I couldn't find the 'newbie alert' please introduce yourself section
Anyway having read some reviews and a lot of thread reading on here I am wondering if OMV would kill '2 birds with 1 stone' so to speak.
I currently have 2 Intel Servers, ex school servers, (I do IT support for a local school, and the old servers have to be disposed of ) one runs an open source NAS the other Ubuntu server 16.04 which in turn is set up for Emby.
The NAS has an Intel Xeon 3050 (2 Core) 2Gb Ram 2x250Gb and 2x1Tb drives, the Ubuntu server has an Intel Xeon X3220 (4 core) 4Gb Ram 2x250Gb and 2x1Tb drives.
As an interim my thoughts are use the Ubuntu set up increase the ram to double or triple, place all the 1Tb drives in the case and use an SSD or one of the may laptop drives I have to install OMV and Emby, thought being I could run the 4x1Tb drives as a RaidZ using zfs, or create 2 mirror vdevs and 1 zpool, or the obvious 2 mirror vdevs and 2 zpools. This is what I'm not sure of if I want to increase capacity later one.
The redundant server could then be turned into a snapraid at a later date.
Ok I have to back up the working data and run dban across the drives....wouldn't be the first time.
Many thanks for any pointers