Simple shared storage

[cult]

Hy everyone,

Please be patient with me, I am a Proxmox and Linux neophyte and english is not my main langage.

That been said, i have multiple HDD with different size and i want to share the disks on my network so i can access it in my VMs and outside my server (android, linux, windows). I dont want to use RAID because i dont realy care about most of the data and for the part i care i will run a backup strategy. What is the best way ? Should i create a VM with OpenMediaVault and share files with samba, should i create a ubuntu server with samba, should i use FreeNas, Is Ceph a good candidat, etc ? I try to search for my answer on the internet but i faild into the rapid hole very fast.

What is your suggestion ?

Thanks!

 

[EngChiVi]

start with basics
a) what are you trying to achieve?
b) what equipment you have on hand (1 PC, 2 PCs, etc)
c) what is your budget (if any)

"NAS" is good for what it is supposed to do - low power consumption, low processing power device to hold and host storage. nothing more. you can buy cheap NAS from Synology/QNAP/etc if you want or build your own storage server , pretty much any linux distribution would work.


server - high power, high power consumption, lots of cores/threads meant to handle processing you want

focus on first defining the need, then deal with options . good luck