I was reading up on installing OMV on a mobo with uefi. I read that installing debian then OMV might be required
When buying parts for my upgrade the build became much more powerful then I planned.
Coming from a dual core pentium e2180 with 4gb ram, 3 4tb red in software RAID5. I've picked up a asrock z97 extreme6, 8gb ram, i7 4790, 60gb m.2 ssd.
Now while I'm waiting for the parts to get here I'm having trouble with the thoughts of letting this box sit there and just run Plex and transfer files. I was thinking I would want a desktop environment so I can use the power and rip Blu-ray, potentially allowing me to ditch my laptop for a tablet, amongst other stuff. But most of the time it will just sit there running plex.
My question is what is the best way of going about this? Install OMV then run another OS in VM?
Install debian w/cinnamon then add on OMV? If I go that route what controls my samba shares, software raid, ect? If I set up my RAID, shares, plex in OMV on top of debian, when I'm on the desktop will it be like I'm just on a computer on the network? Will I be able to interact with the RAID file system?
Thanks guys