YvanSep 3, 2024

Dug out an old work PC to build into a NAS, it's basically the perfect form factor (not too big) ... I go to plug it into a monitor so I can install a fresh Debian on it...

It has two video connectors: VGA and bloody Display Port.

Display Port?! What madness is this.

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On the #NAS topic - my oldskool reflex is to grab a Debian image and run with it from zero. (I'm oldskool... my first Debian install was a 1.3.1 release, lol...)

In this modern era of special purpose Linux distros/flavours what's going to give me the most NAS features "out of the box" without me having to configure all of the things.

Ideally I'd like to also be able to run additional services too, immich is a key one I have my eye on.

I gather the cool kids use a #homelab hashtag these days?

Sep 3, 2024 at 6:48pmWeb
Show threadYvanSep 3, 2024
A little bit of self-#lmgtfu leads me to @openmediavault - which looks promising, with the bonus it's built on Debian.
Show threadYvanSep 3, 2024
Now BTRFS RAID-1 is confusing me. I'm generally a pretty boring EXT4 on Linux Raid kinda guy... I had a stint of using ZFS for various systems over a decade ago... but I barely remember it really. Thought I'd have a poke at the new kid on the block.
Show threadJamesBSep 3, 2024
@yvan I'm so old now I thought ZFS *was* the NKOTB.
Show threadYvanSep 3, 2024
@mw1cgg I used to do quite a bit of Solaris based work, so had fairly early exposure to it.
Show threadJamesBSep 3, 2024
@yvan Ah, that would make more sense to me then. It wasn't open source back then.
Show threadJamesBSep 3, 2024
@yvan I'm doing this at the moment and I am doing your way.
Show threadYvanSep 3, 2024

@mw1cgg just building it from base Debian?

I'm kinda leaning that way, though downloading an Open Media Vault image at the moment as it doesn't hurt to install it and have a poke at that.

I kind of feel more comfortable about not relying on some middle-man distro flavour, but OTOH I like the idea of the convenience. (And I presume under the hood it's just going to be normal Linux raid setup for discs so I can always blat the OS if it annoys me lol.)

Show threadJamesBSep 3, 2024
@yvan TBH I haven't touched the NAS yet as it doesn't exist and I'm still looking for appropriate hardware for it but I have been doing everything from base Debian lately as it's far less hassle than installing fudgesocket on docker with the spazelfiek entensions and then changing my systemdoob to include the frenzelfrob modules while maintaining compatibility with the other kuntyfrob and insanetwat setup.
Show threadYvanSep 3, 2024

@mw1cgg yeah, I just cannot get along with Docker/containerised stuff...

End of the day all I need a NAS to do is provide NFS and perhaps SMB (probably not) and sit there and have discs in it. It's not like I need a complex stack of software involved. It'd be good to have something automating SMART monitoring stuff I guess, I've never done much with SMART but probably should.