Proxmox vs Openmediavault

[agarg]

Folks:

I discovered an unused HP Microserver with RAIDZ (5 drives, including caddie in the defunct DVD drive) and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. It has a AMD Turion II Processor Model Neo N54L dual core and an ubuntu rev 22 server in USB drive with swap disabled.

My use case is just a NAS filer.

If I install proxmox on a 32Gb flash drive with no swap and don't really use Lekcee or VM (except storage on zfs) from other pve devices on the zfs tank (nfs or samba exposed), would that be ok? Dont need much logs. Perhaps no swap. And, also no VM/LXC.

Openmedia vault encourages HDD/SSD install but does not object if we use flash drive for OS.

Is it better that I use proxmox, or should I debian server this or perhaps Openmedia Vault? Pls advise as my requirements are anonymous access to samba server.

 

[ness1602]

wrt turion processor, i would just spin up openmediavault for a simple file-share machine.

 

[aabraham]

Folks:

I discovered an unused HP Microserver with RAIDZ (5 drives, including caddie in the defunct DVD drive) and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. It has a AMD Turion II Processor Model Neo N54L dual core and an ubuntu rev 22 server in USB drive with swap disabled.

My use care is just a NAS filer.

If I install proxmox on a 32Gb flash drive with no swap and don't really use Lekcee or VM (except storage on zfs) from other pve devices on the zfs tank (nfs or samba exposed), would that be ok? Dont need much logs. Perhaps no swap. And, also no VM/LXC.

Openmedia vault encourages HDD/SSD install but does not object if we use flash drive for OS.

Is it better that I use proxmox, or should I debian server this or perhaps Openmedia Vault? Pls advise as my requirements are anonymous access to samba server.

I would agree with @ness1602. It entirely depends on how heavily you plan to use this device.

 

[agarg]

Thank you. The usage is sporadic and not much at all.

 

[Johannes S]

If you really don't want to do anything with VMs you are better off with just a Linux server or NAS distribution like OMV. I would also consider UnRAID or TrueNAS Scale.
All of them allows to host Apps via docker if the need arise.