As the title says i am currently considering switching away from TrueNAS Scale.

My system has a Celeron N3160, 16gb ram, 2x18tb HDD as a zfs mirror and ssd storage for os

My usecase is mostly just as a local storage and media server with *arr stack and jellyfin.

Some of the reasons why i want to switch:

  • Truenas claims a full drive for the OS, no way to partition off something

  • no automatic updates (i get why it might make sense for stability, but as a basic user i probably value the convenience higher)

  • there’ve been issues with truecharts breaking the ability to update and the solution seemed to be to just reinstall the applications

  • applications sometimes don’t show up on start and i have to restart

Overall i think TrueNAS Scale might be excellent for some, but i am just not quite the target audience. So i just want something simple that works.

Now that Unraid supports ZFS that would be a consideration, but i don’t really feel like paying (however i am not completely opposed, if its the best option).

My first idea was Proxmox, but thinking about it a bit more i probably don’t need the flexibility and it just adds more levers that need adjusting.

So the current frontrunner would be OpenMediaVault for a simple NAS setup that doesn’t need as much flexibility and is low maintainance. I assume the setup would be pretty straight forward and i can just import my truenas zfs pool and install whatever docker applications i want.

My questions would be:

  • Is OpenMediaVault a good choice for me? Or is there anything better?

  • Any up/downsides compared to e.g. something like a simple ubuntu server?

  • Is there anything major that i would miss out on by not going with proxmox?

  • tvcvtEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m a big fan of TrueNAS and Proxmox and I think OMV will be great for you.

    In the order you asked:

    • I think OMV is a decent choice, but there isn’t really a bad choice, just better fits for personal tastes.
    • The upside compared to vanilla Debian or Ubuntu is a solid web-UI for management (though you could get that in the form of Cockpit) and a complete system philosophy. The downside is less flexibility. Any system someone else makes locks you into doing things their way.
    • If you don’t have a desire to run VMs or set up clusters, or have by-default ZFS on root, you won’t be missing anything.
    • golli@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for such a fast and thoughtful reply.

      I’ll go ahead then and try out OVM, it’s not like i’d be stuck with it forever anyways :)

      • tvcvtEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s awesome — have a great time playing around with it.