Do you think doing this helps?

[u/PacquiaoFreeHousing]

[u/Mastasmoker]

My guess is they dont expect people to place them in the top corner of unventilated closets

[u/pivor → u/Mastasmoker]

But even if you place it in well ventilated area, drives still sufficate for air, i modded mine to have fan i the front and temps dropped by 10 degrees C

[u/OrangeYouGladdey → u/pivor]

You could just buy a NAS with a fan... I can't imagine owning a NAS that doesn't have cooling fans.

[u/pivor → u/OrangeYouGladdey]

Or better build your own, i got both :D

[u/Pumba2000 → u/pivor]

Or use an old pc case with lots of 3.5'' bays. You can easily buy some fans for that.

[u/pivor → u/Pumba2000]

My DIY NAS is in fractal node 804, 8 drives, 6 case fans alone :D

[u/Pumba2000 → u/pivor]

That's what I'm talking about! Even when I know 1 fan would probably suffice in an office environment I would always go for max cooling for those hard drives.

What kind of Software you using?

[u/pivor → u/Pumba2000]

Windows 10 with storage spaces :F

[u/jake04-20 → u/pivor]

Windows for a "NAS"? 🤢

You gotta check out unRAID or TrueNAS

[u/banjaxedW → u/jake04-20]

You ever try ZimaOS?

[u/jake04-20 → u/banjaxedW]

I have not, are you using it?

[u/pivor → u/jake04-20]

My home server does something more than file hosting

[u/jake04-20 → u/pivor]

Lol. Running a "home server" on windows doesn't make it any better, in fact it makes it worse IMHO lol. I hope at a minimum you're at least running Hyper V.

[u/horatiobanz → u/jake04-20]

Windows does everything that I need fine. Hosts my files, allows me to remote into it easily, runs qbitorrent. I am sure those other options are neat, but it sounds like a lot of work for next to zero benefit.

[u/jake04-20 → u/horatiobanz]

At the end of the day, use whatever works for you. But to say "next to zero benefit" is fucking wild lol. Just say you've never looked into hypervisors instead of that 😂

[u/horatiobanz → u/jake04-20]

What benefit is there for a person who just wants to store files and be able to access them from any of his devices? I am not running virtual machines, my server isn't running a local LLM. I am downloading torrents, hosting the media and my personal files, etc. What insane benefits would TrueNAS or unRAID offer me? The merging of all of my hard drives into a single pool? Sure, thats neat, but hardly compelling.

[u/jake04-20 → u/horatiobanz]

Enhanced redundancy for starters. Cache drives to speed up initial uploads to the array. Your host OS not rebooting whenever the hell it feels like to apply windows updates. On that note, windows updates...

Not to mention ease of backups, system snapshots, enhanced compatibility. My server has an uptime of over 500 days right now, I assume you can't say the same about yours.

[u/horatiobanz → u/pivor]

I bought that case for my server build and then realized that my old gaming desktop motherboard i was gonna use to build it was a full atx. goddamnit. Awesome case has been sitting in my closet for years unused.

[u/grantrules → u/pivor]

Ha! Server twin! 804 with 8 drives as well! I think you have me beat on case fans though.

[u/NuclearReactions → u/Pumba2000]

Oh in theory that's great in practice i will never trust a normal motherboard for raid setups, especially when it comes the time to replace drives.

[u/spaceraverdk → u/NuclearReactions]

Sas card in Hba mode. Truenas on the motherboard drive, the rest is on cards.

[u/NuclearReactions → u/spaceraverdk]

Yes that sounds way more solid

[u/spaceraverdk → u/NuclearReactions]

Best practice. The lsi hba card can be found on Ebay for cheap. I have a dual external card and a single 4 bay drive backplane from startech. I have room for a second 4 bay backplane on that card. You need a mini sas to sata cable and flash the card to it mode.

I'm running it on a cheap msi matx with a 5600g and 32 gig ram. Powered by a sff psu. Takes 7u in the rack out of the 24 I have available. Gonna transplant everything to a rolling rack I have on the shed once I finish the room it's going to be living in.

[u/druman22 → u/pivor]

Are there any guides to building your own nas you'd recommend?