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Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide
- pharos92 9mo agoYeah I think that value prop' just got obliterated by RAM prices sorry.
- longitudinal93 9mo agoYou don't need a lot of RAM to run TruNAS. 16gb should be sufficient unless you are planning lots of VMs.
- Xymist 9mo ago16GB is _not_ sufficient if you have Jellyfin or Immich or similar and a lot of media you want to scroll through quickly; I've found I need a lot of ZFS cache for that to be as responsive as I want, even with SSD storage.
- blueplanet200 9mo agoI just bought a QNAP. I'm a happy customer.
- flumpcakes 9mo agoThis article was pretty low quality and seems to have been written by AI. It might be better browsing r/datahoarders or a similar online community to find some advice on building a 100TB+ NAS.
- xhrpost 9mo agoVery first picture even looks like AI
- radley 9mo agoI think I agree that this was 100% bad AI generated. The 100TB Build (~$2,500) is full of errors. The math doesn't add up as presented, the HDD prices are for used drives, and it confuses RAIDZ1 and mirroring together as "five drives as two mirrored pairs + spare = ~80TB usable."
- willis936 9mo agoStep 1: have $10k in disposable cash sitting around. The rest is gravy.
- ls612 9mo agoI spent $2550 on a TrueNAS setup with 3x22TB drives, so 40 TB usable after setting up ZFS. The case can hold 8 drives so I could go up to 120TB usable for an additional $2000 at $400/drive. Building big storage servers is actually much cheaper than you think nowadays.
- toomuchtodo 9mo agoLink to the case?
- ls612 9mo agoJonsbo N5.
- Youden 9mo agoYou don't need nearly that much. 26TB factory recertified Exos drives are $360 a piece on Amazon and a 4-bay UGREEN NAS is under $500, so you can do 100TB for under $2000. More compute, redundancy etc. of course adds cost but even with RAID1, brand new WD Red drives and a PC build, you should be able to do under $6000.
- alphabettsy 9mo agoAI slop.