Anyone have a favorite NAS (for normies)? (lemmy.today)

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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.

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[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I don't even have a web interface on my server, so with that in mind: If they are managing it day to day, get a qnap device, my none tech friend has one, started with a 2bay now has a 4 bay with 8tb drives (QNAP TS-464). I've only ever had to help him with the old one, can't remember what the problem was but 10mins and the command line and it was fixed.

Also have a look at true as or hexos, I think they have immich as an app, not 100% sure

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