Hi guys!
Over the years I gathered quite a few computers (mostly laptops), some I bought, some I was given, some I built myself with old and new parts.
I still have the first NAS I ever bought, a QNAP TS-212P but it's very slow and was on sale when I bought it precisely because of that. I now use it as a backup server for 2 of my PCs. It was originally my main NAS, then a backup NAS for my Synology NAS. Now I use it as a backup NAS for the data on most of my PCs.
My main NAS is now a Synology DS218 with a 8 TB HDD holding all of my data and a 2TB HDD for other stuff like downloads and data sync.
I also have a backup NAS I built using new parts running Openmediavault that backups my Synology 8 TB HDD every night on 4 4TB HDDs in a RAID10 array.
I'm thinking of making it my main NAS and backup its data with the Synology NAS instead of what I'm currently doing. From day 1 I was hesitant on using FreeNAS vs OMV. I opted for OMV for its ease of use and I always heard FreeNAS needed 8 GB of RAM (which was the RAM quantity I originally had in it but I somehow ended up with a total of 32 GB due to an Amazon delivery mistake) + 1 GB for every TB of data. I know it can use less RAM but now I have plenty of it I wonder if I couldn't use FreeNAS on that backup NAS instead of OMV. Plus, FreeNAS seems more secure and reliable than OMV but I don't know FreeBSD at all while I know Debian pretty well which OMV is based on.
Any advice? Plus, I don't think I can simply replace my OMV install on my NAS' SSD with FreeNAS. How can I do that without wiping the data on my RAID array, if even possible?
Thanks in advance.
My setup on my DIY NAS is the following:
Mobo: MSI H370M Bazooka
CPU: Intel Core i3 8100
System storage: WD Green 120 GB M.2 SSD
RAM: I don't remember what brand or if all sticks are the same brand, but I have a total of 32GB of DDR4
Storage: 4 4 TB WD RED HDDs in a RAID10 array.
Over the years I gathered quite a few computers (mostly laptops), some I bought, some I was given, some I built myself with old and new parts.
I still have the first NAS I ever bought, a QNAP TS-212P but it's very slow and was on sale when I bought it precisely because of that. I now use it as a backup server for 2 of my PCs. It was originally my main NAS, then a backup NAS for my Synology NAS. Now I use it as a backup NAS for the data on most of my PCs.
My main NAS is now a Synology DS218 with a 8 TB HDD holding all of my data and a 2TB HDD for other stuff like downloads and data sync.
I also have a backup NAS I built using new parts running Openmediavault that backups my Synology 8 TB HDD every night on 4 4TB HDDs in a RAID10 array.
I'm thinking of making it my main NAS and backup its data with the Synology NAS instead of what I'm currently doing. From day 1 I was hesitant on using FreeNAS vs OMV. I opted for OMV for its ease of use and I always heard FreeNAS needed 8 GB of RAM (which was the RAM quantity I originally had in it but I somehow ended up with a total of 32 GB due to an Amazon delivery mistake) + 1 GB for every TB of data. I know it can use less RAM but now I have plenty of it I wonder if I couldn't use FreeNAS on that backup NAS instead of OMV. Plus, FreeNAS seems more secure and reliable than OMV but I don't know FreeBSD at all while I know Debian pretty well which OMV is based on.
Any advice? Plus, I don't think I can simply replace my OMV install on my NAS' SSD with FreeNAS. How can I do that without wiping the data on my RAID array, if even possible?
Thanks in advance.
My setup on my DIY NAS is the following:
Mobo: MSI H370M Bazooka
CPU: Intel Core i3 8100
System storage: WD Green 120 GB M.2 SSD
RAM: I don't remember what brand or if all sticks are the same brand, but I have a total of 32GB of DDR4
Storage: 4 4 TB WD RED HDDs in a RAID10 array.