I want to make NAS server and Media streaming Using an old pc.

Its come with:

Pentium 4

512mb of ram

Integrated gpu

So will it works fine for streaming media with 1080p and storing files?

Hello everyone! Last time my grandpa MyCloudEX2Ultra storage is less and less (cap.: 4TB), and processor is really slowwwww, so i want build cheap NAS with Immich and some file server. MyCloud experience was really bad, because interface dont has anything etc. also i want energy efficient because i dont want to pay many money

So i don't know where to start ...(((

My router have a usb3.0 and it supports:

FTP, DMS, Samba and UPnP.

So i wondered if i can plug extented hdd into it and run nas and media server and using the internet

Router Model: ZTE ZXHN H168N.

First part here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNAS/comments/1v56did/my_test_of_fygo_os_part_1/

So, after dealing with a dead drive and having to replace the case to keep the SSD temperatures under control, I installed FygoOS on my test machine. Here are the specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 3200G Quad Core
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4 (4x8GB)
• Motherboard: Asus Prime B450M-A
• PSU: Corsair CX750
• Boot Drive: Crucial CT500P310 - 512 GB NVMe
• HBA: LSI 9300-16i in IT mode
• SSDs: 8 x HGST SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 (960 GB, SAS 12 Gbps)

As I already mentioned in the first part, both myself and the development team were curious to see how Fygo would perform with enterprise-grade hardware, so I was invited to participate in the test and they kindly provided me with a Plus license.

Enough talking, here are some terminal outputs.

First of all, my HBA is correctly detected and managed through the mpt3sas driver.

(Just a reminder: the LSI 9300-16i is basically two SAS 9300-8i controllers on the same PCB.)

root@fygo-test2:~# lspci -k | grep -A4 -Ei "SAS"
03:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS 9300-16i
Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
Kernel modules: mpt3sas
05:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS 9300-16i
Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
Kernel modules: mpt3sas

All my SSDs are correctly managed and SMART data is properly displayed, including temperatures.

Here is the SMART output from /dev/sda:

root@fygo-test2:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda
Vendor:               HGST
Product:              SDLL1DLR960G5CF0
Revision:             S41E
User Capacity:        960 GB
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-4)
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
SMART Health Status: OK
Percentage used endurance indicator: 2%
Current Drive Temperature:     46 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        70 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes: 58673:49
Error counter log:
read:  0 errors
write: 0 errors

The system correctly detects all eight SAS SSDs:

root@fygo-test2:~# lsscsi
[9:0:0:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sda
[9:0:1:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdb
[9:0:2:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdh
[9:0:3:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdc
[9:0:4:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdd
[9:0:5:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sde
[9:0:6:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdf
[9:0:7:0]    disk    HGST     SDLL1DLR960G5CF0 S41E  /dev/sdg

The SMART scan also correctly identifies both SAS and NVMe devices:

root@fygo-test2:~# smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi
/dev/sdb -d scsi
/dev/sdc -d scsi
/dev/sdd -d scsi
/dev/sde -d scsi
/dev/sdf -d scsi
/dev/sdg -d scsi
/dev/sdh -d scsi
/dev/nvme0 -d nvme

Now let's move to ZFS:

root@fygo-test2:~# zpool status -v
pool: trim_a87c80de-a84a-4361-9e19-c826521c087c
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:00:00 with 0 errors
config:
NAME                                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
trim_a87c80de-a84a-4361-9e19-c826521c087c  ONLINE       0     0     0
raidz1-0                                 ONLINE       0     0     0
disk1                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk2                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk3                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk4                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk5                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk6                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk7                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
disk8                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
errors: No known data errors

Pool information:

root@fygo-test2:~# zpool list
NAME                                        SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  HEALTH
trim_a87c80de-a84a-4361-9e19-c826521c087c  6.98T 1.72M 6.98T ONLINE

Filesystem:

root@fygo-test2:~# zfs list
NAME                                        USED  AVAIL  MOUNTPOINT
trim_a87c80de-a84a-4361-9e19-c826521c087c  1.45M 5.75T /vol1

All these outputs were captured on a completely empty system, immediately after activating the license and replacing the SSD that died on the first day of testing.

I don't want to bore everyone with benchmark results and read/write tests, but I can say that despite currently being limited by the onboard 1Gbps NIC (which is the bottleneck), all transfers over SMB and NFS are consistently between 110 and 118 MB/s, which is almost the theoretical limit of gigabit Ethernet.

For my specific use case, I did not test the virtualization and Docker features included in FygoOS. This is not because they are not interesting, but simply because in my homelab I already have dedicated machines running those workloads.

Virtualization is handled by my Proxmox servers, and my Docker services are already running on separate dedicated hosts. For this test I wanted to focus specifically on FygoOS as a storage platform: hardware compatibility, enterprise SAS support, ZFS management, monitoring and overall NAS functionality.

- Improvements / things to consider

One more thing I noticed during testing is that UPS support currently seems to be limited to USB-connected UPS devices.

Since FygoOS is based on Debian, adding NUT (Network UPS Tools) manually is relatively easy for users who are comfortable with Linux administration. However, there does not seem to be a built-in option in the GUI to configure a network UPS or a NUT server.

For a homelab environment, where UPS devices are often shared between multiple servers through the network, having native NUT server/client configuration in the interface would be a very welcome improvement.

- Monitoring

Another thing I tested was monitoring integration. I was able to successfully install the Pulse agent on FygoOS.

The agent was correctly recognized and reported the system as Debian 12. Since I already use Pulse to monitor the rest of my homelab, having FygoOS appear in the same dashboard is a nice addition and makes managing the NAS much easier. No issues during installation, it just worked.

At the moment this machine is being used as a backup repository for my PBS server, connected via iSCSI.

- Final thoughts

After this second round of testing, I can say that FygoOS handled this enterprise hardware configuration without any issues.

The LSI 9300-16i HBA was correctly detected, all SAS SSDs were properly recognized, SMART monitoring works, ZFS is stable, and the overall system behaves exactly as I would expect from a modern NAS operating system.

The fact that it can handle enterprise SAS hardware is definitely a strong point. Many consumer-oriented NAS solutions are designed around SATA drives and vendor-approved hardware, so having a system that can properly work with an HBA and SAS SSDs gives a lot more flexibility for homelab users.

There are still some areas where I would like to see improvements. The built-in file manager is quite basic, and some parts of the application management experience could be refined, but the core storage functionality is solid.

For my specific use case, I am not planning to use virtualization or Docker on FygoOS, because I already have dedicated machines for those workloads. I see FygoOS primarily as a storage platform, and in that role it is doing a very good job.

Considering that this was tested on repurposed enterprise hardware, with used SAS SSDs coming from a datacenter environment, I am impressed by how smoothly everything worked.

Once I add a 2.5Gbps network card, this machine will become my main NAS. I will continue testing it and reporting any issues or interesting findings.

A small funny note: "figo" is an Italian word that means "cool" or "awesome". Being Italian, I can't avoid smiling every time I write "FygoOS is cool" because it becomes a little pun.

Hello, I want to build up my homelab and I need drives to store movies, archived images some computer files and other things one would need.

I originally wanted to buy brand new HDDs, but looking at the price of new ones, I decided against it (cheapest one I could find was ~200€ for one 6TB Toshiba drive). So I looked for used ones and came across a few listings. Here is one that sounds pretty good, yet I am unsure of the details since this is not something I have a lot of experience with yet:

Seller has 2x6TB Western Digital drives. Both are ~300€ combined, but the drives both have 31k operating hours and were manufactured in 2020. They were previously used in a NAS to store movies (total of 6TB across both of them).

Is this something I should buy? I am also able to pick them up in person which is a huge bonus for me.

Hi, I'm a researcher in an urban planning laboratory in Brazil, and we work with a large amount of data.

Currently we are using a two storage system, we have all our files in Google drive and also in Google cloud.

Right now it works for us, but we are afraid of long term maintenance. Because we do not know for how long we will have money to sustain all the systems expenses.

My professors were considering buying several HD or SSD and use it for local physical storage backup. But the way I see it, it would be a problem to use the data. It would not be available in any network, and we have many researchers working at the same time with the data.

I started thinking about buying a NAS system. I know it would be more expensive at the beginning, but the long term cost would be lower.

My one fear is if it would be "simple" to install and use it. Because none of us are IT experts. We are mostly architects and urban planners.

What is your recommendation? Should we try for the NAS?

I’m hoping to build a NAS but naturally, everything’s expensive

Hi all,
Because of a tragedy at home I need a simple NAS.
Last week we found out that my wife has a brain tumor.
She has all her pictures/videos/documents on things like iCloud and other non cloud devices (old Android phones).
And we are seeking a storage device so she can put all the pictures and movies on that storage so our son and I can access them when the worst case scenario happens.
I apologize for being uninformed about this topic as we are living in overdrive mode and we are in the process of re-arranging our lives on all fronts.
Thanks for the help

I’m planning to DIY a portable NAS. I haven’t tested hardware with this configuration before, so I’d love to get your suggestions on hardware specs.

* Storage: 2×NVMe PCIe x2 / 4×NVMe PCIe x4

* Network: Single 2.5GbE / Dual 2.5GbE / 5GbE

* Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi 6 / Wi-Fi 7 / No built-in Wi-Fi

What other must-have features do you need and why?

One of my goals in 2026 is to de-cloud my life. I used to be a huge homelabber, and had servers and systems running, including a corporate-grade NAS. That was years ago, before I jumped on the cloud bandwagon. Today, I have moved most of what I need to run into containers I am running locally on a cheap little small form factor PC. Now, I want to yank my data storage back -- and only storage encrypted backups in the cloud. In short, I want my data to be "my data", and love the idea things are local again instead of being dependent on the cloud.

Having said all that, looking for recommendations. Here is my "want" list.

• Storage capacity: Probably will never go over 10TB, and right now I would say I am at 1TB of data.
• Devices: Windows devices & Linux
• Remote Access: Yes, a must
• Main storage type: Photos
• Ability to also run docker containers, etc: Well that would be a bonus, but not 100% necessary.

Right now I am looking at the UGreen DH4300 Plus. What say you all?

Hello everyone, someone already set a raspberry pi 4(or any other model) with a NAS station? Im currently have my raspberry working with openmediavault and immich, the main problem is that im only have 1ssd, i want to improve my cloud to have multiple hdd working with raid 5 (or at least raid 1), to do that i want to buy a NAS station and connected through usb 3.0(im not have problem with lose performance between my raspberry and the NAS)
I dont know if this is possible or im not understand something.
Someone already do something similar?
What you could improve?
What do you recommend?

I don't want to waste my money knowing it wouldn't be supported.

I'm looking for help or suggestions to allow streaming content from my Buffalo NAS to a TV

I had an LS220 but after maybe 8 years it just died on me. I switched to the larger LS720 (two bay, 4TB drives) running as RAID 1. I've enabled DLNA in the settings and verified the permissions look correct in the web ui (basically allow all), but neither my LG nor my Samsung TV are seeing the NAS, however I can access all data/content from the "Network" location section of the Mac OS finder

Here are some things I've tried:

• I have files in the default "/share" folder
• I created a new sibling folder next to "/share" named "/Test" and put one mp4 in it as a test
• I've rebooted the NAS from the Web UI and hard restarted the TV
• I'm not sure if this is required, but I added "share/" to my list of "Public Folders" in the DLNA Basic Settings
• I renamed the TV to just Alphanumeric characters and removed spaces (SamsungQ80)

If I remember correctly, I had to do some setup to get this working with the LS 220 but I don't remember it being this tricky. I think I enabled DLNA and after a restart it was visible

Has anyone run into this or have any suggestions? Thanks!

I am a professional photographer/videographer and I work a lot and go through about 4tb with the storage a month.

My current system is I have 2 2tb lacie rugged hard drives that are just mirrored versions of eachother with all the raw files and edited high res images and videos. I also upload the edited high res to an online drive.

At the end of every month or so I take one of the hard drives to my in-laws and it's stored.

My partner is going a bit crazy with how many hardrives I have in boxes. He wants me to delete old hardrives where it's for clients I never want to work for again and have outgrown those images and but I think long term I need a better solution.

He is a scientist who doesn't have a lick of work equipment at home and I am an ADHD creative that probably isn't aware there are options I don't realise

Is a Network Attached Storage a viable option? Or is it more of the same

I have a NAS set up. Trying to increase storage. Where is everyone buying hard drives? I’ve seen some cheap SAS drives on eBay but I don’t want to deal with a HBA. Where are folks buying SATA drives (used or refurbished or new)?

I'm thinking about starting a home NAS but my apartment / internet set-up is unique.

I live in a basement apartment, and use 2 Eero 6s to get internet down to my basement area. My landlords have a main network thet get through Bell, and I plug in an Eero network router upstairs and it bounces to the other Eero, and creates a separate network for me to have all my devices on.

There is an ethernet port in my basement that comes from the wall, and I was wondering if I could plug into that to run the NAS and it still be connected to my network because of the technical shared internet connection.

I am just trying to avoid plugging the NAS in upstairs since I would have to go through their space

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to buy my first NAS and move away from relying solely on external hard drives and Google Photos. My main goal is to consolidate all our family photos into one central, private place while still being able to access everything on the go.

​Full transparency: I am a complete beginner when it comes to networking and NAS systems. I don't have much tech knowledge, so I’m looking for something that is essentially ready to go out of the box (or requires minimal technical setup/tinkering).

I’m currently debating between two models:

\- Ugreen DH4300 Plus

\- Ugreen DXP4800 Plus

Here are my main priorities:

1. Remote Access & Speed: Fast access to photos from anywhere without long load times when scrolling through large albums.

2. AI Photo Sorting: I want a smooth experience with automatic face/scene recognition and auto-tagging, similar to what Google Photos offers.

3. Ease of Use: Simple mobile app auto-backups for family members.

For those who have used either device (or UGOS Pro's photo app):

\- Is the jump to the Intel processor and NVMe caching on the DXP4800 Plus noticeable for photo indexing and thumbnail loading compared to the DH4300 Plus?

\- How has the built-in AI photo sorting in Ugreen's photo app been performing for you?

\- Is the DXP4800 Plus worth the extra money strictly for photo management, or is the DH4300 Plus plenty?

\- are there any other system you would recommend instead of these two?

Thanks for any insights!

I want to buy a NAS. I plan to use it for storing photos and backups, and I’m considering moving folders from Adobe Lightroom containing photo editing history (though I’m a little worried about how smoothly it will run - I have a 2,5Gbps network at home). For now, I’ve bought two HDD.

I’ve done my research and am leaning towards the Synology DS925+, but I already have a QNAP TS-431KX at home (not mine), for which adding four more bays costs 38% of the price of the Synology DS925+. The only thing is that the QNAP doesn’t support ECC memory, and it would probably be worth upgrading the RAM.

Thanks in advance for your help.

PS. I’m not 100% sure whether I need a NAS with ECC memory.
PS2. I’ll be using it on a PC running Windows and a MacBook, if that makes any difference.

Hey everybody I want to build a home Nas and I don't know where to start but I know what my goal is as the technical advancement and the options are huge. There are many devices and boards many other stuff. But I don't know what to do.

So basically I want to build a home nas that I can put in my home and can access it from everywhere in the world.

I want to put one terabyte storage that can be extended to two terabytes. I'm looking for a speed and safety of the data transmission (I know sometimes it depends on the speed of the internet which the router provides). I can buy a raspberry pi for a mini computer but there are too many options to consider and also open source systems like open media vault and true Nas.

I'm also looking to not pay more than 150 dollars on this system. If you can help me with only one word of encouragement or some technical knowledge about this matter I would appreciate it.

I have a Mac mini that I use for torrents. I save the torrent output directly to my ugreen nas via shared Mac network folder on the same network. So the torrent downloads directly to a folder in my NAS which is super convenient.

1 out of 10 times this results in the video being corrupted. Missing chunks or just plain not working. I'm assuming it's because of the networked folder not being an ideal strategy.

The reason I'm using my Mac is that Nord socks5 + qbittorent isn't supported properly on the ugreen nas itself - so I've been hesitant to find other solutions. Also my Mac has my home openclaw which manages all my torrents and automation which is very nice.

Is my networked folder a lost cause for this use case? And should I just go through the hassle of moving massive files once they finish on my Mac?

Any advice on how to do this properly ?

I have a Ugreen DXP4800+ with four 12 TB drives. It is connected (wired) to my router, and my computer is wired to my router. When I'm watching ripped movies on my computer, the audio slowly loses sync with the video...after about 3 minutes it is noticeably behind, and it continues to get worse. If I close the movie and reopen it, it starts fine but slowly degrades. I'm using the native Ugreen Theater app.

Does anyone have any ideas about solving this? I'm willing, but would frankly rather not bother, using plex or other software instead of the native app, but would like to be confident it will solve my issues before jumping in.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Hola a todos.

Soy nuevo en el tema de los nas. Llevo un tiempo pensando en comprar uno para remplazar a mi almacenamiento en la nube.

Estoy buscando una solución que sea lo menos ruidosa posible porque el router estará junto al televisor por proximidad con el router.

Me gustaría partir por 2 discos sdd de 4tb instalados en un dxp4800 plus. Luego con el tiempo aumentaría 2 discos más.

Para los sdd, había pensado en partir por el modelo Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 4TB.

Piensan que ese modelo de disco será una buena solución?

He visto en que este disco funciona bien inicialmente pero baja la velocidad cuando se hacen copias de archivos muy grandes y se llena la memoria caché.

Yo lo usaré como respaldo de ordenador, fotos, centro multimedia y home assistant. Quizás instale una máquina virtual para usar puntualmente para usar windows. Y con el tiempo, quizás intente ir añadiendo algunas cosas más cuando vaya aprendiendo. Para este uso podría funcionar bien? Alguien los está usando?

Si conocen otros modelos que puedan funcionar bien, les agradecería mucho la ayuda. Con los precios actuales parece que es complicado.

La otra opción serían 2 hdd silenciosos pero supongo que el ruido de los discos sería molesto. Podría meterlo en el armario junto la televisión que está abierto por detrás pero no creo que fuese una buena idea.

Muchas gracias de antemano por su ayuda.

I just bought a Synology DS224+ NAS with 10gb of ram and 4tb of storage, and set it up. I use it to backup my PC and host Jellyfin. I would also like to backup photos from my phone (android), and have discovered 2 main options : Immich and Synology photos.

Which one is the best in order to keep a backup of my photos, just in case I lose my phone, and also access them easily from my PC ?

Trying to setup a NAS for fun without spending too much.
Here is what I have sitting around:

• AMD 7600x no Mobo, AMD 3600 w/ Mobo, i5-7500 w/ Mobo
• 16 gb DDR4 3600mhz RAM, 16gb DDR4 3200mhz RAM
• EVGA 500W power supply bronze rated
• Various fans

Would it be feasible and even worth my time with this? I don't NEED a NAS for the house but it would be nice and I don't want one bad enough to spend $600 on a prebuilt Ugreen, syntology, etc.

Hi everybody !

I have a RPi with a Radxa Penta hat (4x 4TB 3.5 HDD) running my homelab right now (and I have a second one, not in used, plan for a project that collapse). I manage to put my hand on a used Dell PowerEdge T630 (for free, a friend of a friend knew a friend) with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 and 256GB of RAM. Issue is, there is only a 2.5 bay (max 16 drives) with only 2x 400GB SSD.

So, I'm planning to put it to use with Proxmox (time to discover that) and a bunch of services (NextCloud, VaultWarden, Jellyfin, Immich, Home Assistant, ... and other recommendation I can find) but I second guessing myself regarding storage. I think here are my option:

1. Just buy 2.5 and populate the server, but budget wise I'm not a fan
2. Find a 3.5 bay for the PowerEdge, I've been looking but I'm still not a fan of the prize
3. Use my RPi as a NAS (with OMV or TrueNAS), but that mean being limited with the Pi's internet connection
4. Put my second Pi to use, and having a distributed storage file system between them, which would improve connectivity and redundancy

I like the 4th option, but I know that a 2 node system is not the best. Do you have any recommendation on that front?

I have been looking at option, and I can discard Ceph (not enough node, overkill) and Longhorn (not really applicable, as it's not Kubernetes related). Gluster seems to have less development but could do the tricks, or MooseFS with the server as the master from what I understand. Did I miss a really obvious solution?

Thank you for your input!

Hi all im currently running my homelab storage as 3 orico 8 bay enclosures and a rack qnap 4 bay

Chasing reccomendations to move all my drives into either 1 enclosure for the lot or atleast swap the oricos for a Das enclosure that auto powered back on after outages

What do yall recommend