Best NAS Software: TrueNAS vs OpenMediaVault vs Unraid
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Building your own NAS using a second-hand PC or a Raspberry Pi can be fun, educational, and save you money! Once you have the hardware, you will need some software. You could do it or manually or you could use a NAS specific solution based on Linux on FreeBSD. In this video I compare TrueNAS with OpenMediaVault with Unraid. --- 00:00 Intro 01:44 Why build your own NAS 02:59 Hardware requirements 06:45 TrueNAS 08:47 HexOS 09:43 OpenMediaVault 10:31 Unraid 12:12 My recommendation 12:36 Outro Twitter: https://twitter.com/garyexplains Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garyexplains/ #garyexplains
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