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.
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?
@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.)
@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.
Yvan
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