About OpenMediaVaultLab
OpenMediaVaultLab covers planning, building and running an OpenMediaVault NAS: hardware requirements and part selection, disk and filesystem layout including ZFS pools, SMB and NFS share configuration, transfer-speed troubleshooting, and how OpenMediaVault compares to TrueNAS and to off-the-shelf NAS appliances.
It is written for people building a DIY NAS on commodity hardware. Coverage follows the OpenMediaVault documentation, OpenZFS documentation, the Samba project's own guidance and vendor specifications, and every article names the sources it is built from.
For an example of this documentation-led approach, the OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi guide connects the project's installation instructions with a board, power and storage checklist, then follows the setup through to a shared folder and backups.
What is covered here
- Comparisons
- Getting Started
- Hardware
- Homelab
- Troubleshooting
8 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the OpenMediaVaultLab Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email [email protected] with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
Some articles here contain Amazon affiliate links, marked with a disclosure notice on the article itself. If you buy through one, this site may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no display advertising and no newsletter sponsorship, and no vendor sees an article before it is published or has any say in what it says.
The full position is on the disclosure page. Read it before acting on anything here that reads like a buying recommendation.
Related sites
OpenMediaVaultLab is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- TrueNAS Hub - TrueNAS Storage Planning, ZFS Pools, Hardware Sizing and Docker Apps
- UnraidHub - Unraid array and parity, disk failure recovery and first-build hardware
- ZFS Storage Hub - OpenZFS pool design, parity and hardware
- NAS Hardware Guide - Drive Bays, HBAs and PSU Sizing
- SelfhostRealm - Your data, your infrastructure.
Contact
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Site: openmediavaultlab.com
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