I’m not sure why, but it seems like TrueNAS in a VM is not recommended (I saw a thread on their forum)… I also wanted the ability to add more drives later on, so I’ve gone with UnRAID and even though it’s only been a few weeks, it seems pretty functional and I’m glad I paid the licensing fee. I am trying to do Proxmox and OPNsense on one of those fanless N305 boxes and am getting very confused!

Hey of course, sorry for the delay, work has been crazy! I put this together from eBay and Newegg, I’ve installed UnRAID and am trying to get everything setup, moving Dockers from the tiny Lenovo to this, and replacing my Synology DS920+ eventually. The UnRAID forums are extremely helpful!

CPU: Xeon E-2324G (eBay) Motherboard: Supermicro X12STH-F (Newegg) RAM: 4x 32gb NEMIX RAM MEM-DR432MD-EU32 CPU cooler: Supermicro SNK-P0074AP4 (Supermicro) Case: CSE-826BE1C-R920LPB (eBay) PSU: included in case HBA: Supermicro AOC-S3008l-L8E (eBay) NVMe: HP EX900 512gb (Newegg) SFP NIC: X520-DA2 (eBay) HDD: combination of 8 10TB hard drives - Seagate Exos ST10000NM0226 or HGST UltraStar 0B42258 (2 parity drives)

Idk if this will help, but there are plenty of SFF systems on eBay, but I’d just be careful about what you want… I thought those looked good and bought a Lenovo but then wanted 10Gb Ethernet for a NAS and now I’m putting together a 2U rack server! Not to say you’ll do the 180 I did, but just keep future expansion in mind…

I really like #2… I’ve tried to wean myself off Amazon and it does cost more, but Jeff doesn’t need any more money!!

Also just switched to Cloudflare (used to be google domains)… since they run half the internet, they probably won’t be going anywhere anytime soon? Feels like every service gets sold/acquired and I have to change everything over every few years and I’m getting tired hahaha… also their DNS changes update basically instantly and are easy to do for this newbie!

I haven’t tried it yet and it depends on an outside service, but maybe https://morss.it/ can help?