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Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by essell@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Thanks to this community I've learned and I'm feeling inspired. I've loved having an NAS for the last few years, but it's woefully under powered for what I'm using it for these days.

So I've ordered some basic PC parts, gonna build a basic setup using an old CPU I got lying about and try the NAS OS I saw talked about on here recently.

TrueNAS looks like a good option with only slight fears it'll go down the well known path to the dark side like so many free options before.

In any event, I'm looking forward to adding Nextcloud and Jellyfin, to trying out Docker and generally having more control over things.

Thanks again to you all for informing and inspiring.

I'll be back if I get questions!

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[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like Unraid because it's essentially "just Linux" but with a nice web UI. It's got a great UI for Docker, VMs (KVM) and Linux containers (LXC).

[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just got unraid up and running for the first time today. There’s a bit of a learning curve coming from TrueNAS Scale but it supports my use case: throwing whatever spinning rust I have into one big array. Seems to work alright, hardware could use additional cooling so I’ve shut it off until a new heatsink arrives.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What made you switch from TrueNAS Scale to Unraid, if I may ask? Is it just the ability to mix different drive sizes? I'm currently using TrueNAS Core and thinking about migrating to TrueNAS Scale.

[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s the only reason. You can mix drive sizes and still have a dedicated parity drive to rebuild from in case things go poorly. I am aware that it’s basically LVM with extra steps, but for a NAS I just want it to be as appliance-like as possible.

Still using Scale at work, though - that use case is different.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for your response!