My Self-Hosted NAS Build Experience
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Introduction
My Synology DS218+ had been repeatedly showing disk power-off errors. I suspected the SATA backplane, and that became a good excuse to retire my 8-year-old NAS and build a small server to use as both a NAS and a homelab machine. In this post, I share my self-built NAS journey, including hardware choices and software setup.