A NAS and media server plan that matters for Mac mini owners
The goal is to build a NAS and that can eventually hold 8 SATA drives for a very large storage pool. The only fixed parts are the and the case, because those are already owned. The longer-term plan adds an SFP+ 10GbE card and an RTX 3070 Ti .
The would be used later for AI experiments and game servers. Storage would use the ZFS file system, starting with RAID 1 or RAID 5 and moving to RAID 6 once there are enough drives. The choice is still open: either run TrueNAS directly on the machine, or run Proxmox first and put TrueNAS inside a .
Planned apps include Jellyfin, Immich, Wazuh, and Calibre for media, photos, security monitoring, and ebooks. The overall aim is to buy more hardware than needed today so the server has room to grow.
Key points
- The plan is a large NAS and with room for 8 SATA drives.
- Future upgrades include SFP+ 10GbE networking and an RTX 3070 Ti .
- Storage would use ZFS, starting with RAID 1 or RAID 5 and later moving to RAID 6.
- The main setup question is TrueNAS directly on the hardware versus TrueNAS inside a Proxmox .
- Planned services include Jellyfin, Immich, Wazuh, and Calibre.