tailscale or netbird are some good options. with tailscale there is a package for pfsense so makes it easier to set it up on the router side if you prefer.

alternatively there is cloudflare tunnels also does not expose ports for remote access. and adds an authentication layer for added protection





for homelab setups you can check techno tim's channel he shows how he does his







This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 14 2024, 06:24 AM

I used Tailscale before when TM put me behind CGNAT. It was very easy to setup.

some people consider tailscale a privacy issue. so there is headscale for self hosting version of it.

Hey guys. Where do you get your NAS drives from?

The ones from Shopee are tempting especially those from China. They offer 3 years warranty though but i'm sure returns for claim will be challenging.

Anyone tried serverpartdeals before?

Vaultwarden is an alternative to Bitwarden that supports the Bitwarden clients and uses less resources.

Jellyfin an open source alternative to Plex/emby

This post has been edited by kk131: May 15 2024, 08:14 AM

Ya self hosting Bitwarden is using Vaultwarden

Crazy. You believe this warranty from China?

My NAS spoiled before due to Intel chips problem. Lucky brought from local. 1 to 1 exchange even expired warranty. (It is known to manufacture problem)

https://serverpartdeals.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/commen...ard_drive_from/


have to take into account of shipping and customs.

packaging should be fine because they are renowned for packing very well. so the question is the price for the shipping + customs. And yes they do ship to Malaysia.


They are a better deal for US because free shipping for them but not elsewhere


the recertified which is cheaper than brand new MIGHT be worth it. yes they are used and recertified hence why they resell at a lower price. But some of these could simply just be drives that are resold once they reach a certain time period of a few years. So the enterprise would sell them off regardless whether they have issues or not. so that is what you are most likely buying.

They have a 2 year warranty i believe, so that is something. But if the drive you get is seagate, i'm not sure the rma is covered by seagate, but is by serverpartdeals themselves directly? i'm not sure. If it's seagate, seagate rma is good with free shipping, if not, then you probably have to pay shipping yourself for rma, which could be problematic.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 15 2024, 10:24 AM

That’s the thing that’s holding me back. It’s a gamble.

There’s a few local Shopee sellers eg Curated PC, 3C selling exos/ironwolf pro. Prices are not bad but I suspect they source from China and from the reviews, seems like they honour replacement/warranty.

$/TB may not be as good as serverpartdeals but at least the returns/replacement is local, unless they MIA after a few years.

This post has been edited by fishermanG: May 16 2024, 10:47 AM

Exactly my thought. $/TB is pretty good with 2y warranty. Only issue is the return process if the drives fail.

May I know where you get your NAS drive from?

Had a shocker last week on the DS-2411+.

Out of a total of 12 drives, 1 drive went missing. As a result, the unit had to do a parity check which took 2 days with 10 drives. The missing drive got replaced by a hot spare automatically.

Once done, fucking TNB decided to cut the power and once back after 3 hours, the missing drive came back.

I replaced the drive immediately and now seems ok. It will remain as a hot spare.

The fan mod on the DS-1010+ failed. The CPU fan cannot be modded. The 2 case fans no problem. Haih. Gonna retire this unit once I find another 5 or 8 or 12 bay. Fed up with the email warnings and constant beeping.

That sound pretty dangerous to the HDD and the unit.

No UPS to safe shutdown?

UPS died too. Need to change the batteries.

shopee. but i recently found out that recertified might not be that bad a deal, so that was why i was doing research on it and found that. so just sharing. i mean, for the same price roughly would you rather get 4tb or a 12tb? (both nas 24/7 drives) put it that way

yes recertified but i think it should be fine if it has some warranty and somebody inspected it before reselling. I've had brand new drives that died within 2-3 years, so it's not much difference in that sense



china second hand? i wouldn't risk that. But from a reputable company similar to serverpartdeals i might.


This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 16 2024, 01:15 PM

i found this video quite interesting on what can install on NAS

here is another list of apps you could self host
https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

this is hardly everything, but it's a glimpse of the kinds of apps you can self host on a nas.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 18 2024, 03:30 PM

upgraded my truenas server from ivy-bridge to coffee lake platform. my build parts referring to NAS Killer 6.0

apps
- nextcloud
- immich
- prowlarr
- radarr
- sonarr
- jellyfin
- qbit
- jdownloader
- suwayomi
- komga
- influxdb
- tailscale

I am aware of serverpartdeals but the customs tax and shipping could be high. I bought 6x 18TB seagate Exos X18 a year+ ago from Taobao, back then no but even with 10% it's not that bad. The drives are refurbished or from data center as well, zero hours (probably wiped) but they were < 1 year old.

All 6 drives are still working fine today. However it was a gamble, also worried that I get DOA drives. Shipping HDD back to China is close to impossible so you weigh your risks.

since truecharts have abandoned truenas, i changed my setup so that truenas is only for storage
instead of truenas running baremetal and other apps/vms goes on top of it, now i have truenas/ubuntu vm running on top of proxmox

don't need truenas anymore since you can run alternatives like nextcloud/cloudreve/owncloud on lxc's right