I’m building a homelab Kubernetes cluster with 3 nodes to start (each node has 256GB SSD). I’m looking at an external NAS to add into the mix, but not looking to run applications on the NAS. What is the best & cheapest option for a 2 or 4 bay NAS to use for my K8s applications, Plex, photo backup, files, etc?

This 4-bay Terramaster is definitely in my price range -

https://www.amazon.com/TerraMaster-Transcoding-Personal-Storage-Diskless/dp/B07ZV7K7GX?th=1

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but also open to ideas on just buying an old machine that is low power consumption that I can shove some drives into.

  • dev_all_the_ops@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have that exact terramaster for sale. It would work with smb/nfs/iscsi.

    Other options using your existing hardware.

    • longhorn (rancher)
    • ceph
    • FeedMeAnAlgorithm@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Was trying to grok this the other night. If I use HDDs installed on each node (3 nodes with 256GB each), longhorn would allow me to utilize 256GB total assuming I do replication right?

      Then if I had a NAS, Longhorn wouldn’t be necessary assuming I am running TrueNAS to replicate the data on the NAS?