I can not over express how happy I am with having setup my NAS from scratch.
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I've done this before. That's why I have a Proxmox cluster separate from my NAS now.
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How do you connect them? Via SATA? Do you have a drive enclosure?
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Setup: noun (set-up)
Set up: verb
You need to pick the right lane, man.
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Why's that?
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Pi-NAS = rpi4 2gb + qnap tr4 USB enclosure + open media vault
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Just USB3, external drives and my Raspi has an enclosure.
Was actually my first venture into homelabbing but it proofed pretty sufficient.
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I wouldn't mind that, but I have a bad habit of over-tinkering with the system files. Having Proxmox as a base where I can spin up VMs and containers to fuck with to my heart's content is far more ideal in my situation. Plus, my entire cluster - NAS included - pulls 100-120 watts.
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Oh I'm always doing something with it, it's basically my winter hobby haha. I'm currently building a "new" NAS out of an old HP Proliant G2 case (from like 2002) and 7th gen Intel hardware, to replace the current Mac mini/4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B. Still gonna keep it running OMV, because it's awesome, but the USB connection between the Mac and drive station is cumbersome.
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Grammer is for english class or grammer community's. Who cares
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If your NAS has enough resources the happy(ish) medium is to use your NAS as a hypervisor. The NAS can be on the bare hardware or its own VM, and the containers can have their own VMs as needed.
Then you don't have to take down your NAS when you need to reboot your container's VMs, and you get a little extra security separation between any externally facing services and any potentially sensitive data on the NAS.
Lots of performance trade offs there, but I tend to want to keep my NAS on more stable OS versions, and then the other workloads can be more bleeding edge/experimental as needed. It is a good mix if you have the resources, and having a hypervisor to test VMs is always useful.
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Sometimes it's just easier to build it from the ground up with all the knowledge you have gathered so far.
