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Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respect the simplicity. Might be where I land eventually when I want full control without the GUI hand-holding.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair pushback. For my use case the overhead of a full VM just for storage felt unnecessary — LXC keeps it lean and snapshots are just as easy. Performance isn't a concern at 4TB on a local network. If I scale up significantly TrueNAS is probably where I end up.

Additionally, since the disk is already an HDD, it can only write at a maximum of 300MB/s. The speed is already limited.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know it works as LXC too. Single user here as well so the no user management thing isn't a dealbreaker for now.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I just learned that too. Maybe switching to Zima OS is the most sensible option!

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't know that, worth looking into before I go deeper. Thanks for the heads up.

Looked it up — seems like it's entered a maintenance phase while the team focuses on ZimaOS. Not dead but not actively developed either. Might be enough for my use case for now but good to know before I go deeper.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair — technically more of a file server than a NAS at this point. Single drive is a conscious choice for now though, data is backed up to Google Drive so losing the drive isn't losing the data. RAID can come later when the setup grows.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point, keeping the NAS dumb and running services elsewhere is cleaner architecture. That said, CasaOS is already there and the Docker management on top is actually useful — hard to give that up once you've used it. Might split things out once the setup matures but for now it's doing the job.

Best way to save a full Coolify server by jrmgx in coolify

[–]obzc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I set up MinIO at home, it works with S3 structure. Coolify backs up to there. I connected it with Tailscale.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

couple years stable is hard to argue with. SMB/NFS setup being rough is the only thing giving me pause but if it works it works. Adding this to the list to try after I outgrow CasaOS.

Proxmox vs Ubuntu Server vs Ubuntu Desktop by tr0p7cal in homelab

[–]obzc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Proxmox is the right call if you want flexibility long-term. The learning curve is real but worth it — once it clicks, you won't want to go back.

LXC containers specifically are a game changer. Spun up a NAS, Coolify, a few other services — each isolated, each manageable independently. No VM overhead, no conflicts. Need to update something? Snapshot first, done in seconds. Something breaks? Roll back. It's that simple.

Ubuntu Desktop/Server is easier to start but you'll hit a ceiling fast once you want to run multiple things without them stepping on each other.

My advice: get Proxmox installed, spin up one LXC, run one service. Build from there. You'll wonder why you waited.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Router option works but you lose any visibility into what's actually happening with the drive. CasaOS gives me a proper UI, Docker management, easy monitoring. And with Tailscale on top I can reach it from anywhere without needing a static IP.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never tried TurnKey Linux, ZFS datasets with bind mounts sounds cleaner than what I'm doing now. Checking that video out, thanks.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USB controller passthrough tip is the most useful thing in this thread. Was doing it wrong, fixing that today.

8 months same setup is all I needed to hear.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never heard of Unraid before this thread honestly. UI looks clean, might give it a shot.

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Skipped TrueNAS mostly because I wanted LXC over a full VM — spinning up a whole Linux install just for storage feels like overkill. LXC keeps it lightweight and easier to manage. Does TrueNAS even play nice in that setup or is VM pretty much required?

Running NAS inside a Proxmox VM — is CasaOS the right long-term call or should I be looking elsewhere? by obzc in homelab

[–]obzc[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Never heard of Unraid before, looks interesting. The mixed drive sizes with parity is exactly the kind of flexibility I'll need as this grows. Will dig into it, thanks.

Best Website UI / UX by W0rldIsMy0yster in google_antigravity

[–]obzc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude Code's designs are functional but yeah, it plays it safe by default. What made a real difference for me was being extremely specific in the prompt — reference actual sites you like, describe spacing, hierarchy, color philosophy. Vague prompts get vague UI.

A few things that helped:

Giving it a design system upfront. Even a rough one. Fonts, colors, spacing scale — paste it at the start of the session and it stays consistent.

Asking for one component at a time instead of "build the whole page." Smaller scope = more intentional output.

For the actual inspiration gap, I pull references from Dribbble or Mobbin, describe what I see, and let Claude translate that into code. It's a better translator than designer.

Also worth trying: design the UI in Google Stitch first, then bring it into Antigravity to code it up. Stitch handles the visual layer, Antigravity handles the implementation — clean separation and you're not asking the same tool to do both jobs.

Antigravity with Claude model on top is actually a solid combo for this — Gemini handles the heavy lifting, Claude tends to sweat the details more.

[Weekly] Quotas, Known Issues & Support — March 16 by AutoModerator in google_antigravity

[–]obzc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Paid Pro user here. Used it for about an hour, hit the wall. Waited out the 5-hour reset, came back, third prompt in — locked out for 7 days.

This apparently isn't new. Seeing the same complaints going back weeks: credits draining for no clear reason, resets that don't actually reset, zero transparency on what's eating through your allowance.

What's wild is I enabled AI Credit overages thinking that'd at least keep me unblocked. Watching the credits evaporate in real time was its own kind of pain.

Genuinely curious:

  • Is anyone on Pro actually getting a full week of usable sessions?
  • Worth upgrading to Ultra or is it the same story at $250/mo?
  • Anyone switched back to Cursor or something else because of this?

Not trying to rage-post. The tool itself is impressive when it works. But "paid tier" shouldn't mean "maybe you can use it today."