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  • ofcrankin Posted 2014-03-08
    Absolutely awesome! By far the best free NAS OS on the planet!
  • liveasx Posted 2014-02-20
    using,good job nas,but any bugs!
  • emegra Posted 2014-02-11
    Just switched over from Freenas and I have to say as a non techy home user OMV is so much easier to use and understand, if i can understand and use this anyone can and the guys on the support forums are amongst the most helpful I've ever come across on any support forum A thousand thanks to Volker for this amazing piece of software
  • waxhell Posted 2014-02-06
    This is a great stable, free, and open NAS. The developer is responsive and pushes bugfixes constantly. Installation was a breeze and 3rd party plugin support is great!
  • moritzthecat Posted 2014-01-22
    I am using commercially avail. 4-bay NAS solutions since years from various brands. The majority of them are ARM/linux based given the better performance/energy/cost ratio compared with Intel ones. All these solutions are fine, but have limited flexibility when it comes to compute intense and special tasks to integrate into the system.My first OMV 4-bay NAS was based on N40 HW and is running since 1.5 years at outstanding stability. Recently I built a most up to date 4-bay OMV NAS based on latest Haswell architecture. The platform is running very stable and is expetect to outperform all commercially avail. NAS systems wrt performance/energy consumption. The next OMV release 0.6 will be based on Debian Wheezy and is intended to reach below 14watt in idle (AC side) with 4x4TB RED hard drives and a boot mSATA SSD. The concept and power figures were proven with latest Ubuntu version. Furthermore I did try other linux based free NAS solutions and concluded that OMV is the way to continue. Special thanx to Volker Theile and the OMV team to make OMV happen and successful.
  • bookie56 Posted 2014-01-19
    I spent a long time looking for something that would be just right for a NAS. I have tested most Linux software over the years and was very glad to have found OpenMediaVault. Although very young OpenMediaVault has proved itself as a worthy contender for the NAS market. I, for one, wish them well with this Project! I already have it installed on four computers looking after files in my small computer company here in Sweden. If you are looking for a really easy and well thought out web administered NAS OS - then you won't go far wrong with OpenMediaVault. They have an excellent hard working and aim to please support network at their forum. Good luck and keep up the good work! bookie56
  • comoretti Posted 2014-01-15
    Migrated from Synology, loving the flexibility. Great NAS software, really stable.
  • kentish_man Edited 2014-04-06
    Nice NAS software, easy to install and even easier to configure. Saved loads of time setting up the NAS to support several XBMC installations. Thanks to the sweet plugins MYSQL was breeze. Been using this since release and it just keeps getting better.
  • gholemu Edited 2014-01-10
    It took me a while to install it and configure it, but it eventually worked. Still some bugs to deal with. All in all, being Open Source and Free, I'd say it's a good piece of software and it definitely comes with nice potential. Thanks for it!
  • fruchtshake Edited 2014-01-07
    Software mit Potenzial
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • yellowshed Edited 2013-12-25
    Been using OMV for a year now and love it. It's stable, reliable and everything we need at work. Useful bunch of plugins, too. Very pleased with the support from the forum, too.
  • omvjoe Edited 2013-12-22
    A great NAS distro.
  • bsaiz Posted 2013-12-19
    Really nice linux based network attached storage solution.
  • rattata Edited 2013-12-15
    OMV is awesome. I left FreeNAS because of their limitations in my home and I want something easy to use and just work. (Not tried latest version of FreeNAS but it still looks more hands on than OMV). Alot of plugins have been made available and my life has never been easier :)
  • mauromol Edited 2013-12-06
    Using OMV to build a home NAS with an old Pentium 3 and a Raid 6 of five old mixed disks was great fun! An excellent web UI to ease the task, a good community and a good feedback from the developer to solve issues are the main reasons to try OMV. Also, the fact it's based on Debian makes it very easy to finding information on the Internet to solve issues or tune the system.
  • frli Edited 2013-12-05
    I've been running OMV a couple of years now and I've never had any regrets. Along with the plugins it got all the features I need, and then some. A beginner or an intermediate user would have no problem with setting up a NAS using OMV. As an advanced user, used to Debian-style Linux, everything feels familiar and it easy to get even more functionality out of my NAS, by installing additional Debian software. Also, I've posted a couple of times in the forum, to get support and ideas with various things and my experience is that something useful always comes back to the thread creator. Highly recommended.
  • itz0rn Edited 2013-12-03
    OMV is what I used, after getting disappointed by Nas4Free. It is way more easy to use. Easy to install and easy to set up. It has agreat community and a decent support in the forum. Works just fine!
  • ppfdez Edited 2013-12-01
    Great. Second generation of NAS for Volker. Easy to install, linux architecture, lots of plugins. A programmer Volker Theile and a forum that really helps. - easy to install - easy to use - The best NAS project.
  • a-stranger Edited 2013-11-29
    Very easy to use and stable nas distribution for home users. Real alternative for everybody who dont want to buy expensive nas systems (Synology, QNAP, etc.) or want much more flexibility. Also very good support and development and a living community.
  • synergix Posted 2013-11-27
    Really great. Easy to install, good architecture, lots of plugins (as extensions). And a programmer (and forum) that really helps if there´s a need. - easy to install - easy to use (dosen´t matter if you´re a Mac, *.nix oder Windows user) The best NAS project I´ve seen in the last years.
  • fpunktkpunkt Edited 2015-01-20
    I decided to move from WHS2011 to an open Source Home Server Solution. After a two weeks of intensive research I came to the conclusion that OMV might be a perfect candidate to fulfill my needs. Even with very very little knowledge of Linux etc. I had a working System within a couple of hours. Installation and configuration is a breeze and almost everything worked like I wanted. The OMV Forum was a helpful place for further information and in my case for active and friendly help when I had some minor trouble with my configuration. An excellent solution - no point for me looking elsewhere.
  • rittsel Posted 2013-11-26
    Great NAS solution, I've been a Debian user for several years and this is what I've been waiting for. Good clean design, does what it needs to do and constant development!
  • qiwi84 Posted 2013-11-23
    Great and easy to use NAS system. The standard system is great and it can be extended with plugins built by the community.
  • mikeekim Posted 2013-11-19
    Thank you for this software. After 6 month evaluation now I have moved my old Freenas machine to OMV. Stable, more opportunities, increasing number of plugins and extensions, and easier to understand also for non Linux professionals. As for Freenas before Volker made an excellent Job.
  • jdthehutt Posted 2013-11-19
    I previously used both FreeNAS and NAS4Free and I enjoyed them. However, I was looking for a Linux based system instead and finding and using this was perfect for me. The developer and community support is superb and really welcoming. The system itself is very easy to use and familiar and tweakable due to its Debian base. I highly recommend this and eagerly await further development.