Sander5d ago

A friend of mine want to move away from Big Tech and migrate to self-hosted TrueNAS. We were thinking of a setup like this:

- 2x 128 GB SSD (in RAID1) for TrueNAS system
- 2x 1 or 2 TB SSD (in RAID1) for data
- 16 or 32 GB RAM in order to run some apps

Ideally this all should run on a (low energy) mini-PC. I have been trying to find one that fits 4 SSD (normal and/or M.2)., but was not able to find one.

Do such mini-PCs even exist or do we need to start looking a small-factor desktop-PCs instead?

We are very much looking for recommendations. Thx!

(Backups will be done on an old QNAP I have laying around, so that topic is also covered).

#TrueNAS #Selfhosting #Homelab

Show threadShiv J.M.
@spiezmaestro Is 2/4 TB (effective) enough? With ZFS you should ideally stay under 90% usage, and with snapshots you need to overprovision it anyway.
May 10 at 8:09pmTusky
Show threadSander5d ago
@shivjm he is currently analyzing his current needs with a sizable buffer. Currently it looks like even 1 TB (effective) data space would be sufficient with the years to come, but I will recommend him to go to at least 2 TB nevertheless.
Show threadShiv J.M.5d ago
@spiezmaestro Ah, sounds good then!