I've almost wrapped up another video discussing this because I felt it best to dive into it in a bit more detail - hopefully I can release that in the next few days, but essentially I did evaluate TrueNAS, OMV and Unraid but I felt like I wouldn't use 95% of their feature set. I don't want RAID (or their equivalent) because I mainly want the maximum total storage capacity possible - and RAID would reduce this. I also don't think I'd benefit from snapshots for example. Basically I'm happy enough tinkering myself, and I still have some data redundancy (media is still on the SD cards) and data protection (via nightly off-site backups). I have thought about the decision a lot though, and would welcome comments. I'll try and get that other video out soon too, so I can expand on these points a bit more 🙂
Man, now I really want to build a home server... Any reason not to go with windows if all I want is to use it as a JellyFin/PleX & media storage server? I have 0 experience with linux or anything non-Windows.
Heh, glad to have given you the spark 🤣 Windows would work fine too - I agree. The NTFS file system is pretty good, and Windows has got a lot better in recent years for this sort of use. And especially if that's what you're most familiar with, there's no need to get confused with a random Linux distro IMO 🙂
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WHy didn't you use UNRaid or OpenMediaVault?
It would be simpler to setup using the GUI, and gives different options to setup things.
I've almost wrapped up another video discussing this because I felt it best to dive into it in a bit more detail - hopefully I can release that in the next few days, but essentially I did evaluate TrueNAS, OMV and Unraid but I felt like I wouldn't use 95% of their feature set. I don't want RAID (or their equivalent) because I mainly want the maximum total storage capacity possible - and RAID would reduce this. I also don't think I'd benefit from snapshots for example. Basically I'm happy enough tinkering myself, and I still have some data redundancy (media is still on the SD cards) and data protection (via nightly off-site backups). I have thought about the decision a lot though, and would welcome comments. I'll try and get that other video out soon too, so I can expand on these points a bit more 🙂
@whatwhat-777 I released the more detailed explanation of my choices here: ruclips.net/video/XVRVIorYssw/видео.html
Man, now I really want to build a home server...
Any reason not to go with windows if all I want is to use it as a JellyFin/PleX & media storage server? I have 0 experience with linux or anything non-Windows.
Heh, glad to have given you the spark 🤣 Windows would work fine too - I agree. The NTFS file system is pretty good, and Windows has got a lot better in recent years for this sort of use. And especially if that's what you're most familiar with, there's no need to get confused with a random Linux distro IMO 🙂
I as told it is pronounced Deb-ian. It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra.
@@DrenDor100 ahhh that's interesting, thanks. That's good to know 🙂