I’m having trouble deciding which software platform fits my hardware. This is not a standard “what’s the best” type of post, as ultimately they will all run containers so it’s more “I have this stuff, what would you do in my situation?”.

Not my first rodeo, familiar with linux and docker, I got tired of running commands to keep a plex service running and switched to Windows 11 which just worked. My new goal is to find a balance where I can run most containers but not have to fiddle with every config file in cli constantly. I almost bought a QNAP NAS but thought why spend another $500 when I have a nice box working fine now.

Hardware:

  • Mini PC with Xeon E-2144G 3.6ghz, 16GB RAM, 2x 1TB SSD
  • QNAP TR-004 dumb USB DAS with 32TB in a hardware R5. Not ideal but it’s what I have at the moment. About 6 TB currently in use.
  • Want to run local smtp for notifications, tautulli, plex (just me as user) and a few others apps like immich, wireguard and become more self-sufficient with cloud storage/passwords.

I’m testing Open media vault right now and OMV seems fine I guess. Probably a good fit balancing convenience with capabilities. I’m trying to keep it simple.

Unraid is enticing but I have a DAS with RAID capabilities already and matched drives, and also no reason to use a USB stick for an OS drive when I have perfectly good SSD’s, right?

Truenas is bsd which i’m not familiar with, I just don’t see the advantage for me but maybe I’m just not seeing why this is would fit my needs better.

Am I missing others? Something I didn’t think of? Maybe it’s easy, I pick OMV and move forward.

Thanks for any advice or input.

  • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just used an old computer, filled it with hard drives, and ran Samba. The config file has to be edited once and its a little cryptic but its a low maitenance thing.

    With samba im able to access it on all my linux machines and my husband can use his windows laptop to watch movies from it.

    I wrote a few scripts that are really just fancy aliases to quickly change directory to the files from my main computer using ssh.

    My main computer has no gui and im using a terminal right now to read lemmy. _

    I use ubuntu on it so it has a gui if i need one.