Some thoughts: I think you would need Debian 9 installed 1st, then OMV 4.
It looks like your SBC board is supporting Debian: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/downloads, scroll down till you see the Debian package. Have a look on their wiki also.
Check the Technodad installation steps here: https://forum.openmediavault.o…?postID=202577#post202577
This should work.
Technodad is pointing to this thread here: https://forum.openmediavault.o…OMV4-on-Debian-9-Stretch/.
I was also looking for for something similar and found few options.
I got Fractal Arc Mini R2 https://www.fractal-design.com…es/arc-series/arc-mini-r2, it's micro ATX / mini ITX compatible, 6 x HDDs, 2 x SSD.
It's kind of "mini tower" case, quite big if you would compared it with a 4-6 bay NAS like QNAP or Synology, but after watching several Youtube reviews & comparisons, this case got me.
I have not finished yet my OMV final configuration as I'm still waiting for my CPU to be delivered.
@geaves: I was thinking also to try to install OMV on an SD card and see if I can boot from it after the OMV installation. Though, having OMV installed on this Lenovo laptop is just a temporary solution, to get used to OMV and see if it fits my long term NAS solution needs.
As mentioned, I have OMV as a VM under Win 10 on this laptop and I can play with it and I assume that, once I'll have available all the HW I planned to use to build my NAS, I will not have this "booting" issue and everything will go smooth.
@KM0201: thanks for the tip, I also saw the TDL's "Installation and Setup Videos - Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced" thread over the last week end 
Usually, my "play time / free time" starts after 10 PM or sometime during the weekends...:)
By the way, in the attached pic you can see what I'm referring to regarding the SSD not seen in BIOS as a bootable device after OMV has been installed on it.
From what I have searched for that Lenovo, when you say it's not seen is that within the Boot Option Menu?
Yep, neither there, nor in the BIOS Setup - Information menu. If I format it as NTFS in Windows and insert it back, then it appears in BIOS and I can install Windows, for instance. But if I install on it OMV from a USB stick, the installation goes smooth till the end, when you have to remove the USB and reboot to start configuring OMV. This is when the SSD becomes again "not detected" in BIOS and I get no booting source error.
Till I'll build my new NAS with the new HW I have though OMV installed as a VM under Win 10, so I can play with it and get used to it. I will try FTP or Nextcloud for that HP office laptop and see what I get. I really need to back up my personal docs from this laptop to the NAS, it would have been nice to simply map a network folder.
Thanks & Cheers
1st of all, thanks for sharing your thoughts @KM0201.
Regarding the motherboard, indeed, I did chose a Gigabyte one based on my past experience with products from these guys. I filtered the motherboards in my search by the number of SATA III ports, format (mATX) and CPU socket. Though I can pick & choose another one, now that you are saying that for a NAS specific use case it would make a difference an Intel NIC rather than a Realtek one, so I found like ASRock B360M-HDV might be a good alternative (Intel NIC).
Regarding my Lenovo BIOS: I was also looking for such "secure boot" option, which becomes visible only if I choose "boot mode" to "UEFI" (instead of "legacy support"), then in "Security settings I can see a "Secure boot option", which is is anyway "disabled". BIOS is quite old, I saw a new BIOS on Lenovo support portal, though I won't flash it.
I thought initially that this SSD is broken, but as soon as I format it as NTFS, it's seen instantly in the damn BIOS, but if I install OMV, which is formatting it as EXT4 then BIOS will not see it... I saw earlier today on a blog or something a guy with same issue and he reported he managed somehow to install Linux, so I'm thinking to try the option of installing Debian 9 1st, but I guess I might face the same format issue (if this is the issue...)
Anyway, I inserted back the other SSD I have with Win 10 and the Oracle VM+OMV and at least I can play this way. I also tested that I can see/copy/delete data over WiFi for now with another Lenovo laptop (B590, Win 10 also), so 1st toy to play with.
But I remain with the other issue of not being able to do the same with an HP laptop which is in the domain of the company I'm working for. (that I cannot change it not because I don't have admin rights, but because if I change the domain/workgroup, I won't be able to use it in my office network)
Any tips & tricks that I could try?
Thanks again & cheers
Hi guys,
New user here, happy to say hello to everyone in the forum. This is my 1st post here and it might be a bit long one, so bear with me, as I have some questions at the end…
I have been willing for quite some good time to either buy a pre-built NAS, like Synology, QNAP or Asustor, or build it by myself. I read dozens of articles, reviews & other stuff about both areas and I came to the conclusion that I would better build my own NAS.
End of last year, together with my son, we built what was supposed to be a gaming/video-photo editing/NAS desktop system; well, it became only his gaming/video-photo editing system, while the NAS part of it became a no-go for me… it’s his toy in the end …
So back to the DIY phase, which I always enjoyed.
All my current stuff is stored on external USB HDDs, different sizes (500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB) and tons of (still) DVSs, but also the internal HDDs inside my laptops/desktops. I know, not synchronized…
I had some of my HDDs attached to the USB port of my router, but it was not a good option for me, one of the HDDs crashed after a power outage and the read/write speed was quite awful.
Now what I want out of it:
Through all my readings about which OS would suit my needs (and tech skills), I came to the conclusion that OMV would best suit them. Now about the HW part, I read also quite many stuff either about different SBCs, or classic PC based architecture. What I have came up with, as a 1st shortlist of HW would be (but not yet concluded):
As I have one of my Windows 10 Pro laptops laying around for quite some time, after watching TechnoDadLife’s video tutorials on this forum, I said what the heck, why waiting till I’ll have all the HW available.
This Lenovo G50-70 laptop has 2 hard disks, one SSD (120 GB used for OS) and one HDD (1 TB, used for storage, for now it’s only an empty NTFS formatted HDD)
So I prepared a 32 GB USB stick with the OMV 4 iso, I removed the bootable Wind SSD from my Lenovo G50-70 and replaced it with the Adata SU650 120 GB SSD. OMV 4 installation went smooth till the last step: remove the USB stick to boot the OMV from the SSD: well, the SSD was not seen as a bootable drive, instead it wanted to boot from LAN…
I entered BIOS and there surprise: my SSD where I installed OMV was not seen in BIOS. I tried any BIOS settings (I can post screenshots), though I cannot boot into OMV to set it up. Reading on some Lenovo forums it somehow look like it’s stuck with Windows, many people were asking how to install Linux on it.
To still play with OMV, for now I installed it as a VM under Win 10 Home, but I could not test it yet if any of my other PCs can see the shared folder I created on the 2nd HDD (the 1 TB one), it was quite late last night when I finished installing OMV this way.
Now the part of my burning questions:
Thank you all & cheers
