Hello,
I'm planning to create my homemade NAS with OMV 3.
My hardware :
- motherboard : Gigabyte Z270 wifi;
- CPU : I3 7100T kabylake;
- 16 GB RAM DDR4 ;
- Case : Fractal Node 304 ;
- 2 x 4TB HDD segate (+ maybe 2 x 2TB WD Red from a previous NAS)
Use of the NAS will be :
- Media centre for Kodi or Plex connected via smb to a Xiaomi MIBOX (Kodi or Plex on the box connected via SMB to the movies and series) + Sickrage + openvpn
- data storage for work : i need secure access to this data : sensitive data will be store on the NAS : sp maybe encryption on disk and nextcloud for external acces with ssl encryption.
- share data, calendar... with my wife ;
First, i read a lot about the OS : FREENAS, NAS4FREE, UBUNTU SERVER, ROCKSTOR, OMV...
I tried all this OS via VMs. I 'm not sure wich OS i prefer but :
- i know that ZFS is a great FS but i'm not sure that i will need such a FS for my use. Further more, since i had a smal amount of disk right now, i will maybe extend my pool soon and i read ZFS couldn't handle it.
So i decide that maybe the best choice was to use BTRFS as FS as it's seems to handle that. I use ubuntu server with BTRFS + webmin. work's great. But i prefer omv webinterface. So i wanted to know if handling BTRFS with OMV was easy ? And if it was possible to extend the pool easily ? Or, is it better to install Ubuntu server or a classic debian then OMV ontop ?
I also heard about XFS but i didn't find many explanation...
Then i read about the RAID.
As i only have 2 disk right know i'm thinking the best is to go for a RAID 1 system ? is it the better choice ?
Concerning my data i was planning to use Nextcloud. Is it fully compatible with OMV ? Should i use the plugin (if there is one) or install it as a standalone app via apt-get install ?
Regarding my media center, i always have problem with the sickrage plugin that doesn't allow me to get the update (i got this message "you're branch is ahead of master...". Is that just me ? same question. Should i use the plugin or tried to install it manually ?
A bunch of question
THx for reading me.