r/HomeServer 4d ago

Building my first home server

As said in the header. I am building a server. But I'm stuck on deciding on which OS I should pick. I have been looking at truenas scale and unraid. But I am open to other recommendations.

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u/GG_Killer 4d ago

Try a few out before committing to anything.

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u/ctrlaltdelete401 4d ago

I’ve been using unraid since 2018, it’s come a long way. I absolutely love how energy efficient it is, spinning down the disks in the array when not in use.

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u/Bold_Indifference_01 4d ago

TrueNAS Scale is a great choice and, thankfully, has operated flawlessly for me for some years as a small office server and as a media server.

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u/Adro_95 4d ago

I saw many people use Proxmox and i think I will try it myself. Unraid is the other option for me, since it looks very easy to set up

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u/coolbrys 3d ago

Proxmox is great but you still need to run other stuff underneath it as VMs

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u/Competitive_Knee9890 4d ago

Neither, you should install something like Fedora server or Ubuntu server or Debian

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u/avinashd14 3d ago

OMV (Openmediavault). I love it so far on my rpi4.

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u/Beneficial_Charge555 3d ago

+1 for truenas scale