I've been waiting for you to do something like this for ages, it's always interesting to see how other people setup their mini PC, what hardware and software they use.
Thank you Chris, you always take the time to explain the smaller things that others leave out in such videos, and that's very much appreciated! Another great video from a great tutor....
At 4:30 "4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds are go!" There is more to our beloved Chris than meets the eyes!! [I believe that he was referencing the stop motion cartoon Thunderbirds]
Just an absolutely fantastic tutorial. I've been looking for a Synology NAS alternative, and OMV seems the most user-friendly of the Linux based NAS systems. I also love Debian. 😊
Whenever I build a new pc or upgrade a previous system, I save the driver media or clone the original drive to a USB and tape those inside the case so I don't have to try to hunt down items in the future.
Suggestion for Part 2: - Setup MiniDLNA service - Setup Docker service and Portainer - Setup PLEX (in docker/portainer) - Setup Jellyfin (in docker/portainer) this will allow almost all devices to access the shared file system.
That could be a setup I'd like to use as a base for a Nextcloud instance. Sooo: My addition here would be "- Setup Nextcloud (in docker/portainer)" ... ☺
That was very useful, thanks! There is a lot to be said for mini PCs, particularly size, low wattage, and usually lack of fans. Those ducks need an agent.
I’m running OMV on a Lenovo mini PC. I have two 2TB SSDs for storage (mirrored using BTFS) and am using a USB flash drive for the system. If using a flash drive there is an add-on which needs to be installed to minimise writes, explained on the website installation section. It really helps if it is a fast flash drive otherwise installing updates and saving settings is very slow. I’m using a SanDisk Extreme Go 64GB which was £15 from CeX.
Love the Gerry Anderson reference with the Thunderbirds Are Go line LOL! I'm a big fan of his work. I was a very young boy when his shows were broadcast on US TV.
The latest version of this software did not work on my brand new (11/2023) BMAX B1 Pro purchased from Amazon. I had to drop back to the most recent stable version and now it is running fine. I'm sure that it will be fixed in the near future, but I don't want to waste more time on the bleeding edge. Thanks for another great video. This was my first implementation of OpenMediaVault and it will not be my last.
We are using OMV as well, it's great. For our use case such small PC wouldn't be sufficient because of it's limited expandibility. So our NAS is based on a traditional desktop PC with four high capacity hard drives. Everything is nicely contained in a single box.
Sunday greetings all! Chris, you and I are again in sync. Green on black in the terminal should be standard for “real” computing. Occasionally I get really nostalgic and use amber on black. And yes, ducks are always good in videos. Stay well my friend!
This was a great tutorial, thank you for putting this together. I was in search of a NAS solution for my usb external drive which I needed to access from various places. I ordered the bmax b1plus off ebay and followed your instructions precisely and was able to install it properly. A couple of places where I got stuck: the installer gives an option to connect with wifi and you can provide the ssid and password for the home wifi and connectivity was not an issue (the wifi interface drivers were built-in). The trouble is, after it reboots, following the installation, there's no internet connectivity over wifi. I had to connect to the console and use the command 'omv-firstaid' to bring up a config tool to setup my wifi credentials. After this it worked just fine. Another thing that I had to work with is that my usb drive was formatted HPFS or h+ filesystem. Apparently there's a limitation where NFS shares cannot be configured on top of an HPFS volume (seems that this is unsupported). I tried to format the usb thumb drive (the one I used to burn the iso image and boot off of) with ext3 filesystem and NFS seemed to work great for that. So I bought a new USB disk and will format it ext3 and start migrating my data onto that and then share it out as NFS share. Hopefully it will all work out in the end. Thanks again for this tutorial.
If you are happy with it, that's all that counts. And I can see some benefits to a Pi 400 as a NAS. Great passive cooling for silent operation as you say. Plus if you ever need to access it directly, the keyboard is built in, and there's HDMI on the back. :)
Excellent! Ive been running OMV for nearly 6 years now on my NAS. It works great. Ive actually been thinking about switching to a smaller platform with 2.5" SSDs or m.2 drives, so this video is right in line with what I'm considering doing.
What fun.. I remember the OMV video you did on the raspberry pi.. I set it up on it and it ran wonderfully.. here we are now in the world of mini pc’s which have big capabilities for a small cash outlay.. I appreciate your detail and the expanded test fly-outs. Thanks for the video..
Scarily timely - I was looking for just this sort of functionality but would never have come up with this solution which looks perfect for what I want. Many (!!!) thanks Chris.
Bish bash bosh, top level content 👍 What's most appealing about these kind of NAS and PC setups is their modularity and reduced costs, which together afford smart upgrade pathways and a sense of "future-proofing." Whilst raid is harder to implement, I cordially would suggest that it is superior to implement two of these platforms sans raid (coupled via rsync and jobs) than one bigco brand NAS that comes with vendor lock-in on both h/w and s/w. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends. Happy Sunday!
"Whilst raid is harder to implement, I cordially would suggest that it is superior to implement two of these platforms sans raid (coupled via rsync and jobs) than one bigco brand NAS that comes with vendor lock-in on both h/w and s/w." Actually that's not true. RAID works at a bit and disk sector level with built in real time error checking that should avoid file corruption happening - especially if you use a parity-based raid like RAID 5. rsync won't protect against file corruption - it will just replace the good file on the destination machine with the newly corrupt one. In simple terms, RAID has some file integrity protection but rsync does not. I use rsync all of the time, by the way, it's a fantastic application - but it's not designed for guaranteeing file integrity.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Thank you. Excellent points. I did not phrase my thought that well. Raid and rsync are different concepts and not interchangeable, you are correct. Warmest regards, friend.
The clearest and most efficient explanation in the whole internet about this topic, haha! No kidding. This is the blueprint of how the "How to" videos should be made. Thanks
I love how you have the time to explain things that anyone can understand. My older brother was a computer engineer (retired now). He was an arrogant POS who did contract work for NASA and if I had problems with my computer he would say either go read a book or go to college and learn how to fix it yourself.
Thanks for taking the time to explain a bit about OMV and installation. Most videos I've watched on the subject seem to gloss over it and next thing its up and running LOL. I've already got a QNAP NAS, but I wanted to have a play around with a mini PC and some open source NAS software like OMV or FreeNAS to see how it holds up to my QNAP.
I'll vouch for OMV. I have an old Asus prebuilt desktop on which I've been using it for years as a plex media server, network storage, various server tasks, etc. simple to set up, get what you want configured, and stable.
Whether it's with a good quality SBC, such as the Raspberry Pi (I'm not being objective here!) or a mini PC, it's becoming easier and easier for the average user (no negative connotation, on the contrary) to put together a file server, or even a small, high-performance multi-function server... We're back to the 'original dream' of the first digital creators: autonomy at affordable costs! Thank you for this excellent presentation! I think Lady Penelope would appreciate it!
Couldn’t click fast enough. You started me into the pi/omv universe with docker containers back in 2020. sadly the pi nas has been regulated to a backup role, I’ve moved onto building an awesome unraid server with truenas as a backup. I also run omv as a vm within unraid. Thx Chris, when I watched that first video back in 2020 I said I can do that!
I've been running OMV from a USB flash drive for years with no issues. Just need the flash drive plugin that significantly reduces writes. Having said that, it'll likely die now out of spite for making this comment :)
Another great video, thank you! I run OMV on a Pi Zero 2W with just one 256GB sd card. It works and performs OK. +5 MB/s over SMB. There is an addon that allows using root disk as share...
Thanks Chris for a brilliant video, I've certainly got some ideas for my use case, linking up Linux mint, Win 11 & Android to our network. Green text on a black screen it took me right back to 1986, we had an Amstrad word processor in our office better, than a typewriter. Last but not least a test video of a happy duck, a happy Sunday to you :)
Wow, this video contains both nostalgic green text on a black background and ducks! The ingredients for a perfect video. Looking forward to your next video!
Always nice to see another video on OpenMediaVault! And one featuring ducks too. Thanks as always! 🦆 As for 4:27, I got a story for you bunch this week; Once upon a time when I was a teenager, I tried giving "Thunderbirds" a shot. The puppets freaked me out to where [opens umbrella] I wound up shutting it off and giving the TV version of "Hitchhiker's Guide" a try instead. Bring on the virtual tomatoes. 😂
Excellent video instructional, Christopher! I'm teetering on the verge of escaping the online cloud with a NAS, and I'm also teetering on the verge of analysis paralysis in considering my options. But you always help me TREMENDOUSLY! Green text, black background = nestles me softly into my Commodore 64 comfort zone, my RUN magazine open before me, patiently entering "Oregon Trail" line-by-line because as a broke 14-year-old I hadn't been able to scrape up enough yet for my 1541 drive (with No2 pencil "legs" for ventilation). No, that wasn't the "factory" text color, but if you POKE a Commodore, you can work wonders.😉
I don't have a Bmax, but I have an Awow that looks exactly like it, and I think you may have provided enough information to resurrect this little computer. Thank you!
Thanks Chris for this very relevant video, which, as usual, you have explained in a way making it clear how to proceed. I am going to set up OMV, on an HP mini PC, using an external archival hard drive, for more reliable long-term storage. Thanks for all your hard work and informative videos.
Great Vid as always. For NAS i always advice using a proper Internal Static IP. Users should learn how to do that setup from their home router. After boot into OMV, they should check Date, region and Time Zone and Time itself. Reboot and check. Try to use 2 disks for Raid 1 at least and setup email notifications in case there is an error. Peace :-)
18:23 -- "Networking didn't used to be this easy." So true!! Anyone who ever did any networking work back in the '80s and '90s remembers the *nightmare* that networking used to be. It was more magic than science, it seemed. And **EXPENSIVE!!** Wow!! A network card for an IBM PC used to cost as much as the entire rest of the PC combined! And don't get me started on that coax mess, where the entire network was one super-long coax cable, winding around to each PC on an entire floor of the building. (Try tracking down a break in *that!)* And someone could simply not shut down their PC properly before turning it off, and that would crash the entire network! Definitely do not miss those days! 😂
Very useful topic, well explained. Thank you for making this useful software accessible for the general public. if i tried to implement this simply by reading about it i don't think i would be feel confident in setting up the network access correctly. your comforting step by step explanations makes all the difference.
being a network agents, even It been a while, it was good for a refresher in networking hell. they have been making things loads easer. UNIX has made things loads easer for years or SCO has. been thru all the networking hell going back to 1990's and learning all the in's and out's before 2000. there are a few things don't know because don't use in day to day work.
At the time I dont need this yet. However i foresee a time that I will. I've always wondered how to do this and now I know ! Thank you for taking the time to explain this, because for some reason I've always struggled on how to setup networks like this!
I liked the look and feel of OpenMediaVault but if I had Windows on the computer already, I would have just setup File Sharing using Windows. I think the Workstation flavors of Windows only allow 10 simultaneous connections but on a home network you're probably not going to get that many anyway.
A very good video, that can help beginners to setup their first NAS for local usage, next step will be to explain how to setup the NAS in order to access it from the internet (cloud usage), with security features like encryption, VPN, perhaps you have already covered these aspects on another video.
Thank you! OpenMediaVault seems to solve a problem I had with the concept of NAS for one or two decades... dealing with hardware or software failures. In the past a NAS used RAID to provide automatic backups. But it had a weak point: if the hardware - especially the NAS motherboard - went bad, you would end up with unreadable drives, completely defeating the whole point of a NAS as "rest of your life" data storage. And of course after a few years the manufacturer would end-of-life the NAS and you could no longer get replascement parts to salvage your data. But with OpenMediaVault the NAS looks to be software based, so if your hardware goes bad it seems that you simply get new hardware - of any brand and model - then install OpenMediaVault and configure it, move the drives to the new enclosure, and you got your data back! Is this correct? Additional question: in the does OpenMediaVault have services for things you would normally keep on a paid cloud server? For example webDAV, automatic backup of Authenticator keys from your phone, actually use the NAS as your secure backup service for Android and iOS devices, etc. If no, is there a similar NAS O/S that you would recommend to do this?
I really need to try and figure all this out, because I am sick of always transferring files all over the place. But the plus side to how I currently do things is that I at least have multiple copies of most things, in addition to backups. You have to keep on top of backups if you store everything in one place.
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Thank you very much, Chris. That was straight and to the point. Those mini PCs have many usages, and this application is a great way to utilize the hardware and the software.
I wish you had made this video 2 weeks ago Chris, lol. Last weekend I tried to setup TrueNAS, but it was a total minefield - and I wasn't prepared to spend hours and hours trying to figure out all those options. I eventually gave up on it and found Open Media Vault. Works great.
This is well explained and as a PC guy myself, I was considering turning my Ryzen 5 5500U Mini Desktop into a server for file storage so me and family members can save any not to personal documents. I say that as I don't know if files get encrypted on the fly. I would like to see if it would be possible to have a log file on who accessed what (for safety and privacy reasons) and have individual drive partitions for each member. If this sounds complex, I apologise.
I have a couple of basic single drive NAS enclosures that run OMV and it works very well, with a great deal of customisation options. No dual drive required in these standalone solutions either.
The Explaining Computers mini NAS universe expands once again!
It does indeed! :) I'm enjoying watching your studio coming together.
I'd love a video explaining why they recommend ECC memory for NASs,. The one solution which complied died
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Excellent video, as always!
I've been waiting for you to do something like this for ages, it's always interesting to see how other people setup their mini PC, what hardware and software they use.
Thank you Chris, you always take the time to explain the smaller things that others leave out in such videos, and that's very much appreciated!
Another great video from a great tutor....
Many thanks, and your support is as always appreciated. :)
At 4:30
"4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds are go!"
There is more to our beloved Chris than meets the eyes!!
[I believe that he was referencing the stop motion cartoon Thunderbirds]
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You made a great job of explaining this process, Chris. I'm sure loads of people will find this very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Just an absolutely fantastic tutorial. I've been looking for a Synology NAS alternative, and OMV seems the most user-friendly of the Linux based NAS systems. I also love Debian. 😊
I used to know some chaps that started a band called the Megabytes. Funny thing was they never got a Gig....🤣👍😎
Nice.
Always a pleasure to have simple but accurate vids from you, Chris. I’ve done tons of these but still I enjoy viewing the tutorial. 😊
Lolz same!😅
Whenever I build a new pc or upgrade a previous system, I save the driver media or clone the original drive to a USB and tape those inside the case so I don't have to try to hunt down items in the future.
Very wise. You never know what you may do with hardware in the future.
Suggestion for Part 2:
- Setup MiniDLNA service
- Setup Docker service and Portainer
- Setup PLEX (in docker/portainer)
- Setup Jellyfin (in docker/portainer)
this will allow almost all devices to access the shared file system.
That could be a setup I'd like to use as a base for a Nextcloud instance.
Sooo: My addition here would be "- Setup Nextcloud (in docker/portainer)" ... ☺
Agreed - I'd love to see a follow up getting a media application like Jellyfin up and accessible from other devices from the OMV NAS
That was very useful, thanks! There is a lot to be said for mini PCs, particularly size, low wattage, and usually lack of fans. Those ducks need an agent.
Proper computing, this is my my new favorite phrase. And this perfectly describes my feelings for green text on a black background.
I’m running OMV on a Lenovo mini PC. I have two 2TB SSDs for storage (mirrored using BTFS) and am using a USB flash drive for the system.
If using a flash drive there is an add-on which needs to be installed to minimise writes, explained on the website installation section.
It really helps if it is a fast flash drive otherwise installing updates and saving settings is very slow. I’m using a SanDisk Extreme Go 64GB which was £15 from CeX.
Love the Gerry Anderson reference with the Thunderbirds Are Go line LOL! I'm a big fan of his work. I was a very young boy when his shows were broadcast on US TV.
COME ON PEOPLE! Chris is almost at a million subs! Let’s get him there -
The latest version of this software did not work on my brand new (11/2023) BMAX B1 Pro purchased from Amazon. I had to drop back to the most recent stable version and now it is running fine. I'm sure that it will be fixed in the near future, but I don't want to waste more time on the bleeding edge. Thanks for another great video. This was my first implementation of OpenMediaVault and it will not be my last.
Thank you Chris for explaining at a speed that an interested but not expert viewer can cope and also absorb your information.
Been using OMV for over a year. Great software for content storage.
This video and the others on the channel about setting up a NAS is the clinic on the NAS topic❗
We are using OMV as well, it's great. For our use case such small PC wouldn't be sufficient because of it's limited expandibility. So our NAS is based on a traditional desktop PC with four high capacity hard drives. Everything is nicely contained in a single box.
Sunday greetings all! Chris, you and I are again in sync. Green on black in the terminal should be standard for “real” computing. Occasionally I get really nostalgic and use amber on black. And yes, ducks are always good in videos. Stay well my friend!
This was a great tutorial, thank you for putting this together. I was in search of a NAS solution for my usb external drive which I needed to access from various places. I ordered the bmax b1plus off ebay and followed your instructions precisely and was able to install it properly.
A couple of places where I got stuck: the installer gives an option to connect with wifi and you can provide the ssid and password for the home wifi and connectivity was not an issue (the wifi interface drivers were built-in). The trouble is, after it reboots, following the installation, there's no internet connectivity over wifi. I had to connect to the console and use the command 'omv-firstaid' to bring up a config tool to setup my wifi credentials. After this it worked just fine.
Another thing that I had to work with is that my usb drive was formatted HPFS or h+ filesystem. Apparently there's a limitation where NFS shares cannot be configured on top of an HPFS volume (seems that this is unsupported). I tried to format the usb thumb drive (the one I used to burn the iso image and boot off of) with ext3 filesystem and NFS seemed to work great for that. So I bought a new USB disk and will format it ext3 and start migrating my data onto that and then share it out as NFS share.
Hopefully it will all work out in the end.
Thanks again for this tutorial.
“Green text on a black background is proper computing” - Couldn’t agree more 😂
I am using a pi400 as NAS. Power consumption around 2.5 W. No fan noise. Overkill ? Yes, i confess. Happy with it ? Yes
👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱
If you are happy with it, that's all that counts. And I can see some benefits to a Pi 400 as a NAS. Great passive cooling for silent operation as you say. Plus if you ever need to access it directly, the keyboard is built in, and there's HDMI on the back. :)
Excellent! Ive been running OMV for nearly 6 years now on my NAS. It works great.
Ive actually been thinking about switching to a smaller platform with 2.5" SSDs or m.2 drives, so this video is right in line with what I'm considering doing.
What fun.. I remember the OMV video you did on the raspberry pi.. I set it up on it and it ran wonderfully.. here we are now in the world of mini pc’s which have big capabilities for a small cash outlay.. I appreciate your detail and the expanded test fly-outs. Thanks for the video..
Scarily timely - I was looking for just this sort of functionality but would never have come up with this solution which looks perfect for what I want. Many (!!!) thanks Chris.
Bish bash bosh, top level content 👍
What's most appealing about these kind of NAS and PC setups is their modularity and reduced costs, which together afford smart upgrade pathways and a sense of "future-proofing."
Whilst raid is harder to implement, I cordially would suggest that it is superior to implement two of these platforms sans raid (coupled via rsync and jobs) than one bigco brand NAS that comes with vendor lock-in on both h/w and s/w.
Kindest regards, neighbours and friends. Happy Sunday!
"Whilst raid is harder to implement, I cordially would suggest that it is superior to implement two of these platforms sans raid (coupled via rsync and jobs) than one bigco brand NAS that comes with vendor lock-in on both h/w and s/w."
Actually that's not true. RAID works at a bit and disk sector level with built in real time error checking that should avoid file corruption happening - especially if you use a parity-based raid like RAID 5.
rsync won't protect against file corruption - it will just replace the good file on the destination machine with the newly corrupt one.
In simple terms, RAID has some file integrity protection but rsync does not.
I use rsync all of the time, by the way, it's a fantastic application - but it's not designed for guaranteeing file integrity.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Thank you. Excellent points.
I did not phrase my thought that well.
Raid and rsync are different concepts and not interchangeable, you are correct.
Warmest regards, friend.
@@chromerims No worries - and rsync is a good solution in many respects, so it's an acceptable suggestion to make.
So you're not incorrect either!
@@terrydaktyllus1320 would either of you like to work on solving the world's other ills? :-) your brilliance shows!!
@@chromerims would either of you like to work on solving the world's other ills? :-) your brilliance shows!!
Another amazing video. Absolutely love that setting up a NAS is so much easier now thank to software like OMV.
The clearest and most efficient explanation in the whole internet about this topic, haha! No kidding. This is the blueprint of how the "How to" videos should be made. Thanks
I love how you have the time to explain things that anyone can understand. My older brother was a computer engineer (retired now). He was an arrogant POS who did contract work for NASA and if I had problems with my computer he would say either go read a book or go to college and learn how to fix it yourself.
@ExplainingComputers Love your style of presenting the video. Way cool. Will look into omv
Thanks for taking the time to explain a bit about OMV and installation. Most videos I've watched on the subject seem to gloss over it and next thing its up and running LOL. I've already got a QNAP NAS, but I wanted to have a play around with a mini PC and some open source NAS software like OMV or FreeNAS to see how it holds up to my QNAP.
I rather recommend running OMV under Proxmox. More flexibility, a way to have a backup, easier adding of new HDDs etc.
I’ve got to admit this UA-cam channel is a guilty pleasure for me.
I'll vouch for OMV. I have an old Asus prebuilt desktop on which I've been using it for years as a plex media server, network storage, various server tasks, etc. simple to set up, get what you want configured, and stable.
Did not know about OpenMediaVault, I've always set up my NAS computers with pure Debian but this video did indeed spawn some ideas like you said
Whether it's with a good quality SBC, such as the Raspberry Pi (I'm not being objective here!) or a mini PC, it's becoming easier and easier for the average user (no negative connotation, on the contrary) to put together a file server, or even a small, high-performance multi-function server... We're back to the 'original dream' of the first digital creators: autonomy at affordable costs! Thank you for this excellent presentation! I think Lady Penelope would appreciate it!
Great video Chris! I've been wanting to setup a NAS for a while now, and this is probably the perfect time for me to get started! :)
Chris... you always know what I want!
Great to hear! Hi Leslie. :)
Couldn’t click fast enough. You started me into the pi/omv universe with docker containers back in 2020. sadly the pi nas has been regulated to a backup role, I’ve moved onto building an awesome unraid server with truenas as a backup. I also run omv as a vm within unraid. Thx Chris, when I watched that first video back in 2020 I said I can do that!
I've been running OMV from a USB flash drive for years with no issues. Just need the flash drive plugin that significantly reduces writes. Having said that, it'll likely die now out of spite for making this comment :)
EXCELENTE ! UN MARAVILLOSO REGALO PARA ESTE DOM8NGO ! ES ESTE CANAL.
As someone who's not a cyber security expert, I hope you'll do a follow up tutorial on improving OMV NAS security by restricting user access
Wow, today I got to learn about Open Media Vault... I wasn't aware how handy it was! As always thanks again Sir!
The end of this video Quacked me up 😂 Great video mate.
Another great video, thank you! I run OMV on a Pi Zero 2W with just one 256GB sd card. It works and performs OK. +5 MB/s over SMB.
There is an addon that allows using root disk as share...
Cool. I must checkout that add-on. :)
Plugin name is openmediavault-sharerootfs
Great lesson in openvault. I'll look into doing an ov raid unit. Much thanks
Thanks Chris for a brilliant video, I've certainly got some ideas for my use case, linking up Linux mint, Win 11 & Android to our network. Green text on a black screen it took me right back to 1986, we had an Amstrad word processor in our office better, than a typewriter. Last but not least a test video of a happy duck, a happy Sunday to you :)
Nice a new minipc related video why i love to be that fast for avoiding people saying first have a nice one
I would love a part two with in depth features like software raid plugins syncing etc otherwise educational video
Clear and concise tutorial, as always. I haven’t yet got around to setting up a NAS, but this video shows how easy it will be when I finally do it.
Wow, this video contains both nostalgic green text on a black background and ducks! The ingredients for a perfect video. Looking forward to your next video!
You make this all look so easy, thank you, brilliant as always.
My humble thanks !! I would never have made this thing work without this excellent tutorial !!
Always nice to see another video on OpenMediaVault! And one featuring ducks too. Thanks as always! 🦆
As for 4:27, I got a story for you bunch this week; Once upon a time when I was a teenager, I tried giving "Thunderbirds" a shot. The puppets freaked me out to where [opens umbrella] I wound up shutting it off and giving the TV version of "Hitchhiker's Guide" a try instead.
Bring on the virtual tomatoes. 😂
Excellent video instructional, Christopher! I'm teetering on the verge of escaping the online cloud with a NAS, and I'm also teetering on the verge of analysis paralysis in considering my options. But you always help me TREMENDOUSLY!
Green text, black background = nestles me softly into my Commodore 64 comfort zone, my RUN magazine open before me, patiently entering "Oregon Trail" line-by-line because as a broke 14-year-old I hadn't been able to scrape up enough yet for my 1541 drive (with No2 pencil "legs" for ventilation). No, that wasn't the "factory" text color, but if you POKE a Commodore, you can work wonders.😉
As expected, yet another brilliant video! Many thanks
I hear "Thunderbirds are GO!" i upvote :P
I don't have a Bmax, but I have an Awow that looks exactly like it, and I think you may have provided enough information to resurrect this little computer. Thank you!
Good luck! :)
Excellent film. Thanks
Thanks Chris for this very relevant video, which, as usual, you have explained in a way making it clear how to proceed. I am going to set up OMV, on an HP mini PC, using an external archival hard drive, for more reliable long-term storage. Thanks for all your hard work and informative videos.
Thanks as always Chris. OpenMediaVault has really come a long way since you first introduced me to it!
Hi Chris. OMV has indeed come on in leaps and bounds.
Great Vid as always. For NAS i always advice using a proper Internal Static IP. Users should learn how to do that setup from their home router. After boot into OMV, they should check Date, region and Time Zone and Time itself. Reboot and check. Try to use 2 disks for Raid 1 at least and setup email notifications in case there is an error. Peace :-)
Thanks very much. I love how concise your guides have always been.
18:23 -- "Networking didn't used to be this easy." So true!! Anyone who ever did any networking work back in the '80s and '90s remembers the *nightmare* that networking used to be. It was more magic than science, it seemed. And **EXPENSIVE!!** Wow!! A network card for an IBM PC used to cost as much as the entire rest of the PC combined! And don't get me started on that coax mess, where the entire network was one super-long coax cable, winding around to each PC on an entire floor of the building. (Try tracking down a break in *that!)* And someone could simply not shut down their PC properly before turning it off, and that would crash the entire network! Definitely do not miss those days! 😂
having to click on "apply" all the time reminds me of "are you sure" !!
Already sunday's time goes fast !!! Chris have a good week, and all the viewers .......
Time add this to the UA-cam favourites folder ready for when I do my new build next year. 👍
Very useful topic, well explained. Thank you for making this useful software accessible for the general public. if i tried to implement this simply by reading about it i don't think i would be feel confident in setting up the network access correctly. your comforting step by step explanations makes all the difference.
Good stuff. Thanks! 👍
Thank you for being so organized and a top-notch teacher. Much appreciated!
being a network agents, even It been a while, it was good for a refresher in networking hell. they have been making things loads easer. UNIX has made things loads easer for years or SCO has. been thru all the networking hell going back to 1990's and learning all the in's and out's before 2000. there are a few things don't know because don't use in day to day work.
Anyone who will warn Chris that the MiniPC he's using is a Decepticon in disguise? :)
quality content! please do more tutorials like this, super helpful
At the time I dont need this yet. However i foresee a time that I will. I've always wondered how to do this and now I know !
Thank you for taking the time to explain this, because for some reason I've always struggled on how to setup networks like this!
That Amiga clock cursor looks amazing! 😃
Yes, I do like that too. :)
I learned something new, I never knew of the .local prefix on the address bar still enjoy you videos.
Excellent! This tutorial enabled me to set up a NAS step by step. Thank you!
Brilliant! Great to hear of your success.
I liked the look and feel of OpenMediaVault but if I had Windows on the computer already, I would have just setup File Sharing using Windows. I think the Workstation flavors of Windows only allow 10 simultaneous connections but on a home network you're probably not going to get that many anyway.
Thanks for posting this. I have a fairly recent PC that can't officially run Win11, but has 6 SATA ports, will make a great NAS.
A very good video, that can help beginners to setup their first NAS for local usage, next step will be to explain how to setup the NAS in order to access it from the internet (cloud usage), with security features like encryption, VPN, perhaps you have already covered these aspects on another video.
Great video!
Maybe in the future you could get Plex and remote access running?
Certainly possibilities for a future video. :)
Thank you! OpenMediaVault seems to solve a problem I had with the concept of NAS for one or two decades... dealing with hardware or software failures.
In the past a NAS used RAID to provide automatic backups. But it had a weak point: if the hardware - especially the NAS motherboard - went bad, you would end up with unreadable drives, completely defeating the whole point of a NAS as "rest of your life" data storage. And of course after a few years the manufacturer would end-of-life the NAS and you could no longer get replascement parts to salvage your data.
But with OpenMediaVault the NAS looks to be software based, so if your hardware goes bad it seems that you simply get new hardware - of any brand and model - then install OpenMediaVault and configure it, move the drives to the new enclosure, and you got your data back! Is this correct?
Additional question: in the does OpenMediaVault have services for things you would normally keep on a paid cloud server? For example webDAV, automatic backup of Authenticator keys from your phone, actually use the NAS as your secure backup service for Android and iOS devices, etc. If no, is there a similar NAS O/S that you would recommend to do this?
This is great! I also wanted to make a NAS with an old PC at my home!
Thanks Chris. Great Video. Must look at some of the older hardware I have sitting around my home office
Great video, man!
Oh nice, just in time. I was gonna re-use my old PC (minus the case) for NAS, so this video gave me a great idea! Thanks!
Another fantastic video!!!! Thank you for the amazing content!
Just in time for me to build my first NAS 😎
Good luck!
I really need to try and figure all this out, because I am sick of always transferring files all over the place. But the plus side to how I currently do things is that I at least have multiple copies of most things, in addition to backups. You have to keep on top of backups if you store everything in one place.
Proper computing, indeed! Although I would also accept amber-on-black as an acceptable answer.
Yes, agreed. I remember getting very excited when at work we bought a batch of amber rather than green CRT monitors. They felt very modern! :)
My top 10 Nas tracks:
1. Memory lane
2. Hate me now
3. Made you look
4. The message
5. Ether
6. It ain't hard to tell
7. Life's a bitch
8. Queens get the money
9. One mic
10. I gave you power 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🔥
Thank you very much, Chris. That was straight and to the point. Those mini PCs have many usages, and this application is a great way to utilize the hardware and the software.
The Server GUI on top of Debian market seems to be evolving rapidly.
1. Open Media Vault
2. unRAID
3. CasaOS
4. TrueNAS Scale
I wish you had made this video 2 weeks ago Chris, lol. Last weekend I tried to setup TrueNAS, but it was a total minefield - and I wasn't prepared to spend hours and hours trying to figure out all those options. I eventually gave up on it and found Open Media Vault. Works great.
YES- i was just installing OMV last night on an old Tower PC, so this will help me finish setup.
Bloody brilliant! Thank you, Christopher. My first time watching one of your videos. Subscribed. Cheers!
This is well explained and as a PC guy myself, I was considering turning my Ryzen 5 5500U Mini Desktop into a server for file storage so me and family members can save any not to personal documents. I say that as I don't know if files get encrypted on the fly.
I would like to see if it would be possible to have a log file on who accessed what (for safety and privacy reasons) and have individual drive partitions for each member.
If this sounds complex, I apologise.
Chris extremely useful video very helpful to so glad I am a member. Loved it, Plan to make my own NAS like you did
Good luck!
I have a couple of basic single drive NAS enclosures that run OMV and it works very well, with a great deal of customisation options. No dual drive required in these standalone solutions either.
Greetings EC. That's one comprehensive tutorial video.
Thank you! Have a great week !