Ask HN: What type of personal NAS would you recommend?
My &#x27;storage solution&#x27; up to this point has been &#x27;random disks in a desktop tower&#x27; and I was doing some research just this morning for upgrading to a more complete local solution.<p>My use-cases: primary storage device for home lab, computer&#x2F;phone backup server for myself and extended family, media server, self-hosted web archive, general self-hosted services.<p>My preferences: I don&#x27;t like the direction that Synology is trending in (i.e. the same direction as Ubiquiti) &#x2F; I don&#x27;t like that it&#x27;s proprietary. I really like the idea of using ZFS. I don&#x27;t want to spend a ton of time designing building and debugging a custom system.<p>That leads me to the IX Systems Mini X [0], a 5+2-bay integrated system with FreeBSD-based TrueNAS OS (successor&#x2F;rename of FreeNAS). One of the X+ models comes with dual 10GbE which is pretty nice for future-proofing. So my current homelab plan is:<p><pre><code>    Mini X+: 8 core, 64 GB, 2x10GbE - $1600
    5x 6TB WD Red Plus (in zfs-raidz1 for 24TB net capacity) - $650
    1x 480GB Kingston DC1000B M.2 PCIE-3.0 enterprise SSD
       with power loss protection (PLP) as a SLOG&#x2F;write-cache - $130
    MikroTik RB5009UG+S+IN router-switch [1] with 1x10Gb SFP+, 1x2.5GbE, 7x1GbE - $185
    Encrypted backup from NAS to rsync.net using Borg [2][3], maybe raw ZFS snapshots for certain workloads (databases).

    Total: $2565
    Monthly: internet - $70 (1GB) - $100 (2GB), remote backup: $10 (initial) - $80 (half capacity)
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That&#x27;s my current plan anyways. Feedback welcome.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.truenas.com&#x2F;truenas-mini&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.truenas.com&#x2F;truenas-mini&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mikrotik.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;rb5009ug_s_in#fndtn-gallery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mikrotik.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;rb5009ug_s_in#fndtn-gallery</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.borgbackup.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.borgbackup.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27997856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27997856</a>