Windows or OMV?

Ansem · 3. Juli 2016

Hi at all guys.
I'm building a NAS with a pentium g4400,8gb of ram and chipset h170 for the raid1 hardware support.
What I need to do with this nas is:
- share the hard drive on my lan, maybe on internet one day. Still not sure about it
- run a plex server
- download things with torrent
- run a small virtual machine

Now I was thinking about which os was the best suited for this: OMV, windows 10 or windows server 2012? I already have free licence for windows 10 and 2012 thanks to university, so the price is not a problem.
what do you would suggest to use, or even avoid, and why?

tinh_x7 · 4. Juli 2016

I'm using OMV as a host, it does all the things that you listed.
You can use Syncthing/webdav/remoteshare or NextCloud/seafile to share your files.
It has Virtualbox that you can use a virtual machine.
There a few torrent plugins too.

wexcide · 4. Juli 2016

OMV is capable of doing everything you want. You will get the most bang for your buck running OMV vs Windows in terms of performance.

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