Episode 2 – Getting Started With Network Attached Storage

Building a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we’re looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached storage options like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and Proxmox, plus dishing out some practical tips about why you’d want a NAS in the first place, some advice on hardware requirements, best practices for backups, and more.

FOSS projects for running your own NAS that we mentioned in this episode include:

OpenMediaVault:

TrueNAS:

Proxmox:

And some of the turnkey hardware solutions you might pair with these projects are:

Synology:

QNAP:

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