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452 points amacbride | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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noisy_boy ◴[29 Aug 25 10:38 UTC] No.45062379[source]▶
For someone very comfortable with desktop Linux and NAS curious without much hardware skills, are there any good guides to get started? I use a HDD enclosure with two 2TB disks shoved in but the content availability is dependent on my laptop being on. I would rather have JellyFin running on my NAS/media server so that we can watch stuff on TV even when the laptop is off. Would be good to be able to access the network file system over NFS using WiFi to avoid being tethered to the desk.
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1. poulpy123 ◴[29 Aug 25 10:57 UTC] No.45062489[source]▶
Since you're comfortable with linux, you really don't need a tutorial. Just buy a cheap minipc or maybe a raspberry if you fancy it, install the distribution of your choice or something more complete like OMV7, plug your enclosure and you're done
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2. noisy_boy ◴[30 Aug 25 03:24 UTC] No.45071652[source]▶
That could work. The only thing I have noticed with my laptop+ enclosure based setup is that the disks go to "sleep", probably due to power management, so if it has been a while since I accessed the contents, I need to click on the mount point in the explorer window for the disks to start spinning and the files to be available again. I don't want to deal with that so I was thinking that a box with slots for multiple internal disks will not have such issues. I can try to tinker with USB power settings but that could be a time sink/brittle solution.