Hello OMV users!
I've been using OpenMediaVault for a few months now, initially with an old Raspberry Pi and a dusty 1 TB USB external drive. The performance wasn't great, but it was functional enough for me to begin sorting through my old files.
About a month later, I decided it was time for an upgrade. I began to do research on cost effective NAS devices and decided that a thin-client would be my best option. I looked around until I came across the Wyse C90LEW. It features a 1.0 GHz VIA x86 CPU, 2 GB of on-board flash, 1 GB of RAM, 4 USB 2.0 ports, and a gigabit Ethernet port. It cost only $30 USD, and uses as much as 7 watts of electricity. I installed OpenMediaVault to the on-board flash, which is a bit tight but enough for a basic install. I made to sure setup OMV Extras too, in order to make use of the FlashMemory plugin.
Less than a month ago I purchased a 2 TB WD Elements external hard drive, since my old 1 TB WD My Book Essentials was beginning to show its age. It cost me $78 USD, and showed up quickly thanks to Amazon. Copying the partitions with GParted Live took a little over 8 hours over the USB 2.0 ports, averaging around 20 MB/s between the drives.
This image should give a nice idea of the amount of space I gained, note that there's another 320 GB partition not being shown.
Overall the configuration is definitely usable, and was worth the reasonable $108 investment to centralize and organize all of my data. I would like to thank the OpenMediaVault team for creating such a versatile system, and I can't wait for OMV 3.0 (the beta is amd64 only, unfortunately). I should post some pictures and perhaps some benchmarks shortly.
Thanks for reading!