No mentions of TrueNAS (used to be FreeNAS), so I'll throw that one out there.
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Are you looking for a turnkey product or are you open to building your own?
My vote would be for ZFS+Linux, otherwise Synology is pretty damn good.
Knowing my track record for completing projects.. turnkey is probably best for me. Haha
Seeing a loooot of recommendations for Synology
Yeah I think you can even get ZFS on some of their products. (I like ZFS) 😄
I always rolled my own Debian servers on microitx boards. I found a cheap synology a few years ago though and gave it a shot.. I'm a convert for sure. They fully live up to the hype and are absolutely worth the price.
Thanks! Seems like a lot of people (both here on lemmy and elsewhere) recommend synology
I have two NAS Solutions, both using raspberry pis running OMV. First one is a single external USB hard drive acting as a buffer when it downloads my legitimately obtained media before transferring its data to the second NAS running two USB hard drives running RAID 1 for deep storage and streaming.
How are you connecting the two drives to the Pi? Do they have external power supplies?
The single drive can power itself through USB. The other server with 2 drives have their own independent power supply. Look up WD EasyStore to get an idea of what kind of model they are.
Thanks! Been on the lookout for good HDDs with external power supply.
Can you link something that explains this more?
I just followed these tutorials and it worked quite well.
I could actually recommend the synology DS220J. super simple, cheap, can run your plex server on it so it's not tied to your main pc.
You'll outgrow it quickly but you'll know exactly what you want in your next nas or if you want to build one instead.
The J can barely run Plex
My (albeit, somewhat older) j model hits 100% cpu just logging into the web UI. Synologys are nice, but definitely stay away from their budget models.
you can run plex on a potato as long as you don't need to transcode anything
True, but as tarjeezy says just the UI spiked the CPU. I upgraded from a J to a + last year and the extra bucks were worth it.
Built one with Proxmox with OMV on top.