---
title: "Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-budget-homelab-nas-server-2022-edition--fu5pz1we7
source_url: https://mtlynch.io/budget-nas/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-05-30T01:15:15.933Z
updated: 2026-07-02T02:13:55.594Z
tags: ["homelab", "linux", "storage", "truenas"]
reading_time: 22
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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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)

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