--- title: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) description: This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) | daily.dev og:description: This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fU5Pz1wE7.png og:image:alt: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 22 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263. In this post, I’ll walk through how I chose the parts and what mistakes I made. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#homelab](https://daily.dev/tags/homelab), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#storage](https://daily.dev/tags/storage), [#truenas](https://daily.dev/tags/truenas) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7"},"datePublished":"2022-05-30T01:15:15.933Z","dateModified":"2026-07-02T02:13:55.594Z","description":"This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/89c28b86b1856bb0392ff0460a230b68","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/89c28b86b1856bb0392ff0460a230b68","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"homelab,linux,storage,truenas","timeRequired":"PT22M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition)"}]} ```