a very nice voice

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you!

[@CodexSan]

I might make myself a server in the future, Thing is, technology in Brazil is so hecking expensive, nothing is produced locally, everything is imported, and since the Brazilian currency is so devalued, and import fees are astronomical, getting electronics is pretty hard. I managed to throw together a first gen Ryzen in 2019, and that's what I'm using since. But yeah, like, I'm still running mechanical drives for everything, one of them failed, and I had to go for a 5200 rpm notebook one, and there's where my system is installed. Most of the parts I used came from China, including the motherboard, (by a brand called Colorful, which makes decent Intel boards, mind you, but their "venture" into AMD territory caused my system instability) I do shopping from China since they can literally declare any value on the receipt, (Import fees can go as high as +78% of the product price, so NewEgg and eBay are just no go) so yeah, I committed tax evasion just to get a pc running. I saw my first SSD not long ago, on a new notebook, the boot times with Garuda on it looked kinda nice. I'm pretty accustomed to 6 mins boot time. and now I'm planning on getting one in the coming months. I might use an old pentium that I have lying around, throw some mechanical drives from China, with the proper HBA, (those things runs IDE after all) just so I can stream my *"Modified"* **Wink Wink** software to my computer. "Modified" software in Brazil is legal, as long as it's used for personal consumption. Let's not employ the P word here, since KZbin, being a US company, is subject to DMCA, and they usually delete my comment when I employ that word.

[@aChairLeg]

Hey, first gen ryzen is still great! I use an 1800x in my main PC, since even with editing 4k video, I haven't found a good reason to upgrade. Hopefully you can get yourself a server going in the future, absolutely a game changer.

[@PedroHenrique-zm7pk]

Uma opção legal é vc comprar laptops quebrados(apenas a tela). Comprei um que dava pra trocar a CPU por 75 reais, tirei o Celeron que tava e coloquei um i5 (comprado do Aliexpress) e fiz a mesma coisa que vc. Coloquei o maior HD usado que dava e um SSD pra iniciar o sistema e pronto. Uso como um media player conectado à um monitor que eu comprei por 80 reais. O sistema todo custou 400, incluindo o SSD, o RAM que eu já tinha sobrando e o HD. Com esse aumento das taxas no Aliexpress vai ficar difícil montar um PC, mas ainda dá pra desenrolar. Não sei se vc já conseguiu montar, mas fica aí minha dica.

[@ZincLeadAlloy]

Another awesome video!

[@aChairLeg]

Thank you!

[@trashtronics1700]

Used drives are fine and much more robust then people claim I have multiple 20 year old drives still going strong

[@aChairLeg]

Those 6tb drives are still in use, along with two used 12tb drives. No issues with any so far

[@giovaanflores7019]

I still have my WD HDD from 2003 lol ,still works no issues .

[@outl1t]

Youre pretty funny, thabks fkr this video! Hope you're having a good day :)

[@jonathanparker123]

if your goal was to not waste parts, you couldve flipped it and have like a series going from 100$ to 1000$ or something like that with flipping pcs. id like to see that in the future, goodluck! #roadto10k

[@Napert]

12TB for $100? meanwhile my local listings: 4TB for $100 and if you want cheaper all you'll get will be broken "for parts" drives (used ofc)

[@isaaccerreto8662]

I love your videos, and what type of mods you use? Just curious

[@tristanb.8561]

I have the main problem I can't find a power supply that has enough S-ata power connections ^^ I currently have 5 internal drives installed and actually need more. There is enough spacein the Case. But the power supply unit have not enough connections for S-ata drives. 😞

[@zeroturn7091]

You could fit 6 SATA SSDs + 4 3.5” HDDs. Also, I wouldn’t count these out as gaming PCs if one prefers the aesthetics. A motherboard swap isn’t that difficult.

[@zeroturn7091]

Had to come back to say that it isn’t such a good idea to pack these full of drives. I just checked HWInfo, and the drives that I have in 5.25” bay adapters are being cooked at 55C.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

not a bad NAS, I have a G3930 with 2x8gb DDR4 ram and thinking of getting a quad-core Xeon from Kabylake and an x50 card for cheap then call it good till an HDD quits on me.

[@OShackHennessy]

If you use a mirrored drive is that different than using storage spaces? And if so is there any way to tell that one disk is bad?

[@help_changeyourfuture]

Dude, you should turn that pc into a server.

[@MarceloAugusto-fb1lx]

1:29 don't install your RAM like this, the channels are colored for showing where you have to put your RAM for they function in dual channel... (Sorry my English, I learned by myself and I'm not good :'))

[@trashpanda502]

How do I make a laptop into a server?

[@wilsondavenport6939]

WHY ARE THE RAM STICKS IN WRONG YOUR LOOSING PREFERENCE They should be one slot apart to be in dual channel

[@galihpratama2295]

This good but i got cheaper by modding my stb into armbian server

[@lmanders2]

Yo, I don't have any friends either, I'll play Minecraft with you!

[@aChairLeg]

Haha that modded world is from last year, between work and youtube I don't have much time to game anymore. Sometimes I'll end up playing the game while benchmarking and end up with a 10gb video file of me just playing something. If I manage to find the time to get a discord together, a minecraft server for it could be interesting, I would just need lots of help (and money) to get that going

[@trashpanda502]

Ill join the minecraft server

[@vinsan98]

Windows 🙌

[@ohshoot444]

Man this got complicated quick.

[@aChairLeg]

Haha it's not too bad if you just want to skip the HBA, install the drives as normal, mirror the drives, then just share a file in windows. Then you can access the drives from other computers easily

[@mrq332]

omg windows software raid ! lol

[@pierrecarvalho8773]

Don't buy the new WD blue SA510 SSD s. They are shit. Get older more expensive ones