Hello guys,
I've been thinking lately about this and I would like to have your opinion.
When I started in the "NAS" world, I wanted to learn and understand, different ways of storing my data and give services to my mediacenter to enjoy my movies and shows on the living room with my wife.
Little by little, my NAS was useful & uselful and I started to delete data locally on devices at home (tablet, smartphone, computers...) to centralize everything. I created a RAID and rsync backups for important things.
Now, even my wife is working 8hours/day directly with OMV from Work using Samba on VPN to edit & manage her files.
Our NAS became a professional tool. It is an essential element which needs to ensure service 24/24
It is kind of funny, in one or two years, I passed from raspberry pi to download some torrents to OMV on HP Proliant G8 with OMV to store personal & professional data & as a mediaserver for family & friends in different countries...
So one begins to think that he needs a system for a long-term use, stable and with support.
I can't get out of my head that OMV is a system based on the goodwill of a few developers....what will happen when this 2 o 3 "pillars" are leaving the community? or just when the integrator of plexmediaserver is leaving for exemple, or etc...?
I have the (maybe wrong) impression that a system like "synology" or "windows" is going to be more solid versus time....
Or maybe this are stupid thoughs, I don't know guys, just wanted to share with you...
Cheers!