I want to turn my old PC into a home NAS, I've got the hw prepped and ready but I'm stuck on choosing which OS to useUsecace would be always-online redundant storage for all my files, archives and 'jaks and possibly make it accessible from my phonoI'd

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Home NAS Chud 08/25/26 (Tue) 17:52:06 №37329 [Quote]

I want to turn my old PC into a home NAS, I've got the hw prepped and ready but I'm stuck on choosing which OS to use
Usecace would be always-online redundant storage for all my files, archives and 'jaks and possibly make it accessible from my phono
I'd also like to have the option to host vidyagame servers on that machine in the future, which made me consider windoes instead of trueNAS as the OS, thoughts?

Chud 08/25/26 (Tue) 17:57:22 №37331 [Quote]

Specs if anyphono cares
>16GB DDR3
>AMD FX-8350
>RX 580
>2x 4TB HDD in RAID 0
could this rig be optimized for minimal power draw?

Chud 08/25/26 (Tue) 18:02:45 №37334 [Quote]

>>37329 (OP)
also another thing is that machine has a CD-ROM, which I'd like to use for cd burning but that's not an option in trueNAS as far as I can tell

Chud 08/25/26 (Tue) 21:02:03 №37346 [Quote]

Can't you just do TrueNAS in a docker doe

Chud 08/25/26 (Tue) 21:19:56 №37347 [Quote]

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>I want to turn my old PC into a home NAS, I've got the hw prepped and ready but I'm stuck on choosing which OS to use
>Usecace would be always-online redundant storage for all my files, archives and 'jaks and possibly make it accessible from my phono
>I'd also like to have the option to host vidyagame servers on that machine in the future, which made me consider windoes instead of trueNAS as the OS, thoughts?

Chud 08/26/26 (Wed) 04:07:27 №37369 [Quote]

I too want to know how to make a NAS, i have 3 old pcs but im too retarded to know the basics

Chud 08/26/26 (Wed) 04:33:20 №37377 [Quote]

why do you want to make your computer not a soyjak? marge?

Chud 08/27/26 (Thu) 15:00:22 №37468 [Quote]

Can't you use Alpine? Read somewhere that its good for servers and shit because it's so lightweight. If you're going to host a website then you should have good opsec as a whois lookup can reveal your name and registrar if you have dogshit opsec.