--- title: My Homelab Setup | daily.dev description: A personal account of repurposing an old 2018 gaming PC into a home server running TrueNAS Community Edition. The setup covers RAID 1 storage with two 8TB WD... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-homelab-setup-f4kj2y1pz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My Homelab Setup | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of repurposing an old 2018 gaming PC into a home server running TrueNAS Community Edition. The setup covers RAID 1 storage with two 8TB WD... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-homelab-setup-f4kj2y1pz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f4kJ2Y1Pz.png og:image:alt: My Homelab Setup 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. # My Homelab Setup **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of repurposing an old 2018 gaming PC into a home server running TrueNAS Community Edition. The setup covers RAID 1 storage with two 8TB WD Red Plus drives, automated snapshots, and off-site backups to Backblaze B2 via Backrest and restic. Self-hosted apps include Immich for photo management, Mealie for recipe tracking, Scrutiny for drive health monitoring, and Ollama for running local LLMs. Remote access is handled through Tailscale over WireGuard, avoiding public internet exposure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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