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You have a few options.
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OpenMediaVault and amahi are easy to use. Best for low power systems. Easy to add plugins and 'apps'.
Then you have truenas core (renamed from freenas). Lots of features, plugin store, use docker. Bit more hands on diy.
Unraid is quite good too but its paid. Generally easier to setup and use compared to truenas.
See the above links for more options.
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OpenMediaVault and amahi are easy to use. Best for low power systems. Easy to add plugins and 'apps'.
Then you have truenas core (renamed from freenas). Lots of features, plugin store, use docker. Bit more hands on diy.
Unraid is quite good too but its paid. Generally easier to setup and use compared to truenas.
See the above links for more options.
tech.monk
Level G
+1, you can have Plex and everything Synology offers
fastapifastdisks
Level F
+1 for omv ran it on a raspberry pi for a year or so.
TinTinSnowy
Level G
Do you guys underclock/disable cores to reduce power consumption for x86 old system based NAS?
bobbyprajan
Level F
I had setup xigmanas (previously nas4free) for a friend's business 5 years back. The only issue we had is the usb drive going bad
I have an i5 2500k system. I didn't see any appreciable increase in my power bill with it turned on all the time. So i didn't bother with underclocking. Why take away the ability to speed up when needed?
tommy_vercetti
Level G
Might has a look at this https://nascompares.com/2018/09/27/xpenology-how-to-install-synology-dsm-on-your-custom-built-nas/ this will make it similar to Synology
Thanks all. Let us say we use Open Media Vault, do we have to format all the HDDs involved ? I have 3 500 GB HDDs.
My use is strictly home-based. To learn and set up a media server / file sharing system for home devices. So I would like to make sure that the NAS is not going to be accessed outside the Home network.
My use is strictly home-based. To learn and set up a media server / file sharing system for home devices. So I would like to make sure that the NAS is not going to be accessed outside the Home network.
fastapifastdisks
Level F
i did this calculation years ago so basically the amount of power this consumes in a year around 6k in power(atleast my ryzen machine does) if starting from scratch its best to use a cheap 25w U based nuc/mini pc or a raspberry pi. i know people say usb drives go bad but imo just buy 2.5 inch sata drives and put them in 300 buck usb to sata cases. for a home backup/media server this works very well. These machines can be had for cheap from olx or factory corporate recyclers. or get a raspberry pi.basically over 3 years one will endup saving 15k plus for thin clients/pi's replacement parts are cheap af. I run esxi and instead of just running omv i run bunch of operating systems.
What kind of HDD did you use for it?
fastapifastdisks
Level F
a laptop 2.5 inch drive put in a cheap usb to sata case. i know usb etc but then it worked fine.
What kind of speed were you getting? Could you stream 2K videos?
fastapifastdisks
Level F
I could stream 1080p smoothly on the raspberry pi 3B which had the shared usb 2.0 + 10/100 bus that too with a 10 year old seagate external drive with 30 mbs or read write. Never tried anything above that. The pi4 with its usb 3.0 and gigabit Ethernet should be much better at streaming. i3,i5 U/T processor nucs are even better. Anything with usb 3.0 and a decent processor in the last 10 years or so processor can stream 4k fine at that point your wifi is where all the magic happens bottlenecks arise.
I am using Raspberry Pi 4B as my NAS, Media server, DNS.
- Media Server: Currently, I am using an open-source software Jellyfin which acts as a media server. It starts a web server and has a very beautiful UI which is customizable as well. It does not need to create an account like other software as Plex does, and it puts you in control of everything. It uses a media library from an external hard drive.
- NAS: Currently Using SAMBA Server which hosts entire external hard disk as NAS. Just need to add a network location with the path in the windows. Also can be accessed from mobile.
- DNS: Pi-hole is open-source software that blocks ads on all devices connected to that local network. It acts as a DNS, and it maintains hosts/domains used by adverts and blocks them from getting resolved. This helps in blocking ads on every device that is connected to the internet.
- Media File Conversion: I am using open-source software Tdarr to convert all the files to H264+AAC encoding with an MP4 container. Rpi is not powerful enough to transcode files into web compatible encoding on the fly for multiple users at the same time. So I transcode all the files beforehand. This software checks the media library and converts all the necessary files into required encodings and containers.