Hi everyone,
I’d like to seek some advice on a proposed change of my home server setup that I’m considering.
Current setup:
- Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspbian): with openHAB, Node-RED, Mosquitto, Grafana, InfluxDB, UniFi controller
- Raspberry Pi 2 (Raspbian): with piHole, unbound, WireGuard
- DS212 (DSM) as a NAS
Issues:
- High power consumption due to running three systems.
- Limited backups (currently only backing up configuration files).
- Occasional SD card corruptions (fortunately, backups have saved the day).
- The DS212 Web UI seems to get slower with each DSM update.
Proposed Solution: I’ve been considering consolidating everything onto one machine using a modern proxmox+Docker setup instead of running everything bare metal. Here’s my idea after some research:
- Get an ASRock N100-based mainboard with 32GB RAM, a 500GB NVME drive, and 2 SATA ports (for the two 2TB SATA drives from my Synology).
- Use the NVME for Proxmox and create two VMs:
- VM for all the smart home/networking applications (migrated from the RPi4+RPi2), isolated into Docker containers.
- VM for NAS functionality (any suggestions for a NAS OS?), using the two SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration.
Questions: I would greatly appreciate your advice on the following:
- Does my proposed hardware configuration seem suitable for my needs? Anything better than the N100? Do I need 32GB?
- What NAS OS would you recommend for the second VM (TrueNAS, OMV, anything else)?
- Are there potential drawbacks or challenges I should be aware of with this new setup? I have the feeling I am over complicating things.
- Any other thoughts or suggestions?
If you are only rocking a few TBs, I’d recommend considering a way to switch to an all NVMe 2TB setup.
I don’t there it yet but I’m either going to do a 4x SSD or a 8x NVMe icydock… But some newer mobos have two NVMe slots which can get you 8 TBs that you can then slap zfs on via proxmox.