I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?

  • nezbyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    OMV with SnapRaid+MergerFS in a Proxmox VM. I used an LSI card with PCI passthrough to the VM so it could see the drives. Nightly snapshots of the VMs are very convenient if you ever need to restore/migrate your install.

      • Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        2 years ago

        At the moment I do exactly that. Learn proxmox, omv, influxDB and tomorrow grafana comes around to play 😉

        Nevertheless proxmox and omv are the difficult ones if you never used a hypervisor before. And my toughest lesson was: software raid is pretty slow. This took quiet some time to realise that this was the problem.

        But it is great to have a hypervisor to play around with, test different things in containers or vms and if you mess things up, just spin up another in a few seconds and try it again. It just feels less impactfull than reinstalling all stuff on one machine.

        And you learn a lot about networks along the way if you aren’t already familliar with it.

  • MrGandalf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have tried few of them but I highly recommend you to try UNRAID. It will introduce you to world of docker containers

  • BaldDude@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I verry much like OMV, simply because i could use it with knowledge i already have.

    It is a Debian system -> I understand that

    It uses normal RAID and ext4 -> I understand that (Plus, if things go wrong, I can just pop the drives back into any other computer and use it without much fuss)

    It has a rSnapshot plug in -> I already used that in the past.

    Sure I’m missing out on fancy stuff like BTRFS / ZFS, but i can live with that.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      TrueNAS Scale is also Debian and uses standard ZFS for drive management. However I’m not a fan of the TrueNAS webUI, it feels overly complex and stuff can be hard to find.

      OMV + MergerFS, SnapRAID, or just MDADM is nice and simple.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Lvm can get you 80% of the way to basic zfs. I’m a bit similar, old school Unix who likes debian because it makes sense, but storage is one of my dominating constraints so zfs is mandatory (even if I hate stuff like the way the arc works by default).

  • TBi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I run OMV baremetal for last few years. I really like it. I did try TrueNAS and found it too convoluted.

    Nextcloud is a totally different beast that would run on top of either.

    OMV allows you to use ZFS as well if you want (I do) but also the flexibility to use other raid systems.

    I just wish they’d left in portainer as default. No point reinventing the docker wheel…