NAS OS?

Kidge

Kidge

Kidge

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Hi Guys,

Looking for a new NAS OS for my N54. Currently using Server2016 Essentials but it’s pretty clunky and fancy a change.

Looking in to Unraid and FreeNAS. Would want it to stream movies to Kodi clients, backup couple machines, backup to external hdd, allow me to spin up a couple VM’s and encrypt the drives installed.

Worth changing or just staying with Windows?

My N54 has a SSD for boot and 16GB ram if that helps.
 
Thanks guys, was going to give FreeNAS a try first but can't see whether it would support VM's?

Will probably go for the months free trial of Unraid then to see if it's less clunky then Server2016 but can't see that it supports drive encryption?

Guessing I will have to make compromises if I choose either :(
 
Thanks, decided I'm going to give FreeNAS a try first to see how I get on as a bit of further investigation shows you can create vm's or docker containers.

Turns out Unraid does also support full drive encryption in case anyone was wondering but I think it is currently only possible when initiating the drives.
 
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