NAS Drive Bays

Building out a NAS (Network Attached Storage) setup with custom drive bay mounts. The goal is a quiet, low-power home server for backups, media, and anything else that benefits from always-on local storage.

Cloud storage works until it doesn't. Pricing changes, services shut down, and bandwidth is always a bottleneck for large transfers. A local NAS sidesteps all of that with drives you own and control.

Hardware Direction

Evaluating small form factor options, something that runs cool and quiet enough to live in a room without being noticeable. Drive selection will prioritize reliability and power efficiency over raw speed since this is long-term storage, not a scratch disk.

Software

TrueNAS or a minimal Linux setup. The priority is data integrity: ZFS snapshots, regular scrubs, and a clear backup strategy so nothing important lives in only one place.