OpenMediaVault VS Nextcloud

Unless you've got another project in mind for your Pi4 (and who doesn't?), I enjoyed (mostly) my time running an OpenMediaVault machine (I was running Plex and a couple of minecraft servers on it). Here's a guide for installing pihole on an OMV machine, and this guy has a TON of useful tutorial videos around all kinds of neat stuff you can do with OMV (as well as initial setup/config vids).

I would just go with Proxmox and run Plex, game server and NAS as VMs. For a NAS, take a look at StarWinds SAN and NAS or TrueNAS Core if you want ZFS. 16GB of RAM might be a bit scarce for everything but still worth a shot. There's also openmediavault that requires minimum RAM.

NAS: OpenMediaVault.

I thought it was related to this issue at first: https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/pull/746

If you have enough budget and do not want to break your fingers, then consider Synology or QNAP NAS. Otherwise, building your own server is fascinating. With a DIY server, you can deploy XPenology https://xpenology.org/ or alternative solutions like Openmediavault, https://www.openmediavault.org/, Starwinds SAN and NAS https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas-free or any Linux distributive you like and configure ZFS or mdadm.

I physically built my 1st NAS and put (openmediavault) on it - that does most things.

https://www.openmediavault.org/ looks interesting in terms of NAS software

I’d be wary of using TrueNAS as a first time build due to it’s poor expansion options - replace all disks in turn or add a new vdev. There’s no expanding vdevs at the current time like you can a mdadm RAID array. I’d be more inclined to run OMV (as the download is a Debian base) and potentially move to Scale later on once you know your true storage requirements and can afford to acquire all disks upfront. OMV is good to build bit by bit (I’m not convinced by Unraid). 2 x 10TB mirror -> 3 x 10TB RAID5 -> 4 x 10TB RAID5 or 6 etc.

Nextcloud Dev (version 20230318): Synchronization client

Nextcloud has the deck app.

You can even combine it (can schedule backups) with let's say MiXplorer (has cloud/network storage support & auto tasks), Tasker or Nextcloud, Syncthing etc and have your own backup/restore service running, complete with even the most private parts of the apps' data, their set of permissions etc.

What is different between the All-In-One versions (NextCloud & Hansson IT) and the server software from GitHub or the docker container software from NextCloud?

Nextcloud

Nextcloud Dev (version 20230221): Synchronization client

If you want something like onedrive, you could check out NextCloud (or OwnCloud). You can host it on your machine, or pay someone (eg. a server hosting company) to do it for you. (Note that the admin of the server where NextCloud is running does have access to your files, but probably there is a strict contract between you and not just random ToS without any rights.)

Secure remote access can be facilitated through encrypted tunnels. VPNs, SSH, Cloudflare tunnel, SOCKS, etc. can all be secure ways of remotely accessing network resources. What you use will vary, depending upon the type of access you require and/or prefer. For file management, there are multiple tools for this task - Nextcloud, Seafile, Pydio, Sandstorm, FileRun, and more available for the choosing.

Nextcloud - Google Drive Replacement