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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)

Do people not like TrueNAS?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's fine, but it's really only good as a NAS. BHyve is a terrible virtualization platform. With something like Open Media Vault you get access to KVM, which is a much better way to run a virt or two on the side.

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

You're one of the few who mentioned OMV in the thread and I was wondering why, it works great for me as a VM on proxmox... the only gripe I have is that sometimes the GUI decides I've made changes to the configuration and asks me to apply them, only to fail and get stuck with the notification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TrueNAS isn't just BSD anymore. There's Scale which is just TrueNAS's UI and ZFS on top of Debian.