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

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!

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