Unraid vs NextCloud

[leo]

Hi,

I wanted to do a home server to ''de-google'' myself, since I have 60tb and ryzen 7 1700 laying around.

 

I was wondering what would be easier ( im not a pro in linux ) , better usage and addon wise, and security wise ; to install unraid then the Nextcloud addon or install directly nextcloud ?

 

thanks!

[Sequence211]

NextCloud is not an operating system, so it will have to be installed onto something. 

Can be windows, linux or as you say, unraid.

 

[Bacon soup]

you can install nextcloud on almost any operating system so pick whatever you want. I find Nextcloud is not good with large files like movies and large binaries, so you might want a NAS system like freeNAS or unraid.

[Mihle]

Just a note: i gaver har some problems with Nextcloud about playing videos, that it stutters/seems like it doesn't load fast enough to be played, tho transfering the video to the device now Nextcloud is fast and playing video directed from NAS (Unraid) is very fast, so I don't know. Images and stuff works fine tho.

[Sequence211]

Videos are not streamed from nextcloud, as far as i know, so you have to download the whole video before trying to play it.

[leo]

11 hours ago, Struck said:

NextCloud is not an operating system, so it will have to be installed onto something. 

Can be windows, linux or as you say, unraid.

 

Was mostly speaking on linux vs unraid.

But seem easier to simply use Unraid.

 

do you know if it's possible to allocate only 1-2 HDD to nextcloud, and make it impossible for hacker to reach the others ?

[2FA]

They are two different things with different goals. Nextcloud provides a self hosted cloud alternative while unRAID provides easy network file shares. You can setup Nextcloud with a reverse proxy to access it anywhere easily whereas unRAID shares are local network only.

8 minutes ago, leo said:

do you know if it's possible to allocate only 1-2 HDD to nextcloud, and make it impossible for hacker to reach the others ?

unRAID can do this but the disks won't be part of the array at all.

[leo]

1 hour ago, 2FA said:

You can setup Nextcloud with a reverse proxy to access it anywhere easily whereas unRAID shares are local network only.

ah perfect ! exactly what I wanted to do!

Do you know if I can then move file from the nextcloud HDD to Unraid backup ?

[2FA]

29 minutes ago, leo said:

ah perfect ! exactly what I wanted to do!

Do you know if I can then move file from the nextcloud HDD to Unraid backup ?

Yes, you could make a simple script that uses, for example, rsync to duplicate the files onto the array.

[leo]

Thanks !hope all works well

[RealGenericEric]

I prefer for install it on FreeNAS in a jail because I like using zfs among other various things. The addons are a no go for me since they are always terribly out of date. https://www.samueldowling.com/2018/12/08/install-nextcloud-on-freenas-iocage-jail-with-hardened-security/ 

is a good guide.