Hoping to set up a general location to throw files.

It might be used as a storage dump for Plex too…

Recommendations?

Edit: the synology recommendations have won out. Went with the DS923+. Thanks for all of the thoughtful recommendations!

  • Cam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Never setup a nas but if I was to get one, I would use truenas since it is foss.

    For fireproof and waterproof nas systems, check out iosafe. Not sure if truenas will work on them however.

    https://iosafe.com/

      • Cam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yes, it is the OS of the nas. I do not know what hardware will work for it. I only played around with truenas in a VM

    • exscape@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Plenty of FOSS ways to set up a NAS. I’m going for Debian with ZFS myself, I prefer custom solutions as they are almost always more flexible than “NAS OS:es”.

      • Cam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        What software do you need when using debian? Just ZFS as a file system?

        • exscape@kbin.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          It depends on what your goals are of course, but I use ZFS for the file system, sanoid to take snapshots on a schedule (hourly saved for a few days, daily saved for 1-2 weeks and so on up to monthly saved a year or two), Samba to actually share the files to Windows computers, Plex to share media to my TV.
          Also rsync to a second (offsite) computer for replication/backups of the most important stuff. That computer also takes ZFS snapshots to get easy versioning of the files.

          I wouldn’t recommend it for most people, but it’s nice if you’re comfortable working with Linux to begin with.