Comment on home system setup advice
tvcvt@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Personally, I wouldn’t bother wiping the asustor. There’s nothing wrong with OpenMediaVault, but it’s not any more straight forward than TrueNAS. If you’re looking for beginner simple, maybe something like HexOS or CasaOS would be more to your liking. But that makes me wonder about Proxmox for this setup. I love Proxmox and use it extensively at home and at work. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible, but it’s a lot less hand-holdy than TrueNAS. By all means give them all a try—thats the fun—but expect a learning curve before things really click.
kurcatovium@piefed.social 3 days ago
OK, I’ll see. I have a tiny bit of exposure to Proxmox at work so I know it’s not easy, but since it will be my HW I can fuck it up as much as I want without getting fired :-)
My thought process of OMV vs TrueNAS is that TrueNAS might be a little bit overkill when the only thing I’d want is to share the space (either NFS or SMB). I had to upgrade the RAM in the Asustor just to install it in the first place…
tvcvt@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I hear you and I’m all for diving in—breaking things is half the fun.
If you’re after something straightforward for NAS software, another thing to consider would be vanilla Debian with Cockpit and 45Drives’ excellent filesharing plug in. I like the combo quite a bit.
Enjoy the journey!