TrueNAS is an operating system designed for network-attached storage devices, but it only officially supports systems with x86_64 processors. Unofficially though, there's a new 64-bit ARM port that works on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5. #TrueNAS#NAS#ARM#RaspberryPihttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/truenas-on-arm-finally-thing
So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.
Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.
In this post I list the things I pay attention to when self-hosting, why I self-host, and why I don't host services for others in my free time
https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-services-but-i-do/
@thibaultamartin I'm most probably much less skilled than you are, and I can already say that my first #selfhosted deployments on a #raspberrypi and a #VPS were already too much. Resilience and scalability are sooo underrated!
I just gave up on the VPS and the #pihole
I'm even considering to move away from my #synology#NAS and use a "clean" cloud service. Drive, photos backup, contacts/calendar/tasks (but my mail being on #mailfence, I could already have those 3 on my current subscription).
I would be grateful to hear your suggestions about that live, and about decent service that could help me.
Thanks for the great articles!
Just saw someone whose Google account was shuttered. They’d been… using Sheets to track movies they’d watched.
A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
@craiggrannell I went with a #Synology#NAS. Has a "Dropbox" like functionality. And it also has a Google Suite like app that you can install. But, I mostly use @libreoffice for my those things.
My data. My rules.
Synology recently announced that some of its network-attached storage (NAS) require Synology-branded storage for full functionality. Now the company has begun selling a line of wildly overpriced SSDs. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/synology-starts-selling-overpriced-1-6-tb-ssds-for-usd535-self-branded-archaic-pcie-3-0-ssds-the-only-option-to-meet-certified-criteria#Synology#Storage#SSD#NAS
