{"id":96,"date":"2019-10-25T20:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.osba.nl\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2019-10-26T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:13:06","slug":"a-new-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/en\/2019\/10\/25\/a-new-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"A new NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For my birthday I got parts for a new server\/NAS, complete up to a 1-TB-SSD. After adding some HDD&#8217;s that where not in use elsewhere, the hardware is like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intel J5005, 4 single thread cores at 2GHz, give or take<\/li><li>32GB of DDR4 memory<\/li><li>1 TB of SSD storage<\/li><li>11 TB of spinning storage, spread over<ul><li>6TB SMR<\/li><li>4TB SMR<\/li><li>1TB regular PMR<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>1GBit ethernet<\/li><li>1 PCIe 2x connection <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The total box should run at 5W or less when idle, with HDD&#8217;s powered spinned down. At boot, when the disks spin up, peak usage could hit 100W, while active use with spinning disks should cost about 20W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All is powered by a 90W power brick and a 120W PicoPSU; no software is installed yet, so actual measurements have to wait.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The server comes just in time: the current home server is running out of both  disk space and SATA ports. The NAS will have multiple roles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Provide space for photos and videos;<\/li><li>Provide a backup target for laptops;<\/li><li>Replace a host of ARM-powered Yunohosts<\/li><li>Provide reverse proxying for Yunohosts that will not get virtualized and Yunohosts that are in the household temporarily (while being installed or while waiting for an appointment with the host-household)<\/li><li>Domotica-related things (suse.AI, sensors, remote switching), VPN, firewall, the list goes on!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am somewhat nervous about running backups and web servers on the same hardware, but after playing with virtualization &#8216;on premise&#8217; and at hosting providers, I feel confident it is a viable combination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the NAS is a step up from the old one memory wise, virtualization should run fine. Still, 32GB is not a huge amount, so my first thoughts went to LXC and Docker. After diving into stories of others&#8217; installations, I found Proxmox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some caveats; the advanced options of the Debian installer are not available (option: install Debian, add Proxmox), being bound to the decisions the Proxmox team makes with regard to development of the platform and, unhelpful enough: root-login needs to be enabled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most things I read about Proxmox are positive. Management of storage space is flexible, LXC hosts and VM&#8217;s are easily managed and there is a large community. It goes without saying that the platform is Free\/Libre Open Source software. All in all, the benefits made me prepare an installation medium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not knowing exactly what I want, what I need and what the result will be in the long run (software maintenance, storage options), made the installation less than straightforward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpf_wrapper\"><a class=\"print_link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Print this entry<\/a><\/p><!-- .wpf_wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday I got parts for a new server\/NAS, complete up to a 1-TB-SSD. After adding some HDD&#8217;s that where not in use elsewhere, the hardware is like: Intel J5005, 4 single thread cores at 2GHz, give or take 32GB of DDR4 memory 1 TB of SSD storage 11 TB of spinning storage, spread &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/en\/2019\/10\/25\/a-new-nas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new NAS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"96","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeserver","category-nas","category-proxmox","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.osba.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}