Building a Compact and Efficient DIY NAS for 2026

In this article, Brian Moses shares his latest DIY NAS build for 2026, focusing on a compact 8-bay server with modern components like the Intel N355 CPU and 32GB DDR5 RAM. He discusses the criteria for his build, such as a small form factor, low power consumption, and homelab potential. The build in... [More info]

I've been running Proxmox for a very very long time, but I transitioned my applications away from VMs and into Containers making Proxmox less relevant.

I have been reading up on TrueNAS, and the same hardware that I was using for Proxmox is the perfect hardware for TrueNAS.

Seriously considering a switch.

#proxmox #truenas #zfs #nas

I had a lot of fun spinning up my first #TrueNAS server this spring. Learnt a lot in the process and got a robust backup solution in place, as well as a couple of #selfhosted apps that replaced cloud services for me.

Six months later, most of the fun is gone. But that’s only because its now just doing its thing, without me having to tinker with it.

Highly recommended!
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115630800136457218

set up a new #Jellyfin docker container on my #TrueNAS box using a yaml file

works great until I try to watch a video, at which time the system promptly overheats and shuts down.

So um, that ain't great.

Troubleshooting ahead. Meanwhile, I guess I'll just play it through VLC on my laptop instead.

Building a Compact and Efficient DIY NAS for 2026

Brian’s compact NAS build is impressive—balancing size, performance, and efficiency isn’t easy. Love the detailed assembly and testing insights. TrueNAS choice makes sense for reliability, though the case quirks seem tricky. Thoughtful planning is key!

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I'm not sure if TrueNAS is expecting hot swappable drives, but here's a question for the community...

I have a failing drive in a Z2 array.
It's not hot swappable.

Can I offline the drive in TrueNAS, power off and replace the drive physically, and then power the host back on and do it in software?

Or do i need to add the new drive physically, configure as a hot spare, and replace and remove the failing drive?

#TrueNAS

Anyone who got @bonfire running as a custom app on #TrueNAS?

#selfhost #selfhosting #Fediverse

#Linux and #Homelab experts, I need your help, please.

Currently I have both a racked NAS and a racked gaming PC. The NAS is based off an Intel 14500 CPU, doubles as my homelab, and it even has a GPU for the odd self-hosted LLM (for Karakepp duties)

The gaming PC is a 7600X machine with an AMD GPU running Bazzite, so I can run stuff through Steam Streaming to my other machines.

The gaming PC actually has a second PCIe 16x slot...

So, how crazy would it be if I condensed everything into the 7600X machine, with #Proxmox or #Incus as the base OS, a passthrough of the current NVMe and GPU for the gaming VM, and a passthrough of the other disks and GPU to a #TrueNAS VM, which could also deal with the Docker stuff?

My only issue with doing that would be that I might need to upgrade the RAM and the CPU on the gaming PC, to run everything...

🚀 Đã có CSI driver cho TrueNAS SCALE tích hợp với Kubernetes! Hỗ trợ tự động provision NFS (lưu trữ chia sẻ) và NVMe‑oF (block hiệu năng cao). ✅ Tạo, mở rộng, snapshot, xóa volume ngay từ k8s. Thích hợp cho media server, DB, workload tốc độ cao. Đang ở giai đoạn early testing, cần phản hồi từ cộng đồng homelab. #TrueNAS #Kubernetes #CSI #NFS #NVMe #Homelab #LưuTrữ #SelfHosted #OpenSource

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1p6l9rj/kubernetes_csi_driver_for_truenas_scale_nfs/