truenas: dont support large enough clients with the complex requirements to justify the complexity/support/additional cost over synology
OMV: for homelabbing full stop
omv, after getting through the quirky interface, is the most versatile easiest NAS system ive tried, you can throw it at anything and it just works
running it on everything from £10 old bananapi’s with an attached 2.5 inch sata drive (as lower power backup endpoints) to running as virtual machines on powerful hosts with passthrough’d drives to bare metal installs
when running it as a sole vm on a proxmox host alongside a low powered x86 sbc running proxmox backup server, gives the cheapest simplest easily maintained backup nas solution you can run as a homelabber (the dedupe ratio of PBS is really really good)
run the PBS as a proxmox VM for even easier restore of the PBS itself
icing on the cake… with the community addons, you can make it literally do anything, even supports zfs
I need to revisit OMV, but I didn’t have a good start the last time I tried it. The quirky bits probably got in the way. I have it on a Pi4 with a USB to NVME adapter, this may not help and I should probably move to a CM4 with NVME in a small case. Just need a home NAS with this for storing media. I was thinking of trying it on a CM3588 NAS kit for my lab, but that just didn’t work out.
Somone should add that VLAN management on Truenas is way better than on any synology. If you have multiple vlans and you don’t want to route your storage that is easier done on TrueNAS than Synology or at least there’s a better interface.
