Openmediavault, known as OMV, could be the best choice among different open-source NAS solutions. Based on the great flexibility of Debian, together with its low consumption, OMV can work well on different hardware environments. Even my obsolete Intel Celeron D can still run well.

Even though OMV is easy to use, it lacks documents, as the development team are all recommending to use their ready-to-use images, which is not so friendly with senior users. What’s more, guides to compile from scratch is just an empty paper, and you must guess what to do by yourself!

After falling into plenty of traps, I won’t allow such an empty paper to hurt any beginners! So here comes my guide.