Editorial desk
OpenMediaVaultLab Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes OpenMediaVaultLab. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- 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 publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (6)
- Getting Started
OpenMediaVault Docker Compose Setup: The OMV 8 Plugin Route
OpenMediaVault Docker Compose setup on OMV 8: the omv-extras plugin, shared folder layout, Docker storage off the OS disk, a first stack and backups.
- homelab
How to Install OpenMediaVault 8 on Raspberry Pi
Install OpenMediaVault 8 on a Raspberry Pi using Raspberry Pi OS Lite, wired networking, USB storage, SMB shares, backups, and secure remote access.
- Hardware
OpenMediaVault Hardware Requirements and Build Guide
What OpenMediaVault 8 needs from CPU, memory, disks and network, where the documented minimums stop being useful, and three reference builds to copy.
- Troubleshooting
OpenMediaVault SMB Slow? 4 Checks Before Tuning
Seeing 11 MB/s or 40–70 MB/s? Test the network, storage, Samba and client in order to diagnose slow OpenMediaVault SMB transfers before tuning.
- Comparisons
OpenMediaVault vs TrueNAS vs Synology: Which NAS?
How OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS and a Synology appliance differ on hardware freedom, filesystem, upgrades and recovery, with a decision rule for each.
- Getting Started
OpenMediaVault NAS Planning: Disks, Filesystems, Shares
How OpenMediaVault layers disks, filesystems, shared folders and services, and the storage decisions worth settling before you copy any data onto it.