Be aware that doing it like this, the traffic from the VPS to your home will be unencrypted.

The issue is that’s it’s too late… I already have my NAS. The only things I can optimize are the disks

Thanks, yes, I’m interested in the SSDs models!

Ok thanks!

Indeed, I haven’t thought about the W/TB. This is definitely something I’ll to consider, thanks!

With what I saw with me current HDDs I wouldn’t have though smaller HDD would be the most power efficient. And now I understand better why sometimes I read HDD can be more efficient than SSD.

Any brands/models you would recommend?

Thanks for reporting!

Thanks, this is really efficient. I now have good hopes that changing my PSU should bring me closer to this

This is amazing, thank you!

And now this confirms that my current PSU is terrible…

I planned to share it with my family. As I won’t be the only user, this is not ideal. Besides I run automatic backup and planned to also store them in the NAS. So again if it’s off half the time, this is not ideal.

Indeed, this seems to be the issue!

I’ve checked the PX-450 but it seems to be out of stock…

I’ll do more searches about PSU, thanks!

Thanks I’ll check this

Yes definitely. This is just that it was my first time assembling a PC. I had a bit of a hard time and I am not in a hurry to disassemble it 😅

That may change in a couple of days thought

I’m going to try to unplug these. But even if I remove 20W from the 2 HDDs, there are still 25W which seem a lot

I don’t know much about hardware. I used these suggestions: https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-nas-killer-6-0-ddr4-is-finally-cheap/13956

I built a NAS where I can put 6 HDDs, there are enough plugs on the PSU.

Do you think the PSU is the issue?

Thanks that would be cool. Also if you can tell me if this is a NUC or something larger.

I guess I’ll do this if I don’t find a way to reduce the power consumption

Unfortunately this is idling after boot. While booting it jumps to 70W and I haven’t seen it go below 45W idling…

I’m using an EVGA 500 W1

Thanks. So If I take 5W a disk, I may have 20W just from the disks.

There are still 25W remaining. For a low power CPU that looks like a lot 😕

I have checked but I haven’t seen anything about power. By any chances, do you know in what category it may be?

Yes this is where I first heard of mergerfs/SnapRAID. But I didn’t realize this guide wasn’t using any software on top of Proxmox. I’ll read again, thanks!

Thanks, I’ll check ZFS again!

How do you manage your shares?

I was comparing Proxmox and Unraid. I had ruled out TrueNAS because it only supports ZFS. I was wrong about the RAM for ZFS, but another issue is that it doesn’t support different disk sizes

Indeed, it wasn’t clear that it was how it worked. That seems better than the cache/mover system from Unraid.

Another point as to why I didn’t consider ZFS, is that it only works with disks having the same capacities. As I will be adding disks over time, I think I will be wasting disk space

Ok thanks.

Do you use anything to manage disk failure?

Thanks I wasn’t sure if this was a possibility

Oh ok I wasn’t sure about this. But I think TrueNAS only supports ZFS and this would be an issue on my system

Thanks, I’ve seen Incus have an online demo, this is nice, I’ll give it a try.

For BTRFS, if I understand correctly, I can have a similar result as mergerfs if I use SINGLE. But as RAID5/6 is unstable it seems I would still need snapraid, or am I missing something?

Don’t I need mergerfs and snapraid with BTRFS?

Also it’s not clear what LXD/Incus replaces? Is it Promox or Promox + OMV?

Ok, this is good to know!

On the N100, they say the max support is 16GB RAM. If you were looking for at least 32GB, it may not be an option anymore

Actually I wanted to have a NAS and another more powerful server. But this is because I thought NAS were some cheap basic servers… When I saw the price I thought I might as well have a single more powerful server doing NAS + transcoding. I haven’t made my mind up, I’ll check the Lenovo Tiny, thanks

Thanks, 30W while idling and 40W~ while in use seems really fine!

Indeed, this is something I need to take into account

Okay thanks, this is good to know!

I would have, but this is all about the power consumption. Getting an old PC, I’m afraid to be at least around 100W…

Thanks, as I said I’m bad with hardware, so I need to lookup what NVMe SSD actually are.

Can you tell me about the power consumption you get from your setup?

Thanks! I didn’t know about this website.

Edit: After checking it out. This is exactly what I was looking for!