Storage Box - Corralling the Streaming Horde (part 2 of ?)
Now that it has been awhile and I have had some time to configure and test and define things in OpenMediaVault. I have to say that I really love it.
I come from places of "prebuilt" or "commercial" offerings like Synology and QNAP. Now being back in back in the land of somewhat opinionated but mostly hackable Linux/Debian spaces has been highly refreshing. The WebUI of OMV for the plugins is not really all that difficult but I would recommend being familiar with the commandline as well to fetch some of the necessary data pieces for configuring everything as you will need the UUID of drives.
I am mildly regretting now using a hot-swap drive installation method as well. I have another build I want to do for VM and misc data backup that I'm looking into doing a very similar setup with this improvement. Converting the 15bay to hotswap though would reduce it to 12 bay, but I mean 12x20TB is still a hell of a load of raw drive space.
I have setup mergerfs and SnapRAID, scheduling it once a week on Sunday late-nights, across a half-dozen drives with 3 now in keeping parity and I have a few more drives to install before I near my case drive maximums.
It has totally handled my somewhat taxing loads via random assistant helper programs, such as the various *arrs, and even a sidecar box that is idly monitoring and re-encoding videos to h265 via tdarr for space reduction (which is probably a separate article, but converting to flows has been fantastic!). I have even setup audiobookshelf for podcast management and have the storage backend via this setup
I am now slowly considering moving my highseas docker stack onto it but I really like my proxmox setup for backups and other management so I will probably just keep it as-is until there is a need to change.