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Has anyone here switched from either of these, to OpenMediaVault? It's Debian-based, but didn't get much love when last posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048534

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I basically did. I used FreeNAS a long time ago. Went through various other incarnations for NAS including a QNAP device. OpenMediaVault was my dream come true, as I was able to install "headless" Crashplan on it easily being just vanilla Debian-based. Can't do that on FreeNAS/BSD (easily at least). Can't do that on NAS appliances like QNAP either (though I think there is a 3rd party unsupported plugin for Synology devices now).

I've been using OMV for over a year now and it works great. ZFS would be nice, but having vanilla Debian, and the "world" of Linux software, is better for me personally. I was running a RAID 6 originally with OMV (software raid, no hardware raid card) with an external enclosure. I really didn't need that much space, so downgraded my hardware to just mirrored 3TB data drives and a 80GB 2.5" system drive in a really low-powered machine.

Thanks Volker for OMV!

It appears to not support ZFS.

That's basically a no-go for me by itself.

Yeah ... if I was needing a bigger storage device, I'd really want ZFS too. The downsides though are it needs significantly more RAM and CPU-power for a good sized ZFS installation.

All depends on your needs.

Thanks. I just googled and found a how-to post: http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1260

Anyone using this method?

Huh. I switched from FreeNAS to OpenMediaVault to avoid ZFS. The FreeNAS crowd seems to have no interest in supporting SOHO setups and simple and effective backups. When their SOHO offline backup solution is to build a second NAS, instead of just support USB, I left and didn't look back. OpenMediaVault does all the same things, but actually handles USB in a non-stupid manner, and has a more friendly community.

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