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past pier
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You may want to look into using VMs in something like Proxmox. An alternative is to run Home Assistant and Other stuff in Docker Containers but I believe there are some issues with that

unborn schooner
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Proxmox virtualisation, right?

copper basalt
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I use proxmox but if you value your data, maybe better to run haos as a vm on Truenas/Unraid

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Safer not to virtualise nas

copper basalt
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Depending on which "nas server" you want; you may be able to just run it as part of native proxmox. I think there's some support for exporting local disks.

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But it's not as "rich" as unraid/truenas etc

unborn schooner
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I don't really understand all the stuff about proxmox, 'haos' or truenas and unraid
I'm looking for a cool NAS server that will let me store different files and access it in the form of a folder on my PC.

I dont have any experience with NAS, although my files are very important to me, as I work with software for a living.
Other purpose of the NAS is to store my family's photos.

I want it to be performant because I will run it on a some kind of an old office PC or a laptop (for less power consumption)

Other than that, I like cool features, so a NAS that has some fancy dashboard or a mobile app would also be cool for me.
Something like an auto-backup of specific folders every some period of time would be awesome too!

If I understand correctly, Linux has 'containers'? That could let me host a NAS in one and Proxmox in the other?
Would that be a recommended solution?
I want a standarized, yet very configurable experience as I just love making everything customised to myself.

past pier
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A somewhat plug and play option would be to get a Synology Nas that supports docker

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Then all you really need to do is set up the home assistantant docker

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It's what I did to start my nas journey, though I do admit I wasn't using Hass at the time so I don't know what's that like on it @unborn schooner

unborn schooner
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Yeah, but I don't like the fact that a cheapest Synology costs $120, while I could probably buy a much more powerful laptop for that and (I think) have all the same NAS features + more performance, ram, internal storage, built-in wifi and bluetooth (although probably not very useful) and probably some more features.

That's why I want to focus on trying to get it working on Linux.

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I assume it would be smartest to just educate myself about NAS and different software solutions for that.