Introduction
If you’re building a NAS at home, you’ll eventually hit the same fork in the road I did: TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, or just buy a QNAP (or even a DAS). On paper they all solve the same problem. In reality, they’re very different tools with very different tradeoffs.
I’ve used or seriously evaluated all of them while building my Plex, torrent, and media automation setup. This post breaks down the real pros and cons, then explains exactly why I landed on OpenMediaVault.
