Posts by aviast

    What is the content of /var/lib/openmediavault/cron.d/userdefined-f8de5fb4-831a-4396-b34e-3c0dd54155f2?


    That script must be explicitly trying to read .bashrc (which should be in $HOME) but it's not behaving well when it can't find that file.


    This script is being run as the user omv so you could create an empty .bashrc to see if that resolves the issue. Log in as omv and type: touch $HOME/.bashrc.

    I've never had a NAS before so a lot of this is new to me. My wife and I decided to get rid of all our DVDs, to free up some space, so I've been ripping them over the last week. Our TV (Hisense) only supports Plex so that's one decision that is made for us. I was originally planning to get a Synology NAS, but this year has been hard on us financially, so it was time to get creative and find the cheapest possible solution...


    Today my HP EliteDesk 800 G2 arrived. This is a refurbished unit I managed to pick up for $85 (Australian dollars). It's supposed to be "small form factor" (SFF) but it's actually not much smaller than a standard desktop. I needed a chassis that would hold two 3.5" HDDs - which is not commonly found in the SFF world - so I'm not complaining. This is the "enterprise" model that includes an optical drive, as an added bonus, and a 240Gb SSD with Windows 10 pre-installed... but I will soon be replacing that with OMV.


    Thank God for Black Friday sales... I was able to get two Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3.5" NAS Hard Drives for $134 each. They're on the way and as soon as they arrive I'll be installing them and setting them up as a RAID 1 mirrored array.


    So, here I am. For a total outlay of $353, not much more than the cost of a diskless Synology NAS, I will soon (hopefully!) have a device capable of serving up all our movies, photos, and music.


    A couple of questions:

    • There is currently a "25% off Lifetime Plex Pass" deal - is this worth it?
      • Reading through the Plex Pass features list it's difficult for me to see what I'm paying for (other than hardware transcoding, which I hope to avoid by using handbrake to transcode all my DVDs to H.264 MP4s.)
    • What filesystem is everyone using these days?
      • I assume the default will be ext4 but btrfs includes support for RAID as part of the filesystem - is that worth looking at?