Why Debian+Samba Beats TrueNAS & Unraid (For My Purposes)

My Homelab NAS is finally up and running. I have moved all the video content over to it, and this is actually the first video that I produced/edited entirely over my home network. Noice!

When setting up my custom NAS, you might have noticed that I simply installed Debian on it - and not TrueNAS, Unraid or OpenMediaVault. Why was this? Why did I manually configure Debian and then Samba to expose all my media files over the home network, when TrueNAS would do all this for me anyway?

And why did I buy two 4TB drives and NOT run them in RAID? Aren't I just risking all my precious files.

Well I answer these questions and more in this video.

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The individual timestamps for this video are:
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00:00 My Homelab NAS is LIVE!
01:05 TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault and Unraid
03:30 But... You Won't Get Snapshot Support?
06:00 RAID (And Why I Have Zero Redundancy)

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Credits
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Thanks to the following resources (sounds, images etc):

"Pop-up Sound" by BeezleFM (https://freesound.org/s/512135/ -- License: Attribution 4.0)

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Smooth Sailing (with Guitar) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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