I see a lot of you went with Buster lite. I went the other way and installed Bullseye x64 lite on a RaspberryPi 8G. Scripts ran fine as provided in the manual for me and I am waiting on my RTC battery and some new SSD drives. Turned out in my case mdadm was already installed. I am assuming by the OMV install script. So far everything has been perfect. At idle the temp sits at ~33°C and I’ve only heard the fan once during the install and set up of OVM. I expecting the fan to rarely run with my current set up.
The plan for this NAS is to replace my two aging QNAP HS-210’s that have stopped receiving FW updates and are scheduled to stop receiving security patches in October of this year. Something I don’t suspect I will ever need to worry about with this NAS no matter how long I choose to keep it. Also, based on the hardware the QNAP is based I should actually see a performance increase.
On a side note, did anyone else realize that, after removing the bit from the included screwdriver, the handle also fit the stand-offs? Not sure it this was on purpose of not, but it sure made assembly a breeze!
Thanks to everyone!