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Building a 300TB NAS and the Hardware That Hated Me

Published: Wed 08 October 2025
By Cadence James

In homelab.

tags: nas truenas hardware homelab storage

Part 1: Building a 300TB NAS and the Hardware That Hated Me

It started with an exciting vision: to build a true "endgame" home server. The goal was to consolidate my sprawling setup into a single, powerful All-in-One server. I already had the chassis, a 45Drives HL15, and the storage—fifteen 20TB Seagate drives ready to go. Now, I just needed to pick the brains of the operation.

After a bit of research, I landed on what felt like a killer combo for a TrueNAS SCALE build.

The Final Parts List (after all my troubleshooting):

  • Case: 45Drives HL15
  • Motherboard: Supermicro …
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