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  • “highly configurable” and “very little effort to start using” don’t blend together in car mechanics, and they don’t in Linux either.

    I was going to suggest Gentoo or Arch because they’re the standard for “highly configurable” but they really demand some effort to start using them.

    Also, so far, only Debian really, really, cares about open source, most distros don’t mind copyrighted video codecs or proprietary GPU drivers if they make the user’s life easier.













  • The most common software choices are TrueNAS and UNRAID.

    Depending on your use-case, one is better than the other:

    TrueNAS uses ZFS, which is great if you want to be absolutely sure the unreplaceable data on your disks is 100% safe, like your personal photos. UNRAID has a more flexible expansion and more power efficient, but doesn’t prevent any bit flip, which is not really an issue if you only store multimedia for streaming.

    If you prefer a hardware solution ready to use, Synology and QNAP are great choices so long you remember to use ZFS (QNAP) or BTRFS (Synology) as filesystem.