The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Knowledgeoflight on 2024-09-28 01:21:33.
I've only had this nas for maybe a month or two, but the performance has been so awful. I'll sum up my main problems:
- The hardware is having major trouble keeping up. It only has 1gb of ram. Also, it has an arm cpu that isn't powerful. So, beyond the web ui lagging, especially when doing media indexing and large transfers too iirc, it's just generally slow. If I'm trying to transfer a good number files, say backing up files stored with tartube, it slows waaaay down.
- To make this all even worse, my main planned use case, aside from consolidating and backing up files from different devices and drives, is a) storing media (downloads via tartube, media rips/backups, etc) and b) serving that media to my various devices. Performance when it comes to storage and transfers has been bad enough that I haven't even tried deploying the TOS media server or plex.
The Datto NAS has 32GB ram and a xeon d 1521, so it should be much more capable. That being said, I still have a couple of questions.
- What OS should I put on the NAS? I'd prefer to have something free/libre, but I'm unsure which one would best fit my use case. My top list of options would probably include TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, and maybe Amahi or Rockstor. I'm a bit less certain about those latter two though. My top priorities are being able to have relatively painless file storage, being able to use my NAS as a media server, and being able to manage downloads, especially yt-dlp downloads (preferably at the channel level) on the NAS. That being said, I'd still love to be able to use my NAS to self-host other services too, like a personal dashboard, version control repositories, or to do lists.
- What RAID configuration should I use? I'm leaning towards RAID 1, but I'm unsure of whether there are better options. For example there are special RAID options for ZFS.