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.
Table of contents
Background 🔗︎Storage planning 🔗︎How I chose parts 🔗︎What’s missing? 🔗︎Parts list 🔗︎Compared to off-the-shelf products 🔗︎Build photos 🔗︎Building the server with TinyPilot 🔗︎Is this BIOS version incompatible? Or am I an idiot? 🔗︎Performance benchmarks 🔗︎Final thoughts 🔗︎Video 🔗︎3 Impressions