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.
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