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I'm building a NAS, I have a HP elitedesk 800 G4 with an i5-8500, 24GB DDR4, 256GB m.2 and 2 x 4TB WD red drives.

I already use Open Media Vault with a very small scale NAS but this new one will be for backup, Jellyfin, Frigate CCTV and a few other Docker containers.

I'm seeing reports of TrueNAS no longer being open source which doesn't bother me too much (yet) but if they decide to pay wall features, I wouldn't be happy losing access. Do I stick with Open Media Vault as I know how it works or move to TrueNAS with it's ZFS filesystem? I wouldn't be making use of many Apps as all I want to install is done by Docker.
 
I'd go FreeBSD with ZFS natively but if you want Docker that's out of the question, and doesn't get you a nice GUI. I prefer Jails myself but appreciate not everyone has the time or interest in configuring things themselves.

Even if TrueNAS do a 'Redis' and stop providing things, you'll be able to stick with the current builds and they'll be supported for a while, and let's be honest someone will fork it anyway.
 
Thanks for this. I have no idea what Jails are and even though I don like to configure and tinker, keeping it simple is a much better approach for me.
 
OpenMediaVault has imo never been a serious option for any home NAS - it's produced by a single developer.

For home NAS environments, UnRAID generally makes the most sense - you get parity based protection, but the ability to mix and match drive sizes, and spin them down when not needed.

If you are more interested in Virtualisation/Containers, Proxmox is probably more of an idea - it has robust backup options, and also has ZFS pool options that could be used as a basic NAS (after installing Samba etc)
 
I do currently have proxmox deployed with multiple VM's and LXC's. I did think of using Proxmox but want to keep all separate.
 
I'll second Armageus's Unraid recommendation. I've personally used Unraid across three servers over the past decade and (touch wood) it's never let me down. Installing containers through the Unraid App Store is a one click process. Not having to mess about trying to get things installed means you can spend more time messing about getting things working the way you want them to.
 
I ummed and ahhed over TrueNAS vs Unraid when I built by home server using old components of mine, in the end I went with Unraid last month

Now it runs 7 docker containers and a VM on a dedicated SSD drive, has an SSD cache pool configured, and as I don't use the NAS very often after my initial copy to it, the mixed size HDD drives sit there spun down most of the time. It's been an easy process to set it all up and I'm very happy that I went with unraid
 
I think the main thing that sold me was being able to use my multiple old HDDs, and be able to scale up with newer disks as I fill them with very little effort.
I bought a Jonsbo N5 case to house it all, so I just slide in a new disk, use the wiping plugin on it, then add it to the array
The help docs are great, as is this youtube guide playlist:
www.youtube.com

Unraid - Zero to Hero

Unraid Playlist for new and experienced users who want to follow a fresh setup and deployment of a Unraid server.
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com

If I've been stuck with anything at all, google.com in AI mode has told me exactly what to do if I put an error message in
 
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Another Unraid vote, could have gone either truenas or unraid with my hardware but went unraid due to the fact it only spins up the required drives on the main array if in an unraid array. Outside of that I could also use zfs if I wanted. Primary use is jellyfin and download box at the moment.

Having said that I do think the price is a little high for what it offers these days compared with when I got it.
 
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