Hi everyone!
I have been been donating to the OMV project and using exclusively OMV on my home NAS for over 2 years...the system never ceases to amaze. I think the community here is great, so good that I have always found the information I needed from other posts and have never had to write anything! I have a few ideas for upgrading my current NAS setup in the interest of reducing energy consumption (here in Germany the KWh is rediculous) and I really don't need CPU power in the setup I have now. Additionally, I am approaching 4TB of data (movies/music/pictures) and need to upgrade HD space anyways. I have been looking around on the OMV forums as well as in the Orangepi forums and information seems a bit scattered so I thought I would address my specific questions in a post.
Current Setup:
Dell Vostro 400 with 2 x 4TB Seagate NAS drives (2nd 4TB is RSync'd to 1st)
Idle Consumption: 72W
For fun I had a RaspPi 3 laying around and installed OMV on it from the repos, attached a 1.5TB USB drive and all I can say is, WOW. Impressive. The little thing had no problems streaming music and the upload and download of photos was really snappy. Streaming HD movie files with lower bitrates even worked nice! Best part about it, idle power consumption = 4W! The RaspPi would be great except I have a lot of movies which are Bluray and the USB 2.0 just doesn't have the transfer rates to get it over the network to my Kodi HTPC.
I would like to take a single board computer has Gigabit Ethernet as well as a sata. The idea would be to then get 1 8TB NAS drive (will have probably 5W consumption alone and likely not able to be powered from a small single board PC) and install OMV on it. I write new data / add movie files very infrequently so I could use the old NAS with the 2x4TB as the backup and just power it on when I need to run an RSync.
-Is there a better setup to fulfill the low energy consumption and high transfer rate NAS requirement (ie. is the BananaPi sufficient?)
-Does OMV run on the Orange Pi Plus 2? The information from the forums on OrangePi wasn't very complete and it was not clear if the OMV image available on SimpleNAS actually works like it does on the Raspberry Pi.
-Is the single 8TB NAS drive practical? Anyone have any experience with it?
Any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
-J