Hi everyone,
Hope this forum is as friendly as everyone says. Looks good so far.
I'm very technical but new to the world of servers in the past few years. I decided instead of sharing everything out via my desktop, for my home media server, to just have a dedicated machine to handle that, downloading, storage, etc. So, this server is very much a media unit serving up audio and video content, mostly to XBMC machines around the house. For the past 2-3 years I've used FreeNAS but am quickly realizing it's more than I need and time for a change.
I don't need backups of all my video so I don't have a lot of interest in redundancy (I'll back up music and photos myself). FreeNAS was so big on ZFS but I didn't use anything but JBOD anyway and FreeNAS seems needlessly complex and bloated at times, so here I am.
So, quick question - Is it easy for me to set up my new OMV box as a JBOD (lose one drive, lose only that data) and what file format would you recommend for the drives? I'm going to have to manually copy files over and blow away the drives to get away from ZFS, so it'll take time, just want to make sure I am using the best format on my 7 hard disks to do this.
Thanks, very excited to move into OMV.
B.