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!
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.
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.
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
