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Your data is yours again.
A complete NAS on your own machine: storage, apps, virtual machines, cameras, backups and your personal cloud. All from the browser, with no subscriptions and without your files passing through anybody else's server.
One single payment · updates included · 60 days to try it
Try it right here
Four apps from the panel, running right here. Pick disks, install an app, share a folder, start a backup.
1 · Pick the disks
2 · How much safety you want
—usable space
—disks it can lose
Pick at least one disk to start.
Preparing the disks…
● ONLINE
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That's it. Now you create shared folders inside it and reach them from Windows, your phone or the panel itself.
Pick an app · it installs itself
ImmichYour photos, without Google
NextcloudA cloud for documents
Home AssistantHome automation
VaultwardenPasswords
Pi-holeAn ad-free network
Each app ends up with its own shortcut on the desktop and its data inside your volume, not on the system disk.
1 · Give it a name
2 · Who gets in
It already shows up in Windows Network and in the Finder, at that path. Permissions, recycle bin and public links are set afterwards, folder by folder.
1 · Where the backup goes
Working out what changed…
Every version restores in full or file by file, and only takes up what changed. The check afterwards is not decoration: an unverified backup is a hope, not a backup.
This is a demo: the disks and the apps are made up and nothing is touched. The maths and the stages are the ones the system really does.
0 €a month, ever
+1.000apps you can install
13apps in the panel
100 %on your own machine
Easy all the way through
Twelve areas, one single way to handle them: from the browser.
- StorageZFS and Btrfs pools with a RAID wizard, snapshots and SMART.
- FilesShared folders with permissions, SMB, NFS and WebDAV.
- GalleryYour photos and videos by month, with albums and favourites.
- Your cloudsDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox or S3 as just another folder.
- Package centreOver a thousand ready-made apps, installed in one click.
- Virtual machinesWindows or Linux on KVM, with the screen inside the panel.
- CamerasONVIF and RTSP video surveillance, recording to your own disk.
- BackupsTo a disk, to another machine or to the cloud, with versions.
- Access from outsideWireGuard VPN, dynamic DNS and real certificates.
- SecurityTwo-factor, a firewall and anti-ransomware protection.
- Control panelUsers, groups, alerts, UPS and kiosk mode.
- MonitorWhat is happening now and what happened last night, with history.
Everything it does, one by one
No asterisks, no Pro edition and no features you unlock by paying more. This is what you get from day one.
Storage
Your disks become one volume with the redundancy you choose, and from then on you forget about them. The wizard tells you how much usable space each option leaves you before creating anything, which is when knowing it helps.
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- ZFS and Btrfs, with RAID 0/1/5/6/10 and its equivalent in each
- Scheduled snapshots: getting back yesterday's file is one click
- SMART and scrub with real progress and a notice when they finish
- Swap a disk while it runs, without shutting the machine down
- Instant detection when you plug in a new one
- Space report: which folders take the room, per-user quota and duplicates
Files
A real file explorer inside the browser: drag, drop, rename, compress. And the same folders show up on Windows, on a Mac and on your phone, with the same permissions.
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- SMB, NFS and WebDAV on the same folder, without setting it up three times
- The NAS shows up on its own in Windows Network and in the Finder
- A recycle bin per folder, which you can turn off on the ones you do not want it
- Share links with an expiry date and a password
- Zip and unzip without downloading anything
- Search by name and inside the contents of the files
- Permissions per user and per group, folder by folder
- Notepad: change a
.txtor a.confright there, without downloading it
Gallery
The photos and videos already in your folders, sorted by month and with their own viewer. This is the app that brings the family into the NAS: it opens from a phone, it does not expire and it pays no fee.
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- A timeline by month, built on its own in the background
- Videos too, streamed in pieces: a 3 GB one is not downloaded whole
- iPhone HEIC, RAW and ProRAW from your camera: shown without converting anything
- Live Photos: one photo that moves, not a photo and a video twice over
- Real albums, without moving a single file on the disk
- Favourites, rotate, zoom, full screen and download from the viewer itself
- Duplicates: it groups what is repeated and never lets you delete the last copy
- Upload from the app, and whatever you delete goes to the NAS recycle bin
Your clouds, as just another folder
Connect your Drive, your Nextcloud, Dropbox or an S3 bucket and they show up in the explorer as a NAS folder. Copying from the cloud to the disk is a drag and drop. And they show up from Windows too, because to the system they are an ordinary folder.
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- Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Nextcloud, S3, Backblaze B2 and more
- Your personal cloud, separate from where your backups live
- You browse them from Files, over the network and from the search box
- They can be used as the source of a backup
Package centre
Over a thousand apps ready to install: Jellyfin, Immich, Home Assistant, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, qBittorrent, Pi-hole… One click and it works, with its shortcut on the desktop and its data inside your volume.
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- Our own catalogue plus the community ones, searchable and by category
- A visual editor for ports and folders, without touching YAML
- A
docker-composeeditor for the advanced bits, if you want it - Containers you created by hand: they also show up as an app with their own link
- Everything lives in your volume, not on the system disk
Virtual machines
Windows, Linux or whatever you need, on KVM, with the screen inside the panel. No client to install, no ports to open and no leaving the browser.
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- A built-in graphical console, from your phone as well
- Boot from an ISO and have it ejected on its own when the install finishes
- Processor, memory and disks all set from the panel
- Their disks live in the volume, with whatever redundancy you gave it
Cameras
Real video surveillance, with your cameras and without the manufacturer's cloud. Your NAS records them, on your disk, and nobody else sees them.
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- Any ONVIF or RTSP camera, and they are found on the network on their own
- A configurable wall and full screen
- Continuous recording in chunks, with retention by days and by size
- Motion detection so you jump straight to what happened
- A thumbnail for every recording and a filter by date and time of day
- The recordings are just another folder: reachable from Files and over the network
Backups
What separates a NAS from an expensive disk. Automatic backups to another disk, to another NAS over SSH or to the cloud, with versions you can go back to.
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- A local, SSH or cloud destination (any provider)
- Incremental versions: each one restores in full and only takes up what changed
- Retention by number of versions or by days
- Real progress while it copies, and a check that what is over there matches what is here
- Object Lock on S3 and B2: not even you can delete a backup before its time
- Restore from the panel, the whole thing or just what you pick
Access from outside
Reaching your NAS from the street without opening the door to the internet. The VPN is the recommended way and it takes three clicks, with a QR code for your phone.
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- A WireGuard VPN with clients by QR code and configurable routes
- Dynamic DNS so you get there by name even when your IP changes
- Let's Encrypt certificates, with DNS validation that does not need open ports
- A reverse proxy to publish one app with its own domain
- Local DNS and DHCP, static routes and network card bonding
Security
A NAS keeps what you cannot afford to lose. This one takes that seriously out of the box, not as a list of boxes you have to go and find.
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- Two-factor and a configurable password policy
- Automatic blocking of whoever keeps trying, on the panel or over SSH
- A firewall that opens the port only when you turn the service on
- Anti-ransomware: snapshots not even the administrator can delete
- Jailed SFTP, with no access to the rest of the system
- An audit log of everything that gets touched, downloadable
Control panel
Thirty screens so you never have to open a terminal. And if you like the terminal, it is there too, with root and a second sign-in.
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- Users and groups, with per-service permissions on each
- Join an existing Active Directory / LDAP
- Alerts over Telegram, Discord, ntfy or email, with a delayed digest
- UPS: an orderly shutdown when the power goes
- Kiosk mode: the panel full screen on the machine's own monitor
- Region, language, themes and accent colour — light and dark in all of them
Monitor
What is happening now and what happened last night. With nothing else to install.
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- Processor, memory, network and the temperature of every disk, with history
- Threshold alerts before it becomes a problem
- Who is connected, from where and since when
- Network diagnostics: ping, ports and speed, from the panel
Coming from a Synology, a QNAP or from nothing at all?
The same as a brand-name NAS does, on the computer you already own.
If you already have a brand-name NAS
Synology DSM and QNAP QTS do their job, and they do it well: that is why LGM-OS is like them in what matters —shared folders over SMB and NFS, backups with versions, apps in containers, cameras, virtual machines and access from outside your home, all from the browser—. The difference is in two places: here you choose the hardware (a mini PC, a second-hand server, the laptop you were about to throw away) and you pay once. And when a model stops getting updates, the machine does not turn into a paperweight: underneath it there is an ordinary Debian.
LGM-OS is an independent project. It is not affiliated with Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS or Unraid, and those names are trademarks of their owners.
If you are starting from scratch
A home NAS server is a computer switched on in a corner that keeps everyone's things: the photos from your phone, the documents, the laptop backups, the camera recordings. LGM-OS is the operating system that turns it into that without knowing any Linux: you install it on Debian, open the panel in your browser and start clicking.
- An old PC or a mini PC will do: 64-bit, 4 GB of memory and one disk for data
- Disks on Btrfs or ZFS, with snapshots and integrity checking
- Your photos with their own gallery, and the phone uploading them on its own
- Docker and thousands of apps from the catalogue, with no command line
- Your own VPN to get in from outside without opening your home to the internet
What people ask before making up their mind
Does it work as a file server for a small office?
Yes: users and groups with per-folder permissions, a recycle bin in each one, quotas, a log of who signs in, and joining a domain (Active Directory, LDAP) if the office already has one.
Can I stop paying for cloud storage?
That is the idea: your files on your disks, reachable from your phone and from outside your home. And if you want belt and braces, the NAS can keep an encrypted mirror in the cloud you already use, without depending on it.
What if a disk breaks?
With two or more disks in a mirror, nothing is lost: you swap the disk from the panel and the set rebuilds itself. The panel warns you through SMART before it happens.
And on your phone, an app
It is not the desktop squeezed down: on narrow screens the panel changes shape —a home screen with icons, every app full screen and a bar at the bottom—. You add it to your phone's home screen and it opens without the browser bar, like any other app.
Buy a licence
What you pay once against what you pay forever
A paid cloud
- A fee, every month, forever
- They decide the price, and it goes up
- Your files are on somebody else's server
- If you stop paying, you lose access
- 2 TB, and beyond that a bigger fee
LGM-OS
- One payment and that is it. Updates included
- The price you paid is the price
- Your files are at home, on your disk
- If you stop paying… there is nothing to stop paying
- As much room as fits on your own machine
Lifetime licence
10 € Free
campaign running · it activates when you sign up
- Every feature, with no limits
- Updates included for life
- Checked on your own machine, without depending on the internet
- Transferable: if you change machine, it goes with you
- 60 days to try it before you buy
Secure payment with Stripe · we do not store your card
You pay once and that is it
No fees and no surprises. You buy the licence, you get your key and you paste it into your NAS (Control panel → System → Licence). Done.
Would you rather look first? The installer is a free download and all the documentation is open, with no sign-up. And if you already have an account, sign in to the portal to see your licences.
The usual questions
What machine do I need?
Any 64-bit PC with 4 GB of memory and a disk for the system. A second-hand mini PC is plenty; if you are going to run virtual machines or several cameras, make it 8 GB. The installer takes care of the rest.
What if the machine breaks? Do I lose the licence?
No. The licence is yours and transferable: you deactivate it on the old machine from the portal and activate it on the new one. And your data stays on the disks, which you can move to another machine running LGM-OS.
Does it need the internet to work?
No. The licence is checked on your own machine, with a cryptographic signature, so the NAS works just the same offline. The internet is needed to install apps or to reach it from outside, not to start it up.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. The installer is a free download and comes with 60 days to try it, everything unlocked, no card and no sign-up.
I already have a brand-name NAS. Can I migrate?
Yes. You copy the data over the network (SMB or rsync) from the old NAS and rebuild the shared folders here with their permissions. The documentation has the step-by-step guide.
What happens if you disappear tomorrow?
Your NAS keeps working. It is built on Debian, ZFS, Samba and Docker —all standard, all free software—: your disks can be read on any Linux and your apps are ordinary containers. There is no proprietary format to rescue you from.
Questions, ideas, or a look at how someone else set it up?
There is a community on Discord: ask without fear —even what you think is a silly question—, people show their setups and new versions are announced there.
Your cloud, at home. Forever.
60 days to try it. No card. No fees afterwards.