Hoping to set up a general location to throw files.
It might be used as a storage dump for Plex too…
Recommendations?
Edit: the synology recommendations have won out. Went with the DS923+. Thanks for all of the thoughtful recommendations!
If you want the best UX and polish, Synology
If you want something rougher around the edges, QNAP
You can always look into building a solution with something like unraid, truenas, or OMV
If choosing Synology look into the Plus series (f.e. DS723+) or you end up with ARM CPUs and lose many of Synologys software goodies.
Their Active Backup for Business software is a nice way to backup the household machines as an example.
As you enter packages in this list you will see which models are supported:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages
No mentions of TrueNAS (used to be FreeNAS), so I’ll throw that one out there.
Seconding this because my current NAS is dying and I’d like to relocate my LEGITIMATELY OBTAINED MEDIA COLLECTION somewhere else.
Plex seems cool but last time I tried it I couldn’t get it to categorize my non-english movies and shows correctly.
I haven’t explored Jellyfin’s categorization, but could that be an alternative? It’s FOSS
I’ve had some heartache with Plex’s categorization system too, on English language content nonetheless…
I cant imagine the pain of making it work for foreign content.
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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.
Does synology run on FOSS?
It’s *nix under the hood. You can run docker images really easily on it for extra functionality. I doubt the DSM tooling is open.
Thanks! Seems like a lot of people (both here on lemmy and elsewhere) recommend synology
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 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.
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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.
Never setup a nas but if I was to get one, I would use truenas since it is foss.
For fireproof and waterproof nas systems, check out iosafe. Not sure if truenas will work on them however.
TrueNas is just the software isn’t it? Which hardware to go with?
Yes, it is the OS of the nas. I do not know what hardware will work for it. I only played around with truenas in a VM
Plenty of FOSS ways to set up a NAS. I’m going for Debian with ZFS myself, I prefer custom solutions as they are almost always more flexible than “NAS OS:es”.
What software do you need when using debian? Just ZFS as a file system?
I used a raspberry pi with OpenMediaVault
