NAS operating system

[ted tech]

What operating system to use for a homade NAS?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What do you want to do. I'd personally run centos

[ted tech]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you want to do. I'd personally run centos

I currently use FreeNAS, however it is not always the best.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ted tech said:

I currently use FreeNAS, however it is not always the best.

What don't you like about it?

[ted tech]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you want to do. I'd personally run centos

honestly just a NAS for video storage

[ARikozuM]

I'm liking CentOS, though I use UnRAID for the Steam server.

[ted tech]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What don't you like about it?

the permissions are a pain for me, it wont allow me to create folders

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ted tech said:

the permissions are a pain for me, it wont allow me to create folders

 

You can change permissions so you have full access. 

[pagani123]

linus seems to love UnRAID

[ted tech]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can change permissions so you have full access. 

im not sure how, because everytime i change somehting, i end up not being able to use it

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ted tech said:

im not sure how, because everytime i change somehting, i end up not being able to use it

 

I think you can go under the storage settings and give yourselff full permissions.

[Shura]

On 2017-01-04 at 10:53 AM, ted tech said:

What operating system to use for a homade NAS?

OpenMediaVault - after fiddling with many different NAS O; I found OMV to be the best option for me. my media server has been up and running for almost an year now, I travel a lot for work and in a different country atm but have access to all my media through emby on OMV and files through OwnCloud.

[conspiravision]

Personally I use Centos 7 with a Samba server running and shared to my windows computer.  FreeNAS is well known and good as well.  People will tell you ECC with FreeNAS on gfs or something crazy; I've been using cifs+a cron job of an rsync to an external HDD every night for years now and haven't had a problem.

[aspoelst]

I actually run Ubuntu 16.04-- I also use this machine to transcode mkv videos into mp4's... It works quite well using samba to connect to my macbook...