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Toast-

99% sure OMV meets all my needs, but confirmation before I wipe my PC would be appreciated

I've been looking at a Synology NAS for a while, but I just realized that I have an old gaming PC currently not in use. Googling around led me here and it seems perfect for my needs.

On a single device I need to:

  • Host a Plex Media Server
  • Have my Sonarr/NZB Get downloads to save to the device
  • Backup photos
  • Run Home Assistant
  • Bonus points if I can run OctoPrint in Docker or something, but I could always use my Pi for that
  • Also bonus points if I can schedule cron jobs with little scripts, because Windows Task Scheduler is garbage, but it's not really necessary.

The computer I'm using should be more than adequate spec-wise, I'll just have to pick up some extra hard drives because I'd like to use Raid 0.

OMV should be able to handle all of this, right?

Posted Apr 3, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

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kuivpaju•

Yes to all of the above

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Toast-OP•

That's fantastic, thanks! Looks like I've got a new project during quarantine!

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Ken0201•

You might give it all a crack in a virtual machine before you go nuking everything (unless you're just dying to nuke this PC)... but it really should be able to do all that.

Check in over at the main forum, it is a wealth of info... https://forum.openmediavault.org

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Toast-OP•

I'm not too concerned about nuking the PC as there's nothing important on it, it would just be a pain to get Windows back if this was a total no-go. I think that hosting Plex alone would be enough to make it worthwhile for me, so I'll just give it a shot.

I appreciate the suggestion though, and I'll go do some reading on the forums.

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Ken0201•

What are you planning to use as an OS drive? Remember by default, this drive will just hold the OS, and not be available by services (You can set it up, but it's more an advanced install). So using some huge 10tb drive for the OS, would be crazy. 16gig flash drive (provided you install the flash-memory plugin).. small SSD's, maybe an old laptop hard drive... I've used all with success.

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10leej•

Using raid 0 on a NAS is both stupid and pointless. You don't need the performance and a failed drive means you lost everything. Just use Raid 1

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Ken0201•

Raid 1 is even dumber, unless you absolutely need second by second mirroring.

Just set up a simple rsync job that syncs the two drives a couple times a day, and leaves the drives independent. That should be more than sufficient for most media servers/home servers.

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Toast-OP•

Awesome, I was wondering if that was possible but hadn't looked into it just yet. I'm assuming it would be simple to only sync certain folders, so that's absolutely perfect for my needs.

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Ken0201•

I've used rsync in place of raid1 for.. 7-8yrs? Works flawlessly. I used to have a single job that ran 3x a day, then I realized that was a bit excessive. Now that job runs every morning at 8am (so I'm usually in bed after working all night).. If you set everything up right, you can do this with just one rsync job, or set up multiple ones.. however you want. It's very easy with the rsync plugin

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newpost74•

Sooo... snapraid?

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Ken0201•

Admittedly I don't use snapraid, but doesn't it require at least 3 drives? (2 data and a parity). I'm strictly speaking on syncing 2 data drives.

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newpost74•

Nope

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Criss_Crossx•

I can't speak for the docker functions, but I use OMV for NAS purposes only and I have zero issues!

Good luck!

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