I would like to make myself a media server and NAS which stores my photoes and files. I have an Optiplex 3070 with a 1 TB Hdd which i plan to use for my media server and want to buy a raspberry pi to use as a NAS for photos and files. What do you think ? will raspberry pi5 be enough, i want something small.
Why have two computers doing basically the same job when you could just have one?
Have the NAS be the media server and save power and get better performance.
I would install truenas scale on the optiplex and run plex or jellyfin as a app from truenas.
Adding a second large drive for redundancy would be good, also a smallish ssd for the truenas os to run from.
My personal setup takes this level deeper. I have a desktop computer running proxmox. proxmox is installed on a nvme drive. I have a VM running truenas that I have passed my sata controller to. So my 2 10TB sata drives and my 500Gb sata ssd show up as native drives in truenas. The 10tb mirror holds my media library and long term backups. The 500gb ssd is for running apps on trunas like plex, syncthing.
IMO, don’t buy an RPI. It’s overpriced and missing SATA and PCIE, so you would need to use USB-SATA and it’s not about moving big mount of data.
You might take a look at older Synology or build your own NAS and run TrueNAS on it
Just use the OptiPlex for everything. The RPi lacks the horsepower, and storage capability.
I’m currently using a 7 year old OptiPlex SFF as a NAS, backup point, media converter, and media server. I’ve upgraded the storage drive to 8TB.
I do have another old NAS I use only to duplicate my data store locally (I keep 3 local copies of data, and a cloud backup).
The OptiPlex draws 15w at idle, about 85w when converting video. My NAS draws about 5w at idle. I initially tried serving media from the NAS, but it’s performance is frankly abysmal. Instead I run Media Monkey, Jellyfin, and another media server on the Dell, which has no problem streaming to my crappy Samsung TV (not using an app, just the crappy built-in DLNA client) It works even better with decent devices, like my phone, laptop, iPad.
Your biggest concern with that Dell is the power consumption. As I said, mine happens to draw 15w at idle - I got lucky
What are the specs on your OptiPlex? Is it a mini tower or SFF? That would help more than just telling us the model.
Depending on your sensitivity to failures (drives die) I’d get 2 data drives for the Dell and mirror them, using the current drive just for the OS.
It’s an i3 6th generation with 16gb ram. I use an ssd adaptor on my x16 pci because the m.2 is not recognizing the ssd.i do not know how to fit multiple hdd on it to get a good redundency
