Nas OS recommendations

[TheDutchMC04]

I have a Iomega StorCenter ix2, but I formatted the drives and I lost my OS. I don't know wich OS to install and how to, I have 2x 2TB drives from Seagate. The NAS is about 2 years old.

Could someone recommend some OS's?

 

Thanks (:

[MorganO]

Just now, TobiZY said:

I have a Iomega StorCenter ix2, but I formatted the drives and I lost my OS. I don't know wich OS to install and how to, I have 2x 2TB drives from Seagate. The NAS is about 2 years old.

Could someone recommend some OS's?

 

Thanks (:

freenas seems pretty good

[TheDutchMC04]

How do I install it? My nas has no interface and no options for HDMI etc. And Freenas needs 8 Gb, my Nas Doesn't  even have 2gb

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Freenas. Open media vault,centos what specs?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TobiZY said:

How do I install it? My nas has no interface and no options for HDMI etc

No screen? No serial port? Then get the manufacturer to but the stock images on. 

[TheDutchMC04]

CPU: Marvell 1 GHz

RAM: DRAM 256 MB

 

 

[TheDutchMC04]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

No screen? No serial port? Then get the manufacturer to but the stock images on. 

Is only has 3x USB 2.0, 1 Ethernet and 2x SATA. It is accesible trough SSH tough

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, TobiZY said:

Is only has 3x USB 2.0, 1 Ethernet and 2x SATA. It is accesible trough SSH tough

Can you ssh into it now?  Installing a normal os is a pain. Is there a USB stick in it for booting?

[TheDutchMC04]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you ssh into it now?  Installing a normal os is a pain. Is there a USB stick in it for booting?

I can try inserting a USB with Ubuntu, but it has to boot from the hard drives in RAID 1, at least that's what I read on a forum (https://zepman.tweakblogs.net/blog/3552/iomega-ix2-200-bad-flash-recovery-and-hdd-replacement.html). I think I can get in it trough  SSH.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TobiZY said:

I can try inserting a USB with Ubuntu, but it has to boot from the hard drives in RAID 1, at least that's what I read on a forum (https://zepman.tweakblogs.net/blog/3552/iomega-ix2-200-bad-flash-recovery-and-hdd-replacement.html). I think I can get in it trough  SSH.

Take the drives out and see if it's uefi of mbr boot. You can probably install the os on anouter computer and put the drives in.

[TheDutchMC04]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Take the drives out and see if it's uefi of mbr boot. You can probably install the os on anouter computer and put the drives in.

It is not UEFI boot. I just pulled a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from my server and inserted it, what do I do now? (I'm not that great with OS Stuff)

[Electronics Wizardy]

13 minutes ago, TobiZY said:

It is not UEFI boot. I just pulled a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from my server and inserted it, what do I do now? (I'm not that great with OS Stuff)

Well you hope it boots from the drive and find it on the network. 

[KenjiUmino]

22 minutes ago, TobiZY said:

It is accesible trough SSH tough

if you can access it through SSH then there must be some form of OS on there that is still working. 

 

we are talking about something like this:

 

 

right? 

 

this is not the kind of device you can simply plug a usb stick in and install some random OS on it.

 

you gotta have the firmware / os from the manufacturer. 

 

maybe this helps you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[harveylong26]

For our work server, we use FreeNAS which is great!

For my personal home media server, I use OpenMediaVault which again is pretty good too.

 

For PLEX, OMV works pretty well. It has all the plugins right out the box and the WebUI is pretty easy to get your head around. It's based on Debian too which is a pretty easy OS to get used to, whereas FreeNAS is FreeBSD.