The Essential Homelab Accessory: Why You Need a NAS Right Now

Discover the ultimate Homelab accessory for Engineers, Content Creators, and Tech Enthusiasts alike! In this video, we dive into the world of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and why they're essential for a modern Homelab setup. In this video we'll focus on the Synology NAS and I use it to run my Docker containers, take part in my Kubernetes Cluster and
Docker Compose file for my Homelab: github.com/devopsjourney1/hom...
My Setup below (affiliate links)
Synology DiskStation (I use DS723+):
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IronWolf 12TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD:
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Synology M.2 NVMe SSD:
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Synology RAM 4GB
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📘 Chapters:
0:00 About my Nas
1:20 Docker and Virtual Machine Manager
4:35 Remote Access with Tailscale
5:23 NAS Features: ActiveBackup, CloudSync, Drive, Snapshots
9:39 Synology NAS Hardware
12:26 Creating a VM in Synology Virtual Machine Manager
14:00 How I use ActiveBackup to backup my workstation
15:45 Setting up CloudSync to Sync my data to AWS S3
18:10 Tailscale (Remote Access VPN)
19:48 My Docker Setup Synology
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[@fvgoya]

By the way, yes, please show more about your home lab setup.

[@av1786]

I realize you are an expert , do you have a solution to have running email backups on Nas just as a reader resource to old mails. Thanks 👍

[@auto117666]

I love that the NAS does tiered storage. I am still waitibg for drive prices to drop even more before I commit to doing sometging like this.
By the way, about how much do you get charged for your S3 usage each month?

[@DevOpsJourney]

Yeah drive prices are really going down, especially NVMe and SSDs. I spend around $4.5 on S3 for about 200GB. Most of my data syncs to Google Drive (you can pick which directories sync to which cloud). Google probably has the cheapest data storage options if you aren't syncing a lot of data. You can get 2TB with google drive for 13.99 a month. one.google.com/storage

[@michaelventarola7100]

How much memory did you add for the VM you are running?

[@DevOpsJourney]

My VM has 2GB, although 1 would be fine. I upgraded my NAS from 2GB to 6GB so I can support multiple VMs and have enough for docker, plex etc.

[@anthonyrussano]

i setup truenas as a vm on my optiplex which has 4 sata ssd drives directly passed through via pcie

[@fvgoya]

But why not, for example, have a mini pc and 4 storages attached on?? I’m asking this because usually NAS storage box are very expansive. And a build NAS is way more flexível, specially for expansion such as more memory, better processor, more storages (HDD, SSD,etc)… What’s your thoughts about it? Thanks!!

[@anthonyrussano]

i heard k3s lost update support since suse took over

[@DevOpsJourney]

k3s still going strong!

[@jwv6340]

Do not see the point of buying one if u can make it yourself with linux way more flexible