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submitted 4 months ago by Dust0741 to c/selfhosted

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Its new homelab time. And with that, potentially a new OS time too.

I currently am very happy with Debian and Docker. The only issue is I am brand new to using data redundancy. I have a 2 bay NAS I'll use, and I want the two HDDs to be in raid 1.

Now I could definitely just use ZFS or BTRFS with Debian, and be able to use Docker just like I do currently.

Or I could use a dedicated NAS OS. That would help me with the raid part of this, but a requirement is Docker.

Any recommendations?

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[–] just_another_person 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unraid and Truenas are pretty popular. Openmediavault is less popular, but a pretty simple system based on Debian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been happy with unraid, super simple to use and the community apps makes it easy to find and install docker containers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Unraid is great and I have been using it for over a decade now, but a paid OS on a 2bay nas seems excessive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah plus the pricing change where you only get so many updates now kind of bucks but it was bound to happen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

TrueNAS SCALE expects you to deploy Kubernetes clusters, it is unfortunately not meant for running plain Docker. You can jump through hoops to get it working but I personally gave up and ended up running a VM on top of TrueNAS just to run Docker on it.

I don't know about Unraid though and OpenMediaVault felt a bit unpolished the last time I used it and I can't attest for its ZFS support.

[–] Mrb2 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Truenas scale is switching to docker compose. I found this out when the truecharts catalog suddenly stopped working. more info

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Holy molly, I wasn't expecting this! Well, I guess I'll try that out once Electric Eel's released

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I am currently using Openmediavault for my NAS and can confirm that with an official plugin so far I havent had any issue with my ZFS pool (that I migrated from trueNAS scale since I didn't like their kubernetes use and truecharts, but as someone mentions they seem to switch to docker).

Otherwise I am happy as well, but I am far from a poweruser.