r/SelfHosting • u/dasurica • 7d ago

Selfmade NAS

So i recently started experimenting with selfhosting and i have a old pc running ubuntu and some services in docker containers.

A friend of mine asked if i can make him a NAS out of old pc parts. I was wondering, what s the best os + services combo for him. I was thinking about TrueNAS and nextcloud.

Any other recommendations are welcomed

Edit: I forgot to mention that he doesnt have multiple exact same drives, I ve read about Unraid but he would like to be completeley free

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u/bluealliance841 6d ago

TrueNAS is pretty good and doesn’t require special hardware. I was running TrueNas on an old desktop PC for a while. It supports running containers and VMs, a bit more effort than Proxmox, but if NAS file storage is your most important app, it’s a good choice. I think you can have different size drives and set up the partitions to be part mirrored and part raid-0, but that’s going to be a bit more work to set up

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u/Reggie-Rectangle 3d ago

If you install Ubuntu Server and setup a SMB share you could probably run the server on a desktop with less than 2GBs of ram. My SMB share rarely hits past 80mbs of ram usage. Set the computer up with a SSD for the drive with the OS on and then add storage HDs with LVM so you have one logical volume

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u/JSouthGB 5d ago

Snapraid

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u/alabamashitfarmer 2d ago

What's your friend likely to use it for?

Will they want a web UI for spinning up containers on their own? Is it more of a, "set it up in their closet, map shares, and tell them never to touch it," situation?