jmartell
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jmartell reacted to LIGISTX in NAS Software Recommendations
Just to set expectations here, getting a NAS will almost certainly not be as easy as cloud based services provided by trillion dollar companies (google, apple, Amazon, etc). While it isn’t very difficult for us techie folks here on LTT, if the requirement is ease of use for a family, depending on everyone’s level of tech literacy and willingness to learn new things, it may not be ease to use.
Truenas and unraid can do everything you would want and more, but it won’t be a single plane of glass interface, you will use nextcloud or owncloud for phone access to pictures, which isn’t quite as well developed as Google’s software, you will have SMB shares on your PC’s to access files, and you will need to set up a VPN on laptops and such to remote in when your are not at home to be able to access said SMB shares. It’s all very do-able, and not that difficult to do, and it’s fun to dabble with, but when requirement 1 is ease of use for people beyond just yourself, google drive may be an easier solution.
Just my two cents. It’s always good to have a full understanding and level set expectations 🙂
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jmartell reacted to m9x3mos in NAS Software Recommendations
Like others, I would recommend truenas scale. I have been using it since beta and it is very good now. You can run nextcloud for online storage and there are apps for mobile device sync. There are also a large number of other apps available that you can install on it. They are run like dockers so it is easy to maintain as well. Plus there is a large number of tutorials as well for it and you can setup a reverse proxy with it for an added layer of security since it would need to be open to the internet.
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jmartell reacted to Klinkaroo in NAS Software Recommendations
I've been using unRAID for a month, so take my comment with a grain of salt. But from my research, TrueNAS and unRAID were my two best options. I went with unRAID simply because I can't afford all the drives I will eventually want and added capacity is easier with unRAID. Trying to expand TrueNAS, because of ZFS, is more work.
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jmartell reacted to leadeater in NAS Software Recommendations
TrueNAS and NextCloud or OwnCloud is probably the sort of thing you want
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jmartell reacted to Bdavis in NAS Software Recommendations
TrueNAS and unRAID are the two best options. I prefer TrueNAS Scale. The functionality you seek will depend on the apps that are available. Both TrueNAS Scale and unRAID use Docker. Look into what apps are available to see if it will meet your needs. I know there are some specific apps for photos, but haven't used them myself so I can't speak to their functions.
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jmartell reacted to Dravinian in Trusted sources for written tech product reviews
There is a sub forum here for reviews...I only came across it by accident the other day, let me find it again....
https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/25-member-reviews/
Whether you consider members of this forum reputable....well that is another question entirely
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jmartell reacted to gloop in Trusted sources for written tech product reviews
Gamers Nexus for all things hardware.
For keyboards mainly YT/reddit, not many blogs, etc for them around.
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jmartell reacted to zeusthemoose in Trusted sources for written tech product reviews
Pudget systems writes great articles about tech. I don’t know if they do reviews though.
Anandtech is also a great site