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Which is better OMV or TrueNAS or Nextcloud? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by reddit_sux to c/selfhosted

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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?

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[–] nezbyte 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] reddit_sux 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a lot to learn.

[–] TBi 3 points 1 year ago

Things are easy or free. Rarely both. :) it’s well worth learning OMV. If you have any questions I’ll try to help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.