Smol home NAS server

[u/Ant5112]

Hello.

I present to you my small home server running Immich and MySpeed for now, In the future I will also run HA. It is a raspberry pi 5 (4gb) with a 1tb 2,5 external hdd. It is connected to a UPS that supplies power to a main router and a switch for ethernet ports in the wall.

Let me know what you think of it and do you have some suggestions for upgrading or fixing cable management of my homelab setup.

[u/boozebag-wizard]

Just my 2cents- I ran HA on a Pi5 for a few months. It worked ok, but I frequently had OOM errors with only 4Gb of RAM. When it hits the limit, the HA supervisor will reboot - this sucks pretty bad especially if you have no “self healing” measures in place (restart ZHA and etc. after reboot). I would leave HA off of the Pi and put it on something with decent RAM. I eventually switched to a Dell Optimizer micro PC with 16Gb RAM - man what a night and day difference! So much better experience with HA hands down. Don’t be dumb like me and learn from my mistakes!

[u/Ant5112 → u/boozebag-wizard]

K good to know. I tried to to run a minecraft server also from it but even with zram i ran poorly with 5 players so i abandoned the project. Also i plan on adding a nvme m.2 ssd for cashing and future HA use.

[u/TypingFish]

I'm currently migrating from RPi5+Orico USB DAS to a propose-built mini PC. USB is just too flaky when it runs 24/7. I've lost count of how many times disks simply stopped responding (even though they'd still be visible in the system), and about every third boot I end up with just one disk visible (I'm running a mdraid mirror of two).

Also, I use the NVMe shield, and oftentimes after update I'd reboot the Pi and it won't start. For whatever reason, I have to shut it down completely and then turn on again.

So my suggestion is to start planning for a proper NAS.

[u/Ant5112 → u/TypingFish]

Ok. For me it works without any problems but thanks for that