He Needs a NAS

0:00 I love my setup.

0:01 My top-tier gaming PC not only brute

0:03 forces its way through modern game optimization,

0:05 but it handles my Plex streaming.

0:07 Your what?

0:09 I mean, what?

0:09 I've got a great CPU with lots of cores, and the GPU is great at transcoding.

0:16 [sighs] Yes.

0:17 He's not wrong.

0:19 And if you've only got one PC,

0:21 combining these functions is perfectly reasonable.

0:24 But, if you're looking to step up your reliability,

0:27 not to mention the safety of your data storage,

0:30 a dedicated NAS, or network attached storage server, is the way to go.

0:35 And it costs less than you might think.

0:38 Not at the price I bought my hard drives at.

0:40 I may have splurged a bit elsewhere, too.

0:43 Yeah, well, look, I can't do anything about

0:45 the way that you dive into a new hobby.

0:46 But, you don't have to do things his way,

0:50 because everything Plouffe wants to accomplish today,

0:52 sharing Plex with family and friends,

0:54 off-site buddy backup, not to mention good old-fashioned local file share,

0:58 can be accomplished on basic or even second-hand hardware.

1:02 And if you're not any good at this stuff, that's okay, because I'm not either.

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1:28 Here's what I've got: a computer in the living room, a computer in my office,

1:32 and me, a lazy pile of trash who doesn't want to get up once I've sat down.

1:36 I could use Google Drive or OneDrive

1:39 to share all of my documents across my computers,

1:41 but I hate the idea of sending things to the cloud

1:44 when [music] all of my PCs could just be connected locally.

1:47 Also, both of those companies, Google and Microsoft,

1:50 they just kind of keep getting worse,

1:52 [music] to the point where I might even be running

1:54 Linux on my main gaming PC in another year or two.

1:56 The plan is [music] to pop a NAS down under my desk here.

2:01 It'll act as a central repository,

2:03 and if someone wants to access my Plex account while I'm gaming,

2:07 it won't cost me any frames.

2:08 I am well aware that I could just buy an off-the-shelf box.

2:11 UGREEN in particular has some really compelling options.

2:14 But, as soon as I started looking at anything with six hard drive bays or more,

2:18 I ran into the starting at monster.

2:21 Also, since I want this to be more than just a NAS,

2:23 and I'm not sure yet of all the things I want it to do in the future,

2:26 a custom upgradeable build feels like the right choice.

2:30 It's also just more fun to pick exactly what I want,

2:32 starting with the CPU, an Intel Core i3 12100.

2:36 And I'll tell you all about it while I transfer all of the data

2:39 from my two 8-TB drives that I'm going to be upgrading from today.

2:43 This ended up being an even better choice than I initially expected.

2:47 With GPU prices being what they are,

2:49 I asked the lab to run some encoding tests to see if I can get away without one.

2:53 And it turns out the 12100 is great when it comes to direct play,

2:57 software encoding, and can even use Quick Sync

3:00 on the integrated GPU for great power efficiency.

3:03 Also, unlike AMD's 5800G or the spare GTX 1660 Ti I would have used,

3:09 the Intel chip has native AV1 support if that ever ends up actually mattering.

3:15 Guess I get to save some power,

3:17 which is one of the reasons I spent a little more in the first place.

3:19 There are much older and much cheaper

3:22 CPUs that would work fine for basic storage,

3:25 but that would come at the expense of some efficiency.

3:28 Plus, you know, who knows what I want to actually do with this thing,

3:30 so I might as well buy modern-ish hardware.

3:33 Let's check out the motherboard.

3:35 I chose the ASUS Prime B760M-A D4.

3:39 It's a little overkill, but it's got 2 and 1/2 gig LAN,

3:43 decent IO, and tons of expansion slots in an mATX form factor.

3:48 And since it's a couple of generations old, it's not that expensive.

3:52 Now, you might be saying, "Plouffe, you fool!

3:54 That board only has four SATA ports." But, don't worry.

3:57 I've got a surprise tool that I'll show you later.

3:59 Thanks, ASUS, for sending this guy over.

4:01 For memory, Work agreed to give me some on the condition

4:04 that I dig for our worst kit of DDR4.

4:07 But, with how things are out there, I'm not complaining.

4:10 Capacity is more important than speed for what I'm doing anyway,

4:13 especially if I want to run a virtual machine or two.

4:16 And if memory ever does come down in price,

4:19 I can always upgrade later thanks to my four DIMM slots.

4:23 What I don't have that luxury for is storage.

4:26 While I was planning this project, the humble hard drive got hit by the same

4:30 shortage that has rocked memory and SSDs around the world.

4:35 And it's at the point now where it's not even a question of price.

4:38 Many drives are just plumb out of stock.

4:40 So, on top of the couple of 8-TB I picked up from Weiler about a year ago,

4:44 I had to ask my brother to buy me four 8-TB IronWolf CMR

4:48 NAS drives all the way over in Edmonton for about 1,200 Canadian dollars.

4:53 Now, this is another area where you could definitely save some money.

4:56 Unless you have multiple heavy users working off of your NAS,

4:59 you probably don't need CMR or conventional magnetic recording.

5:03 The alternative is SMR or shingled magnetic recording,

5:06 which is cheaper and uses less

5:08 power while still offering reasonable read speeds.

5:11 The only downside is that it suffers during intensive write operations,

5:16 which those won't come up for me unless I ever need

5:19 to rebuild the data on my array in the event of a failure.

5:22 Please don't fail me, hard drives.

5:24 Please.

5:26 The plan was to tell you guys all about the stuff while I install the sleds,

5:30 and then I realized that these don't have sleds.

5:33 They just have little rubber stoppers that we're going to put on there,

5:37 and then they've got these nice front handles that you put on the front.

5:41 So, if you haven't guessed it, the case is a Jonsbo case,

5:44 which we'll get to in a bit.

5:45 If I was really smart, what I could have done was waited a week

5:48 or two before sticker bombing my hard drives.

5:50 Most failures occur at the very beginning of life or near the end.

5:55 But, let's face it, I wasn't going to put

5:57 together a system that wasn't covered in stickers.

6:00 I'll live with my choice.

6:01 And if I have to, I'll rip the stickers off and RMA the drives.

6:04 By the way, great tool for building a computer, LTT screwdriver, lttstore.com.

6:10 For my OS drive, I was lucky enough

6:12 to have a random 500 gig WD Blue kicking around.

6:15 I took one look at SSD pricing on Newegg and decided to use it.

6:19 If it dies, it dies.

6:22 It won't be holding any of my precious Linux ISOs anyway.

6:26 I also have a 1-TB Samsung 980 Pro that I was planning to use as a cache,

6:30 but Linus told me that if I end up going with TrueNAS or Hex-OS,

6:34 I may not have enough system memory to properly take advantage of L2ARC.

6:39 He recommended either using it to store virtual machines

6:41 or to simply sell it and recoup some of my project budget,

6:44 cuz yeah, these hard drives cost a pretty penny.

6:47 Now, it's time to answer the question of how I'm

6:49 going to hook up all these drives to this little motherboard.

6:51 Well, [music] the case does have a nice backplane,

6:54 but to connect all of that, we're going to use an HBA, or host bus adapter card.

6:58 The go-to brand for best reliability is LSI,

7:01 and [music] you can get them pretty much anywhere.

7:03 Just be cautious of counterfeits and make sure

7:04 you get one that explicitly supports IT mode.

7:08 That way you can avoid flashing the card's firmware.

7:10 With this installed,

7:11 one of my unused PCIe slots turns into eight SAS [music] ports,

7:15 which can be used for either SAS or SATA drives.

7:18 And just what case can store all of these hard drives?

7:21 Only the Jonsbo N1 5.

7:24 Okay, many others could.

7:26 Hell, two strips of acrylic could hold them all, but this is what I chose.

7:30 It's massive, but I wanted it for a few reasons.

7:34 First and foremost, it's beautiful, and it really vibes with my space.

7:38 Second, it supports up to 12 3 and 1/2-in drives,

7:42 getting me a ton of room to grow into my new data hoarding obsession.

7:46 And third, cable management is going to be a breeze.

7:50 Oh, and I like that it has USB-C on the front.

7:52 That's great if I ever need to ingest bulk data a little faster in the future.

7:55 Since we're not sucking back much power without a dedicated GPU,

7:58 I went with a little 500-W SFX power supply from Silverstone.

8:01 I decided on this and asked Silverstone to send

8:05 it over before choosing the Jonsbo N1 5.

8:08 Could have used a regular-size unit, but this one will fit just fine.

8:12 Besides, you know, if you're building a NAS at home,

8:13 you're probably building it in an SFF case,

8:15 and so you'll need something small like this.

8:18 But, before I install the power supply, my copy's done.

8:21 So, I'm going to pop these last two drives in first.

8:23 [music] Minor issue, the adapter plate that came with the Silverstone

8:34 power supply got this lip on it, and it makes our screws sit really proud.

8:38 And flipping it over just looks wrong.

8:42 And also, it's doesn't look like that's supposed to happen that way.

8:44 So, luckily, I work somewhere that has

8:46 extra power supplies kind of just lying around.

8:49 That means I grabbed this MAG A550BN 550-W from MSI,

8:54 and I'm going to use this today.

8:56 Luckily, this supports ATX power supplies, so I'm sorry, Silverstone.

9:00 Thanks for sending it.

9:01 I'm sure it's a great unit.

9:02 Let's pop this in.

9:04 [music] Moment of truth, it's all put together.

9:11 Let's see if I did anything wrong.

9:13 The monitor detects something.

9:20 [gasps] 1 2 3 4 5 6 drives.

9:22 And then, where is my SSD SSD?

9:27 The system works.

9:29 All right.

9:29 Overall, I feel pretty good about this build.

9:31 Yeah, it was almost $2,000, not counting my two old 8-TB drives,

9:36 which is a lot of money.

9:38 But, most of that budget went to the storage, which,

9:41 one way or another, I was going to pay [music] for anyway.

9:44 Have you looked at the cost of cloud storage these days?

9:46 And that's only going to go up as drives get more and more scarce.

9:49 At least I've kind of locked in on my pricing.

9:51 [music] But, this was the easy part.

9:53 I know how to build a computer.

9:54 I I of do it for a living.

9:57 [music] The hard part is the software element of turning a computer into a NAS.

10:01 The way I see it, I've got three options: TrueNAS, Unraid, or Hex OS.

10:06 TrueNAS seems to be the best bet for power users,

10:09 but [music] I don't really know if that's me.

10:11 Unraid is pretty flexible in how you utilize your storage.

10:14 Pretty sure you can also just chuck in kind

10:15 of whatever size drives you want and it'll figure it out.

10:18 But, Linus really recommends Hex OS.

10:20 And because I was able to get a license because I work where I work,

10:25 it was kind of a no-brainer.

10:26 So, I've got my Hex OS media right here.

10:28 We're going to try to install it.

10:30 I've never done this before.

10:31 We'll see how it goes.

10:33 I went to Hex OS's website,

10:35 followed their instructions to flash my thumb drive with some media.

10:39 This should be easy.

10:40 That's the reason I picked Hex OS.

10:41 So, I'm really hoping it is.

10:43 I'm going to hit save and exit here, and away we go.

10:45 All right, we're going to select our USB partition two for our boot device.

10:49 Start Hex OS installation.

10:52 All right.

10:53 It's doing something.

10:55 Uh install, shell, reboot, shutdown.

10:58 I want to install or upgrade.

11:00 Okay, install Hex OS to a drive.

11:02 If desired, select multiple drives to provide redundancy.

11:04 Hex OS installation drive are not available for use in storage pools.

11:08 That's fine.

11:09 Okay, so I'm just picking which ones to select and then pressing space bar.

11:13 Oh, pressing space bar to select.

11:14 So, not big backup.

11:16 That's going to get wiped.

11:17 Um I want this 500 gig WD.

11:20 This will erase all partitions and data on SDH.

11:23 That is fine.

11:24 Proceed.

11:24 Yes.

11:26 Enter your TrueNAS admin user password.

11:28 Root password login will be disabled.

11:30 Extracting.

11:32 Extracting.

11:33 Creating data set.

11:34 Creating boot pool.

11:35 The Hex OS installation on SDH succeeded.

11:39 Please reboot and remove the installation media.

11:41 That should be all it takes to install.

11:44 Now, I should have to set up my actual storage pools and whatnot.

11:48 Let's do it.

11:49 Let's get started.

11:50 We'll guide you through setting up your new server.

11:51 All right, cool.

11:52 Looking for servers.

11:54 If you recently installed Hex OS,

11:55 it should automatically be detected when this device is on the same network.

11:59 And then if this doesn't work, I'll hit the having problems button.

12:03 Okay, we gave looking for servers a few

12:05 minutes here and it's not finding anything.

12:06 This is the sort of thing that normally

12:08 it'll detect it within like 10 to 30 seconds.

12:10 We give it an extra few minutes, you know, just in case.

12:13 Uh but I'm going to click having problems.

12:15 Troubleshooting steps.

12:16 Make sure that the server is running and has an internet connection.

12:19 Check.

12:19 Ensure the device you're using is connected to the same local network.

12:22 It should be.

12:23 Check that mDNS, multicast is enabled and functioning

12:27 correctly on both devices for proper discovery.

12:29 If the above are correct, then try restarting the server.

12:31 If you have a custom network configuration, try entering the IP manually.

12:35 Let's enter the IP manually because if I was at home,

12:39 I'd probably try just restarting it,

12:40 but we have a pretty different network than like

12:43 what my home network is going to be like.

12:45 Try to connect.

12:46 Looking for servers.

12:48 A new server is detected.

12:49 That's great and it matches my IP.

12:51 Perfect.

12:52 So, I'm going to claim that.

12:53 I'm going to enter my admin password.

12:55 Claim server error.

12:56 You do not have any licenses available.

12:58 Elijah.

12:59 All right, day two.

13:00 Elijah got my code from Hex OS squared away

13:03 and I should just be able to hit get started here.

13:05 And this time it should work.

13:06 Zero SSDs of six and six HDDs.

13:09 Yep, that's correct.

13:10 I don't know why that's a warning.

13:12 This drive has existing Oh, very cool.

13:14 Okay, so luckily I backed up all of my data,

13:17 but I like that it's telling me that two of my hard drives actually

13:19 have data on them and it lets you know they're going to be wiped.

13:22 Storage pools.

13:23 40 terabyte usable storage.

13:25 It automatically configured to the RAID Z1 or RAID 5.

13:28 I'm not sure which, but uh 40 terabyte, one drive can fail.

13:32 Yeah, that sounds good to me.

13:33 Almost done.

13:34 We've collected everything we need to get your server up and running.

13:36 To make it easier to find and identify your server,

13:38 you should also give it a name.

13:40 You know, most of ours are named after little municipalities around town.

13:43 I'm going to name mine after where I'm from, Yellowknife.

13:45 So, let's do that.

13:46 Uh and yes, this is going to wipe it.

13:48 Finish setup.

13:49 Initializing.

13:50 Preparing drives.

13:52 Welcome to Hex OS.

13:53 Here are some shortcuts.

13:54 Configure storage.

13:55 Configure users.

13:56 Add folders.

13:56 Install your first app.

13:58 I'm on the dashboard.

13:59 Uh everything seems to be running normally.

14:01 I've installed Plex.

14:02 Once I take this home, I'll actually sign into Plex and get all that set up.

14:05 Uh but that happens a little later.

14:07 I just want to make sure everything's, you know, running properly.

14:09 My RAM is working.

14:11 My hard drive pool has got 38.19 TB of uh storage available.

14:18 Uh folders.

14:19 Okay, so the other thing that I'm really

14:21 worried about because networking is not my strong suit.

14:25 Permissions.

14:26 I hate figuring out permissions in Windows.

14:29 It is terrible.

14:30 I am terrified of trying to do that in Linux without running into issues.

14:35 A huge part of why I'm going with Hex OS, that I've said multiple times,

14:38 is this should be brain dead easy and I should just be

14:41 able to make folders and assign users and we'll see if that works.

14:46 So, the next step is taking this home,

14:48 making sure it connects on my local network, and getting Plex installed.

14:51 So, let's go.

14:53 All right.

14:53 It's been 1 week since you got a NAS.

14:57 How's it going?

14:58 Pretty good so far.

15:00 The whole experience was uh a little easier than I expected,

15:03 but also much harder at the same time.

15:06 Okay.

15:07 Now, before we get any further into that, what operating system did

15:11 you end up going with that was easier and harder than expected?

15:14 I ended up going with Hex OS.

15:16 Really?

15:17 Cuz I was going to say like it wasn't that long ago.

15:19 Investment disclosure, I'm an investor in the company that makes Hex OS.

15:23 It wasn't that long ago that we and everyone

15:25 else under the sun recommended Unraid [music] for its simplicity.

15:28 I know.

15:29 And even even then watching, cuz I watched a bunch of videos on installing

15:32 and how to do initial setup and everything,

15:34 TrueNAS was definitely like, "No, I don't want to do that."

15:38 [laughter] And Unraid was definitely the more simple looking option.

15:41 But then I watched a few Hex OS videos and it's about 1.0 now.

15:45 Almost.

15:46 Almost.

15:46 So, I figured, "Okay, fine." Plus, I get the key.

15:49 Right.

15:50 Okay.

15:50 So, I didn't pay for it, which makes a massive difference.

15:53 [music] Um but I really did go with that route

15:56 just because I thought it would be the easiest.

15:58 Well, Unraid's a paid option, too.

16:00 Yeah.

16:01 So, they're both paid either way.

16:02 Yeah.

16:02 Hex OS still just seemed the easiest and it kind of was.

16:05 What wasn't easy?

16:06 Cuz I already know a lot of answers to that question.

16:10 Okay, so the install went fine.

16:12 I took it home.

16:13 It ran into issues exactly where I thought it would.

16:15 Windows file sharing stuff.

16:17 Really?

16:17 Yeah.

16:18 That's one part of my Hex OS NAS at home that does work perfectly.

16:22 The funny thing is, I've got two main desktops that I'm hooking up to it, right?

16:26 Yeah.

16:26 My living room PC Yeah.

16:28 that I went to do second, it was fine.

16:30 [music] Literally just logged in with the credentials, no problem at all.

16:33 My desktop PC, the one I wanted to do first,

16:36 was an absolute nightmare [laughter] to the point where I

16:39 spent like an hour or so troubleshooting and I got

16:43 to a point where everything I was looking at was

16:45 telling me to like buy Windows 11 Pro and enable stuff.

16:48 And I knew that was wrong.

16:50 What?

16:50 I knew that was wrong.

16:51 I knew that was wrong.

16:52 No.

16:52 No, no, no.

16:52 I knew that was wrong.

16:53 Okay.

16:54 So, I enabled SMB protocols.

16:56 All my private network uh stuff was working fine.

16:59 Everything was seeing everything.

17:00 Yeah.

17:01 So, I could see the machine on my network, but I couldn't access any folders.

17:05 I couldn't do anything with it.

17:06 Do you want to know what happened?

17:08 Had to be Windows credential manager.

17:09 Pancratz went there first.

17:11 We had to open PowerShell and he had

17:13 to change uh SMB client configuration setting requires security signature.

17:18 It was set to true.

17:19 We had to set that to false.

17:21 Why was that set to true?

17:22 I have no idea.

17:23 This isn't even a pretty fresh Windows 11 install.

17:26 That's so weird.

17:27 I reset my computer like 6 months ago or so.

17:29 So, it's not even an issue with your NAS.

17:31 No.

17:32 This was an issue with your desktop.

17:36 Yes.

17:36 Why is SMB still like this, Microsoft?

17:39 One in a million chance?

17:41 You're the guy.

17:45 [laughter] With it working.

17:45 Yes.

17:46 What's the first thing you did?

17:47 I started backing everything up, which took a while.

17:49 It was like 8 terabytes worth of data, but it was awesome.

17:53 Like I just I set the transfer going and I didn't even worry about it.

17:56 require security signature anymore.

17:58 So, it's all good.

18:01 [laughter] I've got Tailscale set up and running now.

18:02 I just finished that as well.

18:04 Want to explain what Tailscale is for people who are not in the know?

18:07 Tailscale is basically a way to SSH into your machine

18:11 and add uh virtual networking to uh other users.

18:14 So, that like if my cousin wants to go on to my NAS, I give him my Well,

18:18 he has his own Tailscale and then he

18:19 logs in and through my invite and gets access.

18:22 And you can do that without opening up ports.

18:24 Indeed.

18:25 Traditional way that you would allow someone else

18:27 to access a resource that's on your internal network.

18:30 Yeah, it's much safer.

18:31 But the funny thing is,

18:32 what really has been enjoyable about this whole experience

18:35 is I feel like I'm learning stuff about computers again.

18:37 Oh, that's cool.

18:37 Yeah.

18:38 Like I actually like Oh, networking's a whole new Pandora's Box, though.

18:41 I'm well aware and it was a terrifying one for the longest time.

18:44 But now that I have like my own I mean, it's not really a home lab,

18:47 but now that I kind of have my own little home lab,

18:48 I'm like, "Oh yeah, I'll try that." Like whatever.

18:50 I'll set this up and dig through troubleshooting guides and spend

18:53 a bunch of time doing it and it's enjoyable cuz everything works.

18:57 And if it breaks, it's not the end of the world

18:59 cuz I know how to set it up again.

19:01 With that said, there's a big difference between, "Yeah,

19:03 this is a pretty good experience for me and I enjoy working on it." And

19:08 "This is something I would recommend to my family

19:10 and friends or my parents." Where are we at right now?

19:14 If everything had gone as smoothly as it was supposed to It's a big if.

19:18 100% it is.

19:19 I would be okay with helping my dad or someone else who's less

19:24 tech literate set this up in their home remotely with me being remote.

19:28 The setup and everything was really simple.

19:31 Yeah.

19:31 The UI is good.

19:32 It's really easy to use and navigate.

19:35 But as soon as they get into some kind of error [laughter]

19:38 that the documentation isn't going to cover, like what I encountered, like sure,

19:41 I know how to fix that now going forward and so

19:43 that's something that's added to my own

19:45 troubleshooting repertoire, but like Yeah.

19:48 I wouldn't expect them to do

19:49 this on their own assuming there's something that goes wrong.

19:54 If the process is perfect or like perfecter than it is now, yes,

19:59 I think this is something even my sister or my dad could do.

20:02 Now that that's all sorted,

20:03 it's fine and it works great and like I'm just doing whatever I want.

20:07 The flexibility overall of everything has been [music] so nice.

20:11 Yeah, like I just you know I make sure

20:13 that whatever I'm working on is on my NAS instead

20:16 of on my desktop locally and then I can

20:18 just move to the couch and open the file there.

20:21 And then oh I'm halfway done and now I want

20:23 to sit at my desk with like music playing or something, I just go over there.

20:26 And you're on Tailscale.

20:28 So if you wanted to go to a cafe and work on it there, boom.

20:32 It's pretty cool and you never worry about okay,

20:36 I'm in the middle of this draft and coffee spills on my laptop,

20:40 it's gone or I'm taking all of this personal information

20:44 and I'm synchronizing it with some corporate cloud service somewhere.

20:48 You own your freaking data.

20:50 Yeah, that's the bottom line with a NAS.

20:52 Which is a huge deal to me.

20:54 Is it more work than subscribing to you know Google One?

20:59 I mean yeah, it's more work, yeah,

21:01 but like in the longer time you can pay yourself to do that work

21:04 in the money that you will eventually save

21:07 not subscribing to someone's service because it's just math.

21:11 Eventually if you're going to use that storage,

21:14 eventually you must pay for those hard drives.

21:17 100% whether you buy them and put them in your home or whether

21:20 you pay for Google to put them in a data center somewhere.

21:23 And now I've got all my digital photos backed up somewhere safe.

21:26 I've got other files like everything.

21:28 With that said, a single NAS offers redundancy

21:32 but is not in and of itself a backup.

21:34 So the next level would be that I've talked to the priority

21:39 for me as kind of an activist investor that they implement buddy backup.

21:44 Yeah, and so that's intended to be

21:46 a feature where for no additional subscription fee,

21:49 you and a buddy like me and Plouffe could be like okay, here.

21:53 I bought an 8 terabyte drive, here you go buddy.

21:56 You buy an 8 terabyte drive, you give it to me, here you go buddy.

21:59 We put those into our NASes, we now have some extra space and we can

22:02 set aside an encrypted folder that can automatically synchronize.

22:06 But yeah, right now it's just I feel like I

22:09 can breathe easy knowing that everything's backed up and like yeah,

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