The pricing is reasonable, but one issue is that they changed their pricing scheme recently to only give a year of updates for all but the costliest license. I was grandfathered in unless I upgrade my license, but it’s something to consider.
Interesting, I must have missed it when investigating. It seems a little “Linux power user”-y, though - is that accurate? It says for home office, but is it good for movies/music/etc hosting?
I can figure out how to get things done when I know the goal (I learned plenty of command-line, docker containers, etc setup with Unraid). So not a beginner. But to be honest, I can’t even understand if the features on this “features” page are things that are important to me because I don’t know enough acronyms and foundational knowledge, so it’s a little imposing.
Not OP but I use it as my nas for my jellyfin stack and run docker containers on it just like unraid. It is less plug and play than unraid. Specifically to mirror the unraid array on omv, but it can be done. I used this site a couple years ago, it appears to have been updated, but hopefully will help. https://perfectmediaserver.com/
It’s certainly not very user friendly in the initial setup. It took me quite a while to figure out how to set it up. But once that’s done, it works very well.
But the flash drive content is very minimal and in 2+ years of using it, anecdotally I haven’t had any problems. The cache drive is separate (I use an SSD for that in addition to my 3.5" HDDs), and once booted my understanding is the entire OS is in memory, so it isn’t a bottleneck. The OS flash drive is small and just settings, and one-click backup, so I don’t have anxiety over data loss.
I don’t regret building my home server with Unraid at all. It’s great, use any drives, don’t even have to be the same sizes.
https://unraid.net/
The pricing is reasonable, but one issue is that they changed their pricing scheme recently to only give a year of updates for all but the costliest license. I was grandfathered in unless I upgrade my license, but it’s something to consider.
I’m using Openmedievault and it works just fine. No need to spend money out put up with enshittification.
Interesting, I must have missed it when investigating. It seems a little “Linux power user”-y, though - is that accurate? It says for home office, but is it good for movies/music/etc hosting?
https://www.openmediavault.org/features.html
I can figure out how to get things done when I know the goal (I learned plenty of command-line, docker containers, etc setup with Unraid). So not a beginner. But to be honest, I can’t even understand if the features on this “features” page are things that are important to me because I don’t know enough acronyms and foundational knowledge, so it’s a little imposing.
Not OP but I use it as my nas for my jellyfin stack and run docker containers on it just like unraid. It is less plug and play than unraid. Specifically to mirror the unraid array on omv, but it can be done. I used this site a couple years ago, it appears to have been updated, but hopefully will help. https://perfectmediaserver.com/
It’s certainly not very user friendly in the initial setup. It took me quite a while to figure out how to set it up. But once that’s done, it works very well.
According to their site, the OS can only boot from a thumb drive. And if the drive fails you can only move the license to a new one once per year.
Why not allow it to boot from a small SSD or something?
I can’t say I understand the reasons for that.
But the flash drive content is very minimal and in 2+ years of using it, anecdotally I haven’t had any problems. The cache drive is separate (I use an SSD for that in addition to my 3.5" HDDs), and once booted my understanding is the entire OS is in memory, so it isn’t a bottleneck. The OS flash drive is small and just settings, and one-click backup, so I don’t have anxiety over data loss.