I have a mini-PC running windows. On that, I run home assistant in virtualbox, have plex installed, and a cheap USB harddrive plugged in to keep my plex media. I’ve turned on sharing for a folder in this drive so other devices on my network can access it.
I’ve watched some videos and read some tutorials. I have a pretty good idea on how I’m going to run HA and Plex, but I’m unsure about turning my USB drive into something the rest of my devices can access as well as something Plex can directly access too.
What would you recommend as the most beginner friendly, easy way to accomplish this? I keep seeing TrueNAS pop up, but I’m not convinced this isn’t way overkill for what I want to do. So what would you recommend I look at to start out? The amount of information and things I don’t know yet is a little overwhelming.
After I get more familiar with the system, I’m totally happy to branch out and try more advanced things that most people prefer, but that’s down the road for me now.
Edit: to be clear, I’m planning on completely ditching windows and setting everything back up in proxmox
The most beginner friendly way would be doing a pass through to TrueNAS or OMV or a similar easy to use NAS option.
Do you think using TrueNAS or OMV is as easy as Samba? Or maybe there are some benefits that justify a little bit more challenging solution?
I would say easier, as truenas/omv provide an easy to use UI to configure samba with good defaults.
You can configure samba yourself directly on Proxmox without needing a VM at all if you want to, it’s just a little more to learn at first.
Alright, I’ll check those out too. I have been assuming those would be more complicated to set up as a newbie