I’m looking for suggestions. I have a rack in my office with up to 4U space available. I’m looking to set up a backup and storage solution to try and break free from services such as dropbox & google drive. I’d also love to run a few other things like homeassistant and potentially even Klipper for my 3d printer. I’d also like it to be reasonably quiet if possible.
So what would you recommend? I could get something like a dell poweredge and add HDDs + replace the fans with noctua to keep the noise down or go with a dedicated NAS like synology. Any other recommendations?
The important thing I would look at is the idle power, because most of the time it will just sit the mre and wait for you to connect.
Dedicated NAS hardware is quite good with that, but there are nice DIY mini servers which are also very low power.
I do recommend TureNAS for this, it has been fun for me to work with and i started with 0 background or experience.
Thanks for the recommendation!