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00:00:00 – 00:17:10
The video showcases the content creator's journey of building a budget-friendly DIY NAS system using mostly secondhand components sourced from platforms like Facebook Marketplace and eBay. The NAS setup involves upgrading the system with multiple drives, implementing RAID configurations, setting up iSCSI shares for additional storage, and optimizing network connections for improved performance. The creator emphasizes cost-effectiveness, DIY flexibility, and the efficient power consumption of the NAS system. While recognizing limitations like component reliability and hardware constraints, the speaker highlights the potential for system upgrades to enhance performance and capacity. Suggestions are made for future improvements and viewers are encouraged to explore other videos on building home servers.
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In this segment of the video, the content creator discusses their motivation for building a network attached storage (NAS) system using mostly used components to store footage and content for their channel. They highlight sourcing components from platforms like Facebook Marketplace and eBay at lower costs. The hardware mentioned includes an old Antec case with multiple drive bays, an HP motherboard with an Intel J29 CPU and 8GB of DDR3L memory, a Gigabyte 650W power supply, and a PCIe to SATA card for additional SATA ports due to motherboard limitations. The creator aims to determine if this budget-friendly DIY NAS build can deliver performance comparable to a store-bought solution.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the creator discusses upgrading the system with four drives using a PCIe 2.0 motherboard limiting to three drives due to bandwidth issues. Additionally, a 2.5 gigabit network adapter is added for faster network speeds. The creator received four Seagate IronWolf 4TB drives from Aces Store. A boot drive mix-up occurred, erroneously using a single USB stick for TrueNAS, which they do not recommend. For assembly, the case was cleaned using an air compressor and alcohol before installing the motherboard and power supply.
00:06:00
In this segment of the video, the narrator demonstrates the installation process for various components in a NAS setup. They install a PCIe to SATA card, network card, and hard drives into the system. The narrator emphasizes cable management, routing power cables to the motherboard and drives, and organizing SATA cables. They then proceed to install TrueNAS Scale, set up a RAID configuration (RAID Z), create a user, establish SMB sharing, and configure access control for the NAS. The segment concludes with the narrator ensuring proper data protection settings and scheduling scrub tasks for the NAS setup.
00:09:00
In this segment of the video, the creator demonstrates setting up an iSCSI share on a NAS to use as additional storage for editing projects. They configure a Z volume with 750 gigabytes of storage as sparse, then set up the iSCSI share. After resolving an issue with the iSCSI service, they connect to the iSCSI target in Windows and format the drive using NTFS. The creator then optimizes their network connection by directly connecting a 2.5 gigabit NIC to a USB adapter on their Windows machine, adjusting the IPv4 settings for both the NIC and the NAS. Finally, they test the performance, achieving write speeds of about 150 megabytes per second and over 200 megabytes per second when transferring project files.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses setting up an iSCSI drive on a DIY NAS system with solid improvements in performance, especially in random reads and writes. They also mention the benefits of using iSCSI and Trunas for capacity and redundancy. The power consumption of the NAS is highlighted, being efficient at around 38-45 watts. While acknowledging potential issues like reliability, the speaker mentions that replacing failed components, like a failed SATA to PCIe card, was manageable without data loss. The size of the build is noted as a limitation for compact spaces, and there are constraints with the motherboard configuration, such as a limit of 8 gigabytes of RAM.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the potential for improved performance by adding more memory to a Truenas setup. They highlight the limitations of the current setup, such as only having two SATA 2.0 ports, and suggest that upgrading the motherboard could be beneficial. The speaker emphasizes the flexibility of the system for upgrades and the cost-effectiveness of DIY compared to buying pre-built NAS solutions. They also mention plans for future upgrades and recommend checking out their other videos on building home servers.