I’m working on building a NAS for a media server and I’m trying to figure out what OS to choose. I’m not apposed to paying for something if it’s worth it, but free and open source is always appreciated. Drive pooling is a must and support for raid would definitely be a pro. On top of that I’d like to run all the arr’s, Plex, Tautulli, and a few other things. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

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Thanks, TC370

  • dev_all_the_ops@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Unraid- if your drives are different sizes. Truenas - if you have lots of ram and like ZFS. CasaOs - If you like pretty things. Proxmox + Open Media Vault - If you want to run vms.

    • Jonteponte71@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This should be the answer for the other twenty similar questions that is posted to this group every day.

    • Thiscave3701365@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m planning on 16gb, is that enough for Truenas? And which version of Truenas? Scale or Core? Thanks for the suggestions!

      • dev_all_the_ops@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        CasaOS can mix and match, but it uses mergerFS which doesn’t have the same parity as ZFS/ceph/raid.

        Im also a big fan of CasaOS and run it. You should also check out ZimaOS alpha release as it has more raid functionality.

        ZFS needs roughly 1GB of ram per TB of storage.

        Truenas code is older and runs on BSD. 99% of people will want to run Scale.