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New to NAS - What are the recommended solutions? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I am thinking about getting myself a NAS to host mainly Immich and Plex. Got a couple of questions for the experienced folk;

Is Synology the best/easiest way to start? If not, what are the closest alternatives?
What OS should i go for? OMV, Synology's OS, or UNRAID?
Mainly gonna host Plex/Jellyfin, and Synology Photos/Immich - not decided quite what solutions to go for.

Appricate any tips :sparkles:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already run proxmox but not TrueNAS. I’m really just confused about the HBA card. Probably a stupid question but why can’t TrueNAS access regular drives connected to SATA?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main problem is just getting TrueNAS access to the physical disks via IOMMU groups and passthrough. HBA cards are a super easy way to get a dedicated IOMMU group that has all your drives attached, so it's common for people to use them in these sorts of setups. If you can pull your normal SATA controller down into the TrueNAS VM without messing anything else up on the host layer, it will work the same way as an HBA card for all TrueNAS cares.

(TMK, SATA controller hubs are usually an all-at-once passthrough, so if you have your host system running off some part of this controller it probably won't work to unhook it from the host and give it to the guest.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense, thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That was one of the things I got wrong at first as well. But it totally makes it much easier in the long run.