Hi everyone!
I am a newbie in the NAS world, soon I am building a home little NAS with Odroid HC4, which I ordered yesterday.
My plan is to use it to store and access my documents with now reside in my tower PC from the PC itself, my mobile and laptop (when they're attached to WLAN). Further plan is to install something like a Nextcloud instance to access parts of these files from the internet.
Because until now I stored my documents only on my local machine I am here to kindly ask you some suggestions on both hardware and software sides.
Firstly I need to buy the physical drive(s) where put my data. Until now my files reside on a single 3TiB hard drive and there is more than half space free, but I need to think in advance because I would keep my new hardware as long as I can.
Which kind of HDs do you suggest and in which RAID configuration (the Odroid case has two slots for 3,5'' or 2,5'' drives)?
I saw a Seagate IronWolf Pro 12 TB (7200 RPM SATA, 240MiB/S, 256 MB of cache, 1-5-7.8W) and a WESTERN DIGITAL RED 4TB (5400rpm SATA3 180 MiB/s 256MB of cache, 0.4-3.1-4.8W) for 3/5 of the Seegate price. Is it better to buy two of the small HDs or one of the larger? Should these drive fit well with ODROID and OMW or do you have better suggestions?
On the software side, I saw from another post that this installation guide exists and if nobody has a better suggestion I am going to use it for setup. Later, which protocol do you suggest for access the files, SMB, NFT or another one? I use only Linux machines and the phone use E-os which is a degoogled customed version of android.
Is it possible and advisable to use some kind of encryption where the keys never circulates in the net but always reside on the clients? if yes, how to configure OMV in that way?
Are there another suggestions to keep the files secure at a reasonable level?
For minimize the energy waste, is it possible to autosuspend the NAS after a period of inactivity and wake it automatically by LAN?
If you'll have the patience to read this and answer some of my naive questions, I thank you in advance.