Building up a NAS

Ja, new photos are missing here. The reason is that I am currently trying to de-cloud my data.

I am currently in the process of migrating most of my data including photos towards “on-premise”. The current idea is to build up a small homelab consisting of these components:

• a custom-built Network Attached Storage (NAS)

  • running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM

  • OS itself running with on-board NVMe SSD using PCIe

  • attached to it just a bunch of disks (JBOD) for data, currently starting with a 2 TB NVMe in an USB 3enclosure

  • moderating software stack is OpenMediaVault

  • backups into the cloud (Germany) using Borgbackup

• another “app” server that utilises the data on the NAS (besides my computers)

  • running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM (still on SD card during prototyping)

  • container based (currently switching between Docker and Podman back and forth

  • running Immich etc.

All the stuff is set up using Ansible as far as I come. For monitoring, I am currently checking out Netdata - which looks very promising!

More on that in the future - and yess, new photos are on their way!

Here, just a quick photo of the working prototype: