Is OMV OK for my purpose?

carzacc · 9. April 2016

I have a P4 3 GHz 2 GB RAM system that has not been used much and I would like to use it as a NAS (not 24/7 and with no particular performance need ) mainly as a backup that can easily be accessed from PC's, smartphones and tablets connected to the LAN, my only real concern is about the storage for the OS itself: it needs a dedicated drive, and I saw on the Internet that a flash drive can get burned really easily and that's not really a nice scenario, what's the best (or rather cheapest) alternative that would work fine?
Or maybe it's not even worth it to use OMV with that setup or maybe it isn't even suitable as a NAS, you know better.

sieben · 9. April 2016

Many systems are suitable for OMV. Many people, including me, have it running on a raspberry pi, banana pi, or similar.
So why shouldn't your system be suitable. You can do with OMV all the things you mentioned.
And regarding the OS, it doesn't need a dedicated drive! It only needs a dedicated partition.
You could use it even with only one HDD for OS and Data, just split the HDD into two partitions. The OS partition for OMV does not need much space, 10GB is more than enough!

ryecoaaron · 9. April 2016

That system would work but would not be very power efficient. You can use a flash drive but install the flashmemory plugin. OMV uses the entire drive that you install it on but you can resize it and create another partition to use for data.

carzacc · 9. April 2016

Power efficiency is not a big deal for me since I would not be using it 24/7, I didn't think about partitioning the HDD! Thanks for your answers!

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