I installed OMV 5 to see how TOS 4.2.14 compares

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yerc1
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I installed OMV 5 to see how TOS 4.2.14 compares

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My OpenMediaVault setup:
Machine - Dell Inspiron 13z 5323 (year 2012) laptop with Intel Core i3 processor and 4Gb DDR3
Installed on - 64Gb USB flash drive
OMV Version - 5.5.11 Stable

Installation is easy.
I would say the same for TOS, however, should one come across an issue during installation I would say users of OMV will have higher chance finding a solution from the OMV up-to-date documentation https://help.terra-master.com/TOS/view/?lang/en-us than users of TOS who have the very measly and out-of-date documentation https://help.terra-master.com/TOS/view/?lang/en-us.

Updating.
OMV beats TOS hands down in this area.
Post installation, I saw in the OMV Update Manager all available packages for upgrade. I can do individual or mass upgrade from the web UI or from command line. The ability to know and make the decision on packages to upgrade is important to me. I picked the packages to upgrade (only the things I cared about), and the system went about the whole process smoothly. There was a visible alert in the web UI when the process has completed and I then logged back in with no trouble.

With notifications enabled, I can receive an email every time packages are ready for install.

We all know what a TOS update is like.
The system never lets me know that there's an update. Should I manually check in the TOS Control Panel, TOS would not do an automatic update even if one exists. I have to visit the forum to know about an update, then head over to the Downloads page (sometimes the update is not even there, example TOS Patch 1.10) to grab the file, then feed the file to the TOS Control Panel and pray to all the gods that the update does not break anything I've spent hours to build.

OMV vs TOS web UI
OMV UI looks polished and behaves as I expect it to. It's still early days but I have not found anything to fault.

On the surface, TOS looks like a blast from the past - so Windows XPish for me. It's when navigating around that I also see some rough edges like the prompt that asks for confirmation everytime I leave a section regardless if no setting has changed at all.

I'm going to leave it here for now.

As always, it is up to TM to take on board whatever improvement they like.

As for me, I know where I'm heading to if TOS 5 does not step up.
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is my first NAS, bought in October 2020
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yerc1
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Re: I installed OMV 5 to see how TOS 4.2.14 compares

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Here's the correct link to OMV documentation - https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/5.x/index.html
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