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Introduction
In my homelab, I need somewhere I can put datas, outside of my Proxmox VE cluster.
At the beginning, my only one physical server has 2 HDDs disks of 2 TB. When I installed Proxmox on it, these disks were still attached to the host. I managed to share the content using a NFS server in a LXC, but this was far from a good practice.
During this winter, the node started to fail, it was stopping by itself for no reason. This bad boy is 7 years old. When it was shut down, the NFS share were unavailable, which was affecting some services in my homelab. Luckily I could fix it up by replacing its CPU fan, but now I want a safer place for these datas.
I this article I will walk you through the entire build of my NAS, using TrueNAS.
Choose the the right platform
For a while I wanted to have a NAS. Not one ready out-of-the-box like Synology or QNAP. While I think these are good products, I wanted to build mine. But I have a huge constraint of space in my tiny rack and the choice for a small NAS case are very limited.
Then I consider full flash NAS. This has several advantages:
- It is fast
- It is small
- It consumes less
- It heats less But with a major drawback, the price.
While the speed is negligible to me because my network can't handle it, the others are exactly what I'm looking for. I don't need a massive volume a data, around 2 TB of usable space is enough.
My first choice was the Aiffro K100. But I couldn't find a way to have it deliver in France without doubling the price. Finally I managed to buy a Beelink ME mini.
This small cube has 2x 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports and can host up to 6x NVMe drives. I started with 2 drives for now, 2 TB each.