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New to NAS - What are the recommended solutions? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I am thinking about getting myself a NAS to host mainly Immich and Plex. Got a couple of questions for the experienced folk;

Is Synology the best/easiest way to start? If not, what are the closest alternatives?
What OS should i go for? OMV, Synology's OS, or UNRAID?
Mainly gonna host Plex/Jellyfin, and Synology Photos/Immich - not decided quite what solutions to go for.

Appricate any tips :sparkles:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because you can't use typical back product software. If you do it the right way, you're using my ZFS send and receive to another machine running ZFS which significantly adds to cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an extremely silly reason not to use a specific tool: Tool A provides an alternative way to do X, but I want to do X with some other tool B (that'll also work with tool A), so I won't be using tool A.

Send/receive may or may not be the right answer for backing up even on ZFS, depending on what exactly you want to achieve. It's really nice when it is what you want, but it's no panacea (and certainly no reason to avoid ZFS, since its use it 100% optional).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really don't get your meaning of my apparent silly reason. You can't use Acronis, Veeam, or other typical backup products with ZFS. My point is this is a barrier to entry. I disagree that it's not silly for a home user to build another expensive NAS just to do ZFS send and receive which would be the proper way.

I don't consider backups optional.