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

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're familiar with Linux, I highly recommend it. The flexibility is just great and you can setup whatever dashboards / management tools you need. No need to tie yourself to a specific solution IMHO.

If you're going with Docker containers, a lot of the NAS OSes just hold you back because they don't support all the options that Docker offers. You'll be fighting the system if you need to do any advanced Docker configuration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I'm not familiar, yet. My background is MS OS but going back as far as CLIs so I'm confident I'll learn fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you want reliability, keep your NAS as a NAS; don't run applications on the same system. If you screw something up, you'll have to rebuild the whole thing. Run your applications in a VM at the minimum, that way you can just blow it away and start over if it gets fucked, without touching the NAS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I feel like containers work just as well for the "blow it away" usecase though and it doesn't have the VM overhead.