Anyone have a favorite NAS (for normies)?

Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨paequ2@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨selfhosting@slrpnk.net⁩

A family member is interested in self-hosting their photos! They asked me if there is a NAS I would recommend.

They’re not very technical. They can manage their own Macbook, but not much else.

I can’t recommend them my setup because I built my own computer and just run Debian and Docker.

They would definitely need a ton of hand holding. I think they can manage clicking a web UI though. Any terminal stuff will probably scare them away.

Anyone have any recommendations? Something from QNAP, Ugreen, Zima, or something else?

They’re mainly interested in self-hosting photos. I was hoping to get them on Immich. I could see them doing some file hosting too. So maaaybe running Seafile would be nice. Or maybe just NFS.

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kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have been bitten by QNAP its underlying system so I can no longer recommend them.

What I can recommend is TrurNAS scale. It is not hard or complicated as some might make you believe. The ui is so much cleaner and easy to navigate then the more desktop style UIs.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’d probably just get a Synology and install Immich on it.

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- paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh, Synology. What’s up with them? I heard they’re experimenting with vendor lock-in for their hard drives.
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=RscBZAiwGkA
  
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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ugreen works well, though I put truenas on it.

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Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t even have a web interface on my server, so with that in mind: If they are managing it day to day, get a qnap device, my none tech friend has one, started with a 2bay now has a 4 bay with 8tb drives (QNAP TS-464). I’ve only ever had to help him with the old one, can’t remember what the problem was but 10mins and the command line and it was fixed.

Also have a look at true as or hexos, I think they have immich as an app, not 100% sure

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Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I recommend a USB hard drive attached to a raspberry pi and running OpenMediaVault. There’s an easy to follow tutorial for setting it up here:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvlEbdA6qI

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