Up till now I’ve been running Debian on a 2008 Dell tower as my homeserver. I just got 2 1tb drives for it so I want to upgrade to an actual dedicated NAS software to simplify how I manage it. The problem is, I only have 4gb of RAM in it. Any recommendations?
Edit: For context, I mostly use the server for Nextcloud and Syncthing but I also want to be able to have a generic Debian server with ssh access available if I need it.
Well… Do you want it to be a dedicated NAS, or do you want a generic Debian server? Because those are pretty much mutually exclusive.
You probably want to just stick with Debian for running whatever, and then just present storage over smb, nfs, or whatever.
I think I could probably do with a NAS-type OS with a Debian container.