What do you mean the addresses are private? Are you double NAT-ed?
As others have mentioned, tailscale or Cloudflare tunnels can solve your problem
dev_all_the_ops
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Do you care about power consumption?
If not, grab a used Xeon workstation off eBay or Facebook. Grab a pci HBA card and you are set. Note that TrueNas needs lots of ram.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to pay power for an empty drive, so I’d setup the 3 12x drives in a zfs pool and store/sell the 16g drives until you actually need them.
- CasaOs
- Cosmos-server
Or proxmox and then you can run one or the other or both virtually.
This video by Wolfgang has tons of good information on finding a good low power cpu.
There is a google sheet pinned at the top where people have real world power measurements.
Basically you want to find a low TDP cpu/motherboard combo.
Why not both?
I run CasaOS inside Proxmox
Instead of 3 small drives, why not go for 2 larger drives. You are sort of fighting 2 constraints. That case isn’t meant for 3 drives.
Also I really think you will regret the usb. You could get a pci to SATA connector and put 1 or 2 drives inside the case.
If power efficiency is important, then you will want to look for CPUs with low TDP.
I reccomend this video by Wolfgang
Or this one by hardware haven
They go into depth on low power home servers.
What’s your budget?
For a very clean professional look and future proofing I would add smurf tube behind the drywall and add a media enclosure
I have that exact terramaster for sale. It would work with smb/nfs/iscsi.
Other options using your existing hardware.
- longhorn (rancher)
- ceph
8gb is bare minimum for ZFS. 32gb would be great. ZFS will use all of it.
I would use a minimum of 3 drives because then it is easy to expand later (opposed to starting with 1 or 2).
You could start with the 16tb drives if you want. Personally I like to save power and every spinning drive takes 5-15 watts of power.