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.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        25 days ago

        Ohh… I forgot about this. If they’re still doing that then I wouldn’t recommend them.

        For less tech-savvy users, I usually recommend some off-the-shelf hardware, so they have multiple people they can go to in case of issues with either the hardware or the standard built-in software (like the manufacturer, or other people that are also familiar with products from that manufacturer).

        Synology used to be the best for that, but maybe not any more. A lot of brands have gotten into NAS hardware over the last year or two so I’m not sure what’s the best now!

    • pazuzuzu@leminal.space
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      24 days ago

      I have a Synology andits’s the only non-FOSS components of my home network. I’m planning to replace it with a Linux box but I can confirmits’s quite nice.

  • greasewizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I’ve used a zima board and zimaOS.

    very straightforward and easy to use, very similar apple aesthetic too. I can setup a raid array with just a few clicks immediately after installing.

    you don’t need the zima board to use zimaOS if you already have some hardware laying around.

    zimaOS comes with a docker app store where you can spin up immich, or any other dockerized service, like jellyfin, next cloud, etc. I’m sure seafile is in there too

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
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    26 days 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