I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I’m planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?
I’m brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I’d be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I’m already familiar with that distro.
TrueNAS
As someone with TrueNAS SCALE and having been through the mess of TrueCharts, I’d go with Proxmox on the bare metal and have 1 VM for TrueNAS SCALE and another for docker-compose or whatever apps system you want. SCALE is fine as a NAS but the apps system is currently limited and about to completely change; it’s just not mature not stable. If you already have a home server running the apps you want and you’re only expecting this server to be a NAS, then go ahead with SCALE on bare metal.
Seconding this. TrueCharts has been an absolute pain and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Thirded. TrueCharts has been a monumental pita. Looking forward to docker compose in the fall with the next version of TrueNAS is released.
Wasn’t aware they were integrating docker-compose, that’s the perfect solution. I got so fed up with TrueCharts that I’ve been considering nuking my NAS and reinstalling OMV or something similar, but I guess I’ll wait it out and see what happens.
Is it going to be just a NAS? If so go TrueNAS with lots of ram. (ZFS likes its ram)
If you want to run VMs use Proxmox
TrueNAS is fine but the dead-simplest I’ve ever seen is CasaOS which has one-click network file sharing.
I’d honestly just go Ubuntu server LTS and learn to configure it through the terminal. It’s not too difficult to setup. NFS and Samba shares.
HexOS is built on TrueNAS and looks promising as a simplified version. Looks like it isn’t available yet but I think you’re who the kind of user they are building it for.
I like TrueNAS Scale. If you don’t mind paying for a server OS and parts of it being proprietary, check out Unraid.