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Anyone have a favorite NAS (for normies)? (lemmy.today)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
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A family member is interested in self-hosting their photos! They asked me if there is a NAS I would recommend.

They're not very technical. They can manage their own Macbook, but not much else.

I can't recommend them my setup because I built my own computer and just run Debian and Docker.

They would definitely need a ton of hand holding. I think they can manage clicking a web UI though. Any terminal stuff will probably scare them away.

Anyone have any recommendations? Something from QNAP, Ugreen, Zima, or something else?

They're mainly interested in self-hosting photos. I was hoping to get them on Immich. I could see them doing some file hosting too. So maaaybe running Seafile would be nice. Or maybe just NFS.

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago*

I've used a zima board and zimaOS.

very straightforward and easy to use, very similar apple aesthetic too. I can setup a raid array with just a few clicks immediately after installing.

you don't need the zima board to use zimaOS if you already have some hardware laying around.

zimaOS comes with a docker app store where you can spin up immich, or any other dockerized service, like jellyfin, next cloud, etc. I'm sure seafile is in there too

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