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!
Thanks, TC370
I’m planning on 16gb, is that enough for Truenas? And which version of Truenas? Scale or Core? Thanks for the suggestions!
YES! I use that right now.
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.