What's the best software to use on a home built nas?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/servers

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  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

    Virtualize your home server by using XCP-NG, Proxmox, VMware ESXi, or any Linux with KVM/QEMU. With the hypervisor, you can host many other services aside to home NAS, such as Plex, Pihole, HomeAssistant, etc. More services to run you can find at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin

  • awesome-sysadmin

    A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

    Virtualize your home server by using XCP-NG, Proxmox, VMware ESXi, or any Linux with KVM/QEMU. With the hypervisor, you can host many other services aside to home NAS, such as Plex, Pihole, HomeAssistant, etc. More services to run you can find at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin

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  • OpenMediaVault

    openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices.

    To build a NAS, you can set up a Linux VM with LVM, ZFS, Btrfs or deploy a pre-built solution like Openmediavault https://www.openmediavault.org/, EasyNAS https://easynas.org/, Starwinds SAN&NAS https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas-free to passthrough the direct-attached storage to NAS VM, create a pool, and expose it to your network as SMB or NFS file shares, or iSCSI storage.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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