I just ordered an Aoostar R1N100 mini PC to replace my aging Synology NAS. Now I’m thinking about what to install on it. It’s supposed to work as a NAS but I also want to host some services on it like papeless-ngx and Jellyfin, which I both run in Docker containers on a different machine right now. Plus anything that takes my fancy in the future. Current candidates are OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS. My priorities are ease of installation and administration, as well as reliability. Which one would you recommend or are there any alternatives I’m not aware of? I’ve also considered Unraid, but I’d prefer something FOSS.
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I use freeipa and the only luck I’ve had with integrating that with storage was by rolling my own with rocky Linux.
Before that truenas worked well, OMV is good for Lower power machines that can’t handle full phat zfs and needs ext4 based mediums.
I’ve been happy with Unraid. The few issues I’ve had were HD controller problems.
Seconded, being able to use different sized drives is nice.
I went from OMV, to TrueNAS, to just mounting the drives directly on my Proxmox host, combining them with mergerfs, and then sharing them from a samba container they’re bind-mounted to.
Unless you have some fairly complex storage needs I’d say go with a good hypervisor over a dedicated storage OS with a hypervisor tacked on.
