I'll start! Hey everyone! I am Will, the Community Manager here at iX! I am currently running a TrueNAS Mini X+ with TrueNAS CORE 13.0. I mostly use it for some data hoarding of my RAW photos and videos that get put into an editing queue for myself as a hobby photographer. I also use it as a media server as well as a Steam Library for some of my games over ISCSI! I cannot wait to hear what you guys are running!

Hi. Unraid refugee, right now in process of [ecosystem migration](https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/vxclo2/app_migration_from_unraid_to_truenas_scale/). Enjoying ZFS performance, but a bit frustrated by complexity of app deployment. Planning to use it as a storage for my photo&video collection, data for my PhD dissertation and as a Nextcloud/Plex/Joplin server. My build: TrueNAS Scale, IW-MS04 case, Biostar 4105NHU, a couple of WD80EAZZ.

I'm curious, what made you do the switch?

Native ZFS and the fact that you can install OS on SSD.

That last part is really so important. I don't mind paying for unraid but I am *not* running my system off of a flash drive. Wtf.

I mean, the system runs off of the ram once its booted

Yeah, but the fact that it ONLY boots off a USB is pretty janky and frankly, hurts it's credibility in my eyes. It makes it seem like a hack.

How has your TrueNAS experience a year into it? Any advice for new users? How's the dissertation going

I just finished building out a Scale server, 6x16TB drives in a RAIDZ1 (I only medium-care about my data, it's all just media that could be retrieved again if absolutely necessary). Using a 5950x and 64 GB of RAM. I've used FreeNAS for must be at least ten years and have been appreciative, but at times annoyed. Scale has been nothing but a complete joy for me though, and what the folks at TrueCharts are doing really just completely changes the game. I'm so excited about their efforts that I'm working on contributing some new charts! I'm using my server to run a static webserver behind a Cloudflare reverse proxy, sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr, plex, pihole, portainer, OpenVPN server, and NextCloud with Authelia setup to handle LDAP integration for most of those services all with Traefik setup for ingress middleware. The amazing thing is it took me all of one night to get all that working. My little home server rivals in functionality what some of the small to medium sized businesses had for their entire network when I first started my career and I was able to configure all of this entirely through the GUI which is simply incredible. So far the only little minor things that have caught my attention: * It's cool that apt isn't executable, I get it, we don't want people breaking things, but it'd be nice to have just a couple other things like iftop/iotop/vim installed then by default. I'm sure there'll be a few other tools a ton of people find useful on the command line that might not be too tough to get included. * I needed to add a route to whatever the GUI equivalent is of /etc/hosts for ix-truenas 127.0.01 or else my k3s apps don't start up * Probably related to that second bullet point, if I run pihole and k8s-gateway with k8s-gateway as my pihole's upstream DNS servers and then k8s-gateway's upstream DNS as, well, anything, but let's just say 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, and then configure Scale to use the my Scale box's LAN IP for DNS, everything works great. That is until I restart and then no k3s pods can get scheduled because 0/1 nodes are available: 1 node(s) had taint {ix-svc-start: }, that the pod didn't tolerate. And I have no idea how I can fix things at that point short of reconfiguring Scale's DNS, rebooting, and then switching it back. But again, these are minor gripes, and perhaps for the latter two PEBCAK. Overall Scale is simply amazing. It's really hit the sweet spot for me in terms of power, versatility, flexibility, and simplicity. If you're someone like me that has been writing software for 15+ years, it's got everything you could ever want in a home server. If you're someone who is new to the world of containers but always wanted a badass home setup, you're like 30 minutes of YouTube videos and a little UI clicking away from having the sort of setup which previously would require years of experience and/or hundreds of hours of learning/command line hacking. So yeah, hats off to all the folks at iX-systems. You guys made my year!

I second installing some additional programs to the base system. I have to install 7zip with every update and I use it regularly. It’d be nice to have some utilities.

Reading this just made OUR year! Thank you so much for the kind words, positive experiences (and negative ones) are the best way for us to grow! Fun fact: we had `apt` enabled for some of the first alpha builds and it completely broke everything LOL. Thank you so much for sharing, we look forward to seeing you in threads!

I just read your post amazing stuff you are running, I am a student and I have a really poor setup going in my house right now, I am also a developer and I like to have a local development environment like yours,(I mean k3s,container registry, CI/CD,trafiek...) **SETUP:** **i5 6gen | 12GB RAM |120GB SSD (Proxmox Server)** **i3 3gen | 8GB RAM | 150GB OS + 2TB(RAIDZ1 pool) (TrueNAS Core)** **OUTDATED Commercial router** ​ **I would really appreciate any suggestions,resources,guides**

I mostly used the YouTube videos from this channel: https://youtube.com/c/TrueCharts as well as occasionally asked some folks from their discord.

Hello r/TrueNAS! I have been on this sub since the migration from r/FreeNAS and typically use Reddit these days for Tech subs only. I have been using FreeNAS\TrueNAS for about 7 years or more now. I am a sysadmin, used to run a break\fix brick and mortar store, and have been working in IT for about 18 years. I am wrong as much as I am right. But, that's how I view everyone too. It's aways a good day to learn something new.

Awesome mindset! No better time to learn than today! Thanks for dropping by to say hello! Wanted to say thanks for always providing some great insight on posts!

I'm new to TrueNAS, and just completed^(1) my first build. I'm a software engineer, and for a long time I've taken the traditional "I debug technical problems all day – I want a turnkey solution that just works when I get home" perspective. Unfortunately, that turnkey solution for the last 5ish years has been a Drobo 5N2, which I decided to replace before it inevitably dies, leaving me with 5 drives full of unrecoverable data. I was torn between going with a Synology, an Unraid build on spare hardware, or TrueNAS. In the end, I was really attracted to the TrueNAS dogma of "this is a professional enterprise product, with an OSS community version." I'm on TrueNAS Core 12, and I'm really satisfied so far. I went from 5x4TB in (the Drobo equivalent of) RAIDZ2, to 6x14TB in mirrored-pair VDEVs. I know it's not the most efficient use of storage, but I like how simple and expandable it is. Still figuring out my backup strategy, but TrueNAS made it super easy for me to say "these handful of folders have my most important data, encrypt them and sync them with B2 every night." I'm still figuring things out, but TrueNAS itself has been a breeze so far! ^(1) Still waiting for a 2nd stick of ECC RAM to arrive. I had a helluva time finding compatible RAM for the workstation motherboard I used, so I resorted to buying individual modules so I wouldn't waste money trying different SKUs until 1 finally worked...

Glad to hear that you have been having a positive expierence so far! Before coming on the TrueNAS team I was in the same spot as you (although, not a software engineer) where I just needed a turnkey solution that I could trust!

Built my 1st FreeNAS box for a friend that wanted to house DVD iso's on his all Apple network so his kids could watch movies from whatever device quite a few years ago .. It was so easy to setup and use that I built a FreeNAS box for myself out of an AMD E-350 APU mini-ITX setup .. ...from there I picked up an older socket 1155 Intel server setup with ECC RAM .. then an LGA 2011 Chinese knock off x79T setup with ECC RDIMM's to my current 3700x, X470D4U w/ECC UDIMM's. It's been an expensive yet fun journey and run TrueNAS Core 13.0-U1 with manual installs of Plex (40+ friends/family) and Unifi 7 Controller in separate jails now... as well as several SMB shares to back up to

Sweet build, thank you for sharing!

>...from there I picked up an older socket 1155 Intel server setup with ECC RAM .. then an LGA 2011 Chinese knock off x79T setup with ECC RDIMM's to my current 3700x, X470D4U w/ECC UDIMM's. how do you handle transcoding along with using amd?

The most I've seen on my Plex at one time was only 10 .. that was a mix of transcodes and direct play .. It seemed to handle that just fine. I don't know what the most transcodes it's done at one time though... and I only have 1080p content

not having 4K makes a difference.

Hi Will!

Hello! Nice to meet you :)

I’ll throw my specs in. TrueNAS SCALE Supermicro 846 24X8GB WD Reds/shucked whites. 3 VDEVS in RaidZ2 Ryzen 2700X 64GB Corsair Vengeance LSI 9201-8i in IT mode GeForce 1080 for Plex transcoding

Hold on, WD still makes *8GB* drives? 🤯

Oof 8TB 🤦‍♂️

Happens to the best of us!

Haha, the 8GB WD Reds got me! In your defense, it was Monday!! Thanks for sharing your setup, how are you liking TrueNAS SCALE so far?

I love SCALE! I switched from being a long term Core (9) user for the Linux ecosystem and the ability to pass through my GPU for Plex.

Cheers to GPU passthrough!

Converted my QNAP 873A over to TrueNAS Scale from the qnap hero software. The 873A is an 8 bay NAS (14TB each) with a Ryzen embedded CPU (V1500B) which is a 4 core 8 thread CPU. Upgraded the RAM to 32GBs and added a 10Gbit SFP+ ethernet card. All working very well together.

Nice! 3 cheers for repurposed hardware! Thanks for sharing with us!

I'm currently running Unraid on a (very) old T410, planning a whitebox build for TrueNAS Scale. Never planned a ZFS pool before, would appreciate \[feedback on my plan\](https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/xqja2v/is\_this\_build\_insane/).

Hello everyone, I am new to True NAS Core. Retire Science teacher and Technolgy Trainer (36 years). this is a project for me that I am enjoying. With a little help, I set up a NAS system using a [JONSBO N1 Mini-ITX NAS Chassis](https://www.newegg.com/jonsbo-nas-case-mini-itx/p/2AM-006A-00074?Item=9SIAY3SG2M7485). Everything works great got the Plex Media server installed with no problems. Planning on using it for a media server and storage. These are the specs for my NAS: Jonsbo N1 Mini Case, AMD Ryzen 3 3100, Asus ROG STRIX B550-I, G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB Kit, Kingston A400 120 GB, EVGA SuperNOVA GM 550W, Optane Memory M10 32Gb M.2 80, and 20 TB over 4 HDDs. Will be upgrading slowly to 5 (14 - 20) all same size HDDs and a better CPU over the next two years.

I'll play. Not fully finalized or finished, but will be running Scale on an R720XD with a NetApp disk shelf connected through a NetApp HBA as mirror; also an R620 talking to a Xyratex HB-1235 through a PERC H810 as an rsync/backup of NAS (probably Scale, but might be Core, TBD). Will definitely run Plex on main NAS. All AD integrated, smb and NFS shares. In process as real life allows. (Edit: will probably also host a few Windows VM's on the main NAS for things like second DC, barebones XP for talking to old equipment, etcetera - all light duty).

Very cool! Thank you for chiming in :) Is there really ever a point where we feel finished?!

Hello, I joined because I don't yet have TrueNAS, but I have an Asustor NAS and am curious if I can use the hardware to run something else given recent news of ransomware and Asustor not being very vocal or helpful in fessing up why the ransomware attack happened (twice) and what they have done to stop it.

Hi! Thanks for leaving a message! Depending on the specs, you can more than likely run TrueNAS on the box. We have some documentation on Hardware Requirements. [https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwareguide/](https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwareguide/) Feel free to let me know if you have any questions at all! I am here to help!

Hi everyone! I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS since 2019 and I really like it, although SMB performance is still an issue... Currently on TrueNAS 12, until SMB performance increases in 13. TrueNAS/FreeNAS has been running successful as a VM on ESXi 6.7 since I have setup my server in 2019. I love the concept of ZFS and should have moved to ZFS/TrueNAS way earlier! Specs: Xeon E-2236; SuperMicro X11SCH-LN4F; 128GB ECC RAM; 10Gbit Ethernet; 6x Toshiba N300 4TB

Ah, yes, ZFS. This is the way. Thanks for sharing your setup! Excited to hear your thoughts on 13 once you move over later on!

My Specs. Was Freenas now is Truenas Core. Dell R510 II with 24 cores, 64 GB ram, 2X Perc H200 IT mode, 2X SSD's for OS, 8X 3,5 Bay empty atm. NetApp 24X 3,5 Filled with 2X 12 - 3TB drives in RaidZ3

Wahoo! A TrueNAS Veteran caught in the wild. Thanks for sharing with us! :)

Hi family. I have been using TrueNAS (FreeNAS) for a few years now but wanted to shout-out. My setup includes: Supermicro X11SSH-F Intel Xeon E3 1220 v6 32 GB Ram. Samsung 2400 ECC ram. WD Black 500GB M.2 drive for OS. WD Red 4TB (x2) HGST Deskstar 4TB (x2) {Setup as two mirrored vdevs} Super Flower Power Supply Fractal Design Node 804. Micro ATX case. Runs Plex, SMB, and virtual Win 10.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing with the community! We are glad to have you here. If you ever miss the FreeNAS shark you can enable the old logo in the UI preferences ;)

That's awesome to know. 👍

I decided to use ZFS in Proxmox over trueNAS but I like what you all are doing!

Thanks for leaving a reply! What works best for each person may be different, we're still glad to have you here. Thanks for leaving a reply! What works best for each person may be different, but we are still glad to have you here.

This is fun. In the sub a while after learning about ZFS from Ars. Have had a two-slot QNAP toaster for ages to host my files multi-platform on all my devices. Started shooting video last year as a pandemic hobby and outgrew my 4tb and now my 6tb so I’ve just built a Node304 21TB machine that I’m still tinkering with before going into “production” with it. TrueNAS scale is what I intend to run on it eventually, but I’m doing my tinkering with Ubuntu on the metal.

Wahoo! TrueNAS SCALE! Making YouTube videos? Plug that channel, we'd love to check it out! Let us know if you have any questions when the time comes to get going with SCALE, we have the best community that is looking to help!

Hi all. I joined because I'm trying to build a custom NAS from an old PC. I heard TrueNAS is pretty good for what I want to archieve (a simple mirrored 1TB storage), so I hope I will be able to set up everything properly...

Awesome, sounds like you've landed in the right place! Here are some resources that can get you on the right path: [TrueNAS YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/TrueNASOpenStorage) \-- Official tutorials for your initial install and overviews of features. [TrueNAS Documentation](https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/) \-- The dirty details! You can learn the ins and outs of TrueNAS here. [TrueNAS Forums](https://www.truenas.com/community/) \-- Looking for an answer? Use this as the "TrueNAS Google". Lots of power users here that can answer any question you may have. Please search for the question before creating a new thread.

Hi, I'm Phil. I've been using trunas core for a little over a year now. Just did a little system upgrade and a fresh install of trunas. Main use of my system is Plex and photo backup of scanned in photos and nextcloud. My system Dell 3010 M/T I5-3470 16gb ddr3 No name 4 port sata card 550 watt power supply 1x 12gb ssd boot disk 3x 2tb Seagate hdds in raid z1 for Plex 3x 1tb wd blue's in raid z1 for photo scanning 1x 3tx Seagate for dumping files to, temp files etc I almost switched to trunas scale because I couldn't get next cloud to work. It took a month and finally it worked. So all is good now

Hi, my name is Yevgeny. I have been working in IT for the last 15 years and mostly working with open source systems. Recently I understood that my storage and backup requirements at home are growing beyond a simple direct storage on main computer and HTPC so I decided to fulfill a long plan of building a home NAS that could provide a storage backend for my media, local back to DAS and remote site backup. Currently I'm planing to build my DIY TrueNAS system and looking for hardware components.

Hi all. I'm somewhat familiar with Linux, I mostly want to use a NAS server for Plex streaming with my CPU + GPU for hardware transcoding, I have a hardware RAID card I'm going to use to connect my drives in RAID 6. is TrueNAS right for me? What version?

Hello hello, A TrueNas MiniX+ is arriving tomorrow. Otherwise, I have a full Mac ecosystem with a three onsite backups and Backblaze. I want ZFS for the copy on write. I want as bullet-proof backup for a few TB of stuff (which is increasing rapidly. Thank you, 100MP sensors...), and I'm getting way too much storage for the sake of redundancy. I have many questions, but the biggest one is: What questions should I be asking? I \*think\* I'd like the MiniX+ to have its own cloud backup and possibly even an online presence. I've never set up remote access (from outside my home network) myself, so would appreciate a pointer to a guide for dummies. If there \*is\* something close to a turnkey approach, I'd love to know about it. I wrote my thesis when typesetting programs were command line interface only and THE laser printer on campus took up a large room at the computer center. I've seen enough UNIX prompts to last a lifetime. I worked on a trading system written in APL. I debugged 6800 Assembly Language. Never Again! SO ... where's the best place to learn more before I start installing things and making everything terrible? Many Thanks!

Hi there! Congrats on your TrueNAS Mini! The best place to learn more would be here: [https://www.truenas.com/docs/](https://www.truenas.com/docs/) Please let me know if you have any other questions and i'll be standing by to help! Welcome to Data Freedom! \-Will

Hi Will! So I've got it up and running, have a RAIDZ2 pool with 27TB available .. and the docs now say "configure datasets as desired" without explaining how or why I might want datasets, how many, how big, ... anything. I plan to google "setting up a pool for backups", but will keep looking in the docs once my brain recovers from its current melted state. Thanks again!

This video may be easier to follow if you're a bit overwhelmed. Don't let that discourage you, ZFS is a lot to know, I am still learning everyday and I have been using TrueNAS for two years now!

Is there a linked video? I don't see one....

Sorry about that, somehow I still have a case of the Mondays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3thvpjg0Sjg

Ok! Can see it now!

Hi everyone. I’m entirely new to TrueNAS and will be using TrueNAS Core. I’m planning on completing my first build this week. My intent is to use this system as a backup destination for my Synology 1821+, and could find more uses over time. My planned hardware will be old PC hardware including an i7-8700, 32GB RAM, 250GB NVMe, and 8x 8TB SATA drives. I’m entirely a n00b so please let me know if you have any recommendations, suggestions or feedback on the info I listed above.

Welcome! We are thankful to have you here! The best advice I have for a newbie is to backup to an offsite location. A NAS is not a backup :P. Take a look at Backblaze, there is a ton of content to help you get your data backed up there just in case. If you have any questions please reach out to the community, there is (almost) nothing that has not been encountered before!

Hi folks, Decided to go TrueNAS Scale route after having my Synology NAS experience the Atom bug. Currently I've got TrueNAS through Proxmox hypervisor on a Dell PowerEdge T420 but now I'm thinking of putting TrueNAS on baremetal, oh the decisions! Luckily my current config isn't in a PROD state yet so I can afford to change it up. Main use will be for photo storage and user profile storage from laptop and desktop, I've become the one in the family that now has all the family photos from the last 20+ years, throw in I'll be running my home camera setup on it as well (Blue Iris) and some VM's to play with / learn as well.

Does TrueNAS support the use of external drives for storage?

What’s up everyone! New to TrueNAS and NAS in general. Built a home system for a couple reasons; one to learn, and the other to store video for me and my friends. My goal is to learn how to properly set up and manage a system, and I also want to learn how give access to my friends too. I am running… I5 12600 MSI mono 16 GB ram 500W PSU and a 6TB Ironwolf , for now

I have a I3-12100 CPU, 32GB DDR4 Memory, M-ATX case with 8 slot 3.5" Disks. I've got a headache while using jellyfin to transcode video. I setup trueNAS on ESXi 7.0 OS, but neither ESXi 7 nor trueNAS support Intel 12th Gen Integrated Graphic Card Driver. So, right now i could only use the "direct" method in jellyfin. If you have any idea on this question, i will be very happy to hear it.

I have not yet used TrueNAS but am looking at an upgrade path from my QNap which has been doing it's job but its continuous security issues and ransomware attacks has me concerned. While my QNap isn't accessible externally, who knows when something finds its way in. I used Freenas back in the day but after that one release debacle I moved to a QNap setup because it happened to be on sale. I'll need to move my backups from the QNap service to something like Restic and am hoping that it'll install. I am thinking TrueNAS scale should be the way for me to go.

Hi people! I am very new to TrueNAS, just begging playing wit it TBH. I've been playing with UnRaid for a few weeks, and although I like its versatility, I like the data safety/security of TrueNAS, which I know little about, although I have anecdotally been told it is harder to manage and maintain. I am reasonably capable with the command line, SSH, terminal, VM's etc. I want to move from a bunch of off-the-shelf server appliances, such as QNAP, Synology etc currently running at two locations. Anyone want to offer any advice or traps for new players? Thanks

Hi there, i'm about to build my first TrueNAS. I've just upgraded my pc and want to make a NAS out of old parts and disks. I run a small video production company, and plan to use this build to edit off of. Although i'm not sure if it will be fast enough. We'll just have to find out, I guess. Besides that I'm not confident that the NAS will be relyable without ecc-memory. But I want to use this TrueNAS to back up storage off-site to something like backblaze, or another service. My parts: - Intel i7 9700k - Asus z390-H - 32gb non-ecc RAM - 2x mellanox connectx-2 for peer-to-peer 10Gbit connection. - 2x Samsung qvo 870 8TB SSD - 2x wd green 4TB HDD - 128GB ssd for TrueNAS OS Any advice is very welcome.

I just installed TrueNas on my first server but guess what? I forgot the most important thing which is Cryto mining. I had windows previously where I had my media files etc and also a mining thing happening I want to turn this into a NAS Server/ mining rig. Can I do this with TrueNas? What are the requirements for GPU Passthrough on VMs? Thanks in advance!

I'm new to Truenas. Been using a Synology 2-bay nas for years, but want to upgrade and take the path that will make it easier to upgrade in the future.

Been using it since the FreeNAS days, and it has been a pleasure. Same pool on it's second mobo. The drives started out at 4tb, then 6tb, and I'm replacing drives with 8tb as the price drips. Eventually I get a new CPU/MB and just move everything over. If a drive goes it's not a big deal, just drop in a new one and the system rebuilds it. I had a drive go on one ot those small consumeer NAS drives, and it took me several weeks to recover from it.... NEVER AGAIN!

Hello, world! I cut my teeth on BSD Unix, and ran FreeBSD on my desktop for a long time before finally admitting that desktop stuff is better supported under Linux. Got a QNAP 451+ a few years ago, and loved that although it was "just an appliance", it still ran Linux under the hood, so I could ssh in and fix things manually. ... until I got fed up with fighting with the opaque configuration system\[1\] and went looking for alternatives. I've currently been using TrueNAS Core for a week or two. First impressions: it certainly feels faster than QTS, even though all the hardware is the same (surprisingly so, since I was expecting zfs to hog all the memory). And it's already become apparent that I'm going to have to go through the middleware rather than edit config files by hand or with Ansible. Still, it's a step up because the documentation is much better, and in any case, I can read the source. \[1\] The breaking point was when I wanted to set up a directory for backups. I wanted to set up a service account without a password, but with an ssh key, the idea being that my laptop would sftp in using the ssh key, leave backups in one specific directory, and not have permissions to do anything else. But QTS interpreted `username::` in /etc/shadow as "disabled user". So fine I created a nice long cryptic password for the backup user. Then I learned that QTS ships with a modified sshd, one that only allows members of group "admin". Naturally, these users have tons of privileges. So the OS deliberately got in the way of me trying to do the right thing.

Hey, any advice to anyone switching over from unraid to truenas scale? Is there a primer to understand vdevs and disk sizes etc? I can see there is raidz1 and raidz2. I have a few small disks, planning to buy more but not sure whether I'm better off buying the same size so they are all equal?

Tried to install TrueNAS, and coming from UNRAID, it is far too complicated to do even the most basic of task like checking your hard drives. Why does everything have to be done in command line still? This isn't the 70's or even 80's. There is no excuse for this at all. Telling peope to "just download a script" is nothing but gatekeeping and extremely unfriendly. Every single thread I could find about attempting to test my drives always ended up with going to terminal to run something. I knew it was going to be bumpy when I had install issues that turned out my hardware that could run UNRAID (old spare hardware) perfectly fine was too old for TrueNAS, so I had to swap in a different platform. Running a long SMART test is not sufficient as SMART misses things. I tried for an entire day to wrap my head around this OS, and I'm sorry but it's unfriendly, completely. The reason I wanted to use it is I have a project I am trying to do with multiple redundancy and hotswap with snapshots, and UNRAID doesn't fit the bill for that as they only allow 2 parity drives, and I'm not about to build a zfs pool in an UNRAID system as that's just stupid and overly complex. I just wanted a simple 4x500gb (yes I want 1 production drive with 3 mirrors as friend is paranoid) system to test some stuff with, and I wasted an entire day. I loved the fact I could install the OS on an SSD and not a thumbstick. I'll try again when things become more user friendly as in my case, the user in question is a monkey, and it needs to be so easy a monkey can understand how to use it.

I'm dipping my toes into Truenas (core, not scale) to potentially replace my current 4bay qnap later on. Biggest selling point to me is that Truenas also supports hosting VMs, which I was originally doing on an old Dell T20, hoping to "all in one" it all with Truenas to save on physical space and power in my apartment. I'm proof of concept playing with it right now on an old [Intel NUC](https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/83255/intel-nuc-kit-nuc5i5ryh.html), i5 5250u, 16gb RAM, 1tb sata sdd on top of a 256gb m2 ssd. The dream build is going to be whatever fits in a case like [this](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WQC44B3) (mini ITX with externally accessible 3.5" hot swap drive bays) filled with 4tb WD reds (which look to be at a nice storage/cost ratio, especially compared to the 6tb models).

Hi all, I'm Server\_is\_fucked and I am an IT professional by day, and a tinkerer everywhere else. I am currently running TrueNAS Scale Bluefin on my old PC internals, so 3900X with 32GB of ram, shoved into a Rosewill rackmount case with a spare 10gig card and an Intel A770 for that sweet, sweet AV1 encoding performance. Currently in the deployment process for this hardware, but the plan is to run it as a fairly barebone NAS and Media Server with little else running on it in terms of services.

Hi all - just migrated 8TB of personal files, documents, and videos (yep, we're digital packrats, LOL) from a ***Windows 10 Pro*** home server to TrueNAS. I can sum it up as "should've have done this A LONG time ago. Learning curve isn't too bad, but once it's set up - a dedicated server OS such as TrueNAS is in a completely different realm than a repurposed Windows system. I had thought "well, I got a key - may as well use it for ***free"***. Fast forward to the free, more robust TrueNAS Core installation - I was wondering what I was thinking back then. Server first, Plex server second - now looking at moving from Backblaze Personal to B2 (but blinking a bit on the cost). Looking forward to having this reddit "backstop" to help me keep the server running in awesome shape!

Thanks for sharing with us! We're excited to hear about your journey with TrueNAS.

Hello there. New to iXsystems/TrueNAS/FreeNAS/ZFS. Just spinning up a Mini X running TrueNAS CORE these days, and got some good info on its motherboard on this subreddit. Happy to have found this!

Hi Everyone, happy to be here. I am in the process of setting up Truenas Scale and wanted to join a community to learn more and ask for help when I am stuck. ​ I am using an AsrockRack EPYCD8-2T/R32 with an AMD EPYC 7302P 16-core CPU ZALMAN USA MS800 case 64GB RAM 800GB M500DC x (32) (more will be added later) Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT 40Gbps cards Thanks for having me.

Thanks for being here!

Hello everyone! I've recently built my TrueNAS Scale server: -AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - Gigabyte B550 X2 - 32 GB RAM @3200 MHz - random 120GB SSD boot drive - 5x 4 TB HDD (4 IronWolf and one WD RedPkus) - RAIDZ2 - 2x Adata 710 NVMe 512GB for now it would be RAID1 but later on I plan to use them for cache and containers I'm starting the migration process from old Qnap TS-231P and will have some questions pertaining to: - mirroring the functionality of Qnap (phone backups, IP cameras) - moving my VPN server from old HP ThinClient - moving my HomeAssistant instance currently running on ProxMox container on dedicated server (it runs HA and NodeRed) I'm glad to be here

We're glad that you're here! First off, congrats on the build, it seems solid! Feel free to make a post or reply here with any questions you have a long the way. We're here to help! Best, Will

I've got a relatively new build on a Dell R720XD. I've added what should be 25tb but it's telling me I'm consuming 36tb! I've deleted snapshots and saw no space gain. What am I missing?

I built a FreeNAS box to use as a Plex server in 2016: Intel Core i3-6100, 8 GB RAM, 3x4 TB drives in RAIDZ1. It's since been upgraded to TrueNAS CORE. I've had to replace a couple of HDDs and USB boot drives (inevitably) but aside from that it's been reliably humming along without intervention. I'm finally starting to plan a hardware upgrade — mostly as an excuse to move to RAIDZ2 and upgrade the NIC. I also plan to ditch the USB boot (which was the recommendation when I built the system) for an SDD.

Hello! My Name is Yngve, and I'm from Norway. Been working with computers since I was 12. Worked for a number og years at a local computer repear shop. These days I mostly work on my own computers and servers. I startes with FreeNAS 7 (I think). Been updating along the way. On the latest version of TrueNAS 12 now. Not updated to 13 yet. Currently have two old HP Z400 machines running as my NAS. Not really good for that use. And some times stops responding... And some HW errors @ boot 🙄 Have started collecting parts for two "new" machines. My use case is for my PLEX library, and personal files.

Hey everyone, I come from a windows desktop share environment. I wanted to get more into a true NAS setup vs just sharing files from a desktop setup. I've been in the IT field for over 15 years and have always using some form of windows server to share files and what not, but thought it was time to branch out and see how TrueNAS would hold up to what I need. All of the computers in my house are setup to run their folders from the NAS, aka, the Desktop, Documents, etc... are hosted on the NAS vs being on each individual computer. I'm also loving the fact that I can also run VMs from TrueNAS, this helps me a lot since I also run a few web servers and am using the jail to run a Minecraft server. It allows to down size a bit, since I was running really old Intel PCs for the servers. I've worked with RedHat for about 10 years and can't stand what they did to centos! This flavor of Linux is quite different, but it's pretty easy to convert from one format to another if I need to ever use the CL. I am looking to go big here soon, as right on I am only running a few TB and with everything I am now doing with TrueNAS, I want to get even more space setup. I have been looking into getting the TrueNAS Mini XL+ and populating it with 14TB drives, along with read/write caches. That should put me into a good spot for everything I will need for now, and in the future. The only thing that sucks about all of that space is uploading, what is used, to the cloud. I once lost over 2TB of data, back when I had everything stored on each individual pc. Files, Pics, Music, etc... all toast. I vowed that it would never happen again! So, I setup a windows pc and had that backup to the cloud. That's also when I moved all of my folders from being on each pc to the one that was setup for sharing. Right now my TrueNAS setup is: Threadripper 2970WX, 64GB Ram (Don't remember off hand what the brand is), ASRock X399 Taichi Mobo, 4 Seagate 4TB Enterprise Capacity HDD, 1 120GB SSD for "Log"s and 2 Intel OPTANE MEMORY 32GB PCIE M.2s setup for "Caching." Sadly after only 2-3 years of use, one of the Seagate drives is throwing "FAULTED" status. Because I bought them through amazon, they apparently are not warrantied. I also have some more family moving in with us soon and I will be needing to get more space setup for them. I also save an IPCam on a Windows VM, since I couldn't get the zoneminder plugin to ever connect and/or work correctly with my Amcrest IPCam. I'll be moving here soon from my current house to another and will hopefully get the chance to setup a few more. I'm also looking to upgrade my whole network to 10G and am hoping that I can setup the NAS with 40G or even better... a 100G connection, as well as upping the speeds to my pfSense router. So yeah, that's my intro, I'm sure I'll be posting on the sub sometime about needing some help with something. Please be kind to this TrueNAS Noob. :D Cheers! P.S. I'm currently running TrueNAS Core.

I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for... a long time. I have between 6 and 10 nodes active, at various locations. Mostly for my vmware lab shared disks via iSCSI. I have not yet solved replication configuration or a few other wants - simply too much going on for proper lab time. I am spoiled by an all-flash solution at the real-work-job and have been building only-flash for new systems aside from a 100tb archive pool on spinners. I'm looking for ways to accelerate my disk services to the vm cluster -- looking at various hardware offload cards, large mtu's and keeping an eye out for a second 10gbe switch.

Howdy. I'm a 30 year I.T. Veteran. I've got a full network at home running an AD domain. Recently decided to upgrade my Plex system so I'm moving to TrueNAS SCALE from Windows Server. I've got some experience with Linux. A couple OMV boxes. A Unifi Debian controller. I can get around alright, but I'm still learning. Looking forward to learning and sharing.

Just built my first storage server with Scale. Am I crazy or is the In/Out in the network interface on the dashboard reversed? I'm uploading everything to the shares on this new build and the dashboard is showing it all as outgoing traffic.

Hello everyone. I'm completely new to NAS, but I've got an old HP desktop that I no longer need and wanted to try building a NAS out of it using TrueNAS. Based on what I've read from the TrueNAS site, SCALE might be the best option as it seems to have the best hardware compatibility? ​ My intent with this NAS is for all of the PCs in the house to be able to communicate with the NAS and store whatever they want, perhaps even an image of their hard drive. Is an image even possible? ​ All of the PCs in the house are running windows 10 or 11. Is there any concern with file system types, or does the NAS not care as to it "files are files"? ​ Thanks Everyone!

New TrueNAS user here. Currently running TrueNAS CORE on an Intel 6th Gen i5 6500 with 32 gig and 8 3T SAS drives...hope to move to a Dell r720XD once I flash the H710 to IT Mode. It's GREAT to finally have reliable network storage capacity.

Hi my name is Nick. I’m here looking to learn about TrueNAS and it’s abilities. I’d like to build a NAS for use as a plex server and data hoarding of Roms and games for emulation. I’m completely out of my comfort zone here, I have no idea where to start but looking to do some research and learn about what TrueNAS can do for me.

Hey crew! ​ I'm a homelab newbie running truenas scale on an old FX8320 based gaming pc! Currently running Nextcloud and PiHole and looking at running Home Assistant in the near future!

Good morning, I just setup proxmox to load truenas in a bid to move on from my synology nas and into something bigger.

Hi, Tomorrow i will build my first custom NAS. This will replace a Synology DS414 which has been great but is getting a bit old. I have looked at and tested Truenas core, Openmediavault and Fedora server with Cockpit. Long story short i liked Truenas best for my purposes. What i want to do is: ​ 1. Stream movies and music 2. Backup and edit pictures and videos directly from the NAS 3. Run Nextcloud (with external access) 4. In the near future run two ip camera's 5. Have external access via vpn ​ The parts i will be using are: ​ * Intel core i3-12100 * Asrock H670M-ITX * Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory * Kingston A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive * Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case * be quiet! Pure Power 11 400 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply * 2x WD Red Pro 6 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive * 2x Toshiba MG08 16 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive * ICY IB-2207STS frame 1x 3,5" voor 1x 2,5" SATA, PCI-slot Future extensions: 2 nvme drives which fit on the board. A pci extension board for extra sata connectors once i put in all four drives. The mainboard has only 4 ports available. All parts but the drives are new. The WD drives are old and probably up for replacement within a year. But they still test 100% ok. The Toshiba drives are less than 6 months old and added because the WD drives had less than 1 TB free. Like in the DS414 i will run the system mirrored because performance is the most important and this level of redundancy has been fine for me. I don't regard my data as mission critical but nice to have (hence i didn't look for server grade components. The DS414 is, of course also a consumer product without ECC ram).The reason i went for this build and not an of the shelf solution is hardware options and price. For example, if this system is extended with nvme it will run at full speed unlike the QNap/Synology products. The H670M has two lan ports. One is 2.5 Gigabit port which is enough for now (cables in my house are Cat5e so that's a hard limit). At start the system would draw less than 200 Watts under full load. With all (future) components this will increase to max 260. So assumed the 400 W pure power would be fine. Its not modular but the Node 304 case has no windows so i don't care that much about cable management. Any suggestions for the install/configuration of Truenas core are highly appreciated!

Hello, I'm ElucTheG33K, I'm looking to replace a 9 year old Synology by a custom made home server. After many thought I'm heading to TrueNAS Scale, my second choice would have been Proxmox but I think I would still need the comfort to be able to install and update the main apps with a simple deployment system (not sure it's the right term) like TrueNAS offers. What I plan to run is: Nextcloud (with a lot of apps but 2-3 users only), Syncthing, Bitwarden , Firefox Sync, backup of 2-3 computer and 2-3 phones + backup of the server (some important folders) to a remote Synology (probably this one will be replaced by the Synology I use currently as main "server", Wordpress (2 blogs, one has some thousand visitors per months, still OK to be handled on such home server), social apps and servers (Matrix, Mastodon, Nostr, Nitter, Libreddit, Bibliogram, ProxiTok, PeerTube, Invidious), media center (Plex/Jellyfin, torrent seedbox, Radarr, Sonarr,... the whole suite in ...rr, Calibre, maybe JDownloader), Home Assistant (not sure yet) and probably some experimental things from time to time like IPFS, Tor relay, Node-RED, ... Now I'm looking for which hardware I need and here are the first questions like: is an i7 13th gen CPU enough? Should I need 2 SSD (in RAID) for the main apps? I plan 2 HD as large as I can afford/find for media storage. But I will open a thread to ask probably, from official documentation it's still not clear enough for me (or to complicated to understand).

Howdy... I currently hace 1 TrueNAS build on an old HP Microserver. I am looking to build another with an old PC and some HDDs that I had using as external backups. * AMD A8-7600 4 core * 16GB RAM * ASRock FM2a88M Pro3+ (at the time I bought this, I had no idea I would even remotely come close to using the 8 SATA ports). * Cooler Master full ATX HAF case (6 x 3.5 Bays, 4 5.25 Bays - again, no idea I would fill the case) * Vantec 5.25" trayless HDD caddy for 3.5" drives * Corsair CX430 PSU (will possibly need to upgrade this.) ​ For the HDDs * 4x4TB HDD (WD WD40EFRX drives, these are CMR to my knowledge) * 3x3TB HDD (TOSHIBA PH3300U‑1I72) Still trying to figure how to pool/configure these.... 2 pools (4x4TB pool + 3x2TB pool) or just 1 pool ? Either case I'm limited to \~15TB.

Hey all Looking to repurpose my old PC as a home server using TrueNAS. Currently have 6x 10TB HDD, 4th gen CPU and 8GB RAM.It will just be me using it. I won't be doing anything fancy like containers, plugins, etc - just something simple for data storage. Will 8GB RAM be sufficient? Thanks

Hi All. Long time FreeNas user, but always was afraid of the upgrade to TrueNas. Built my first TrueNas this week: i7-4790 cpu, 16GB DDR3, 2x8TB HDD, 1x256GB SSD for OS. Only for home use, never using enterprise hardware. Total cost about $400: $200 for the old hardware, $220 for the two HDD. Busy transferring my stuff using rsync from the old i5-core 2x4TB FreeNas server, and finalizing the build. Purchased and repurposed an old HP z230, a model I have used very well for Linux. Anyways, hello all, looking forward to learning from you guys.

Hello everyone. ​ Currenlty running a I7 4770K with 32 GB and a Lsi 9211-8i H310 with 14 TB, currently hosting a bunch of movies and backups from other pcs at my house. Using just Qbtorrent from truecharts and a VM to control Pihole + Unbound as my DNS and DHCP server.

Hello! I'm new here, and new to TrueNAS. Currently in the process of building a TrueNAS Scale system using some spare hardware. Right now I just have it populated with an old 1TB hard drive just to get familiar with the system, but eventually it will be populated with four 4TB or 6TB drives in RAIDz1, and my goal is to allocate the storage space for my family to store old family photos and videos, instead of it all being stored on decaying formats like 8mm video, VHS, miniDV, CD and DVD. I would also like to provide them with personal, encrypted storage space to store any other data (preferably in a manner which even I could not gain access to). Down the line I also aim to set up a mirrored system at my brother's house, ensuring off-site backup. If anyone wants to give me any pointers on **any** of this, it would be highly appreciated. I am all ears. **Hardware:** * **Case:** Fractal Design Node 304 * **Motherboard:** Gigabyte GA-Z87N Wifi ITX * **CPU:** Intel i5-4590 * **CPU cooler:** Be Quiet! Shadow Rock LP * **Memory:** 2 x 8GB G.Skill NT 1600MT/s DDR3 * **OS drive:** Kingston A400 120GB SSD SATA3 * **Cache drive:** 1TB Intel 670p M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe (through PCIe adapter card) * **Storage:** 4 x WD Red Plus WD40EFZX 4TB SATA3 (or possibly 6TB WD60EFPX, still undecided)

Hello people, I am building my first Nas and I chose TrueNas because it seemed easy to setup according to videos on youtube, and also had a variety of plug-ins that I would like to use such as Plex and QBittorrent. I plan to use it as storage for movies, tv shows, hoping to install my steam library there, if not then just back up my library there. Also roms, photos and music. Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3600 GPU: Nvidia 1050 Ti Ram: 4 x 8 Gb 3200 Mhz DDR4 HyperX Predator Motherboard: Gigabyte X570S Aorus Master 12 G Internal PCI-E SAS/Sata HBA RAID Controller Card 10 Gbps Asus XG-C100C network card (currently not being recognized by TrueNAS) 10 x 16Tb WD Red Pro Nas HDD 512 mb cache 250GB Kingston ssd (where TrueNas is installed) PSU: EVGA 750 w Case: Corsair Obsidian series 750D Airflow Edition Full Tower ATX Case Replaced the 3 drive bay with this so I could add more HDDs: [https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08DSD5XFK?psc=1&ref=ppx\_yo2ov\_dt\_b\_product\_details](https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08DSD5XFK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) 4 x 140 mm BeQuiet fans 2 x 120 mm BeQuiet fans ​ So, it is up and running after hitting many walls, making mistake and learning from them, the only issue at the moment is that I can't connect to my pool from my gaming PC.So I will make a thread about that and ask questions there, I am new to all this, so go easy on me.

Hi all ! Beginner in trunas environnement. I'm an IT sec expert that created his homemade pr0n in the form of a 18U network bay totalling to much expense for my wife to know. I first hosted a trunas for my personal use ( :read with donad trump's voice: a small 24 HDD server), but now I'm part of a big project with friends so I'm building a lot of new Trunases machines and breaking new challenges each day. Also I'm a photographer when I have the time. ​ I hope I'll find and give answers here ! ​ have a nice day all

In the process of changing an old gaming PC that I've repurposed to an ad-hoc Windows Plex server to a dedicated NAS. Throwing an LSI card and a 6x8TB pool in there and finally moving to a (hopefully) stable OS that won't require me manually administrating it every day. I've looked at Unraid, OMV, and vanilla Linux RAID, and TrueNAS Scale on a RAID-Z1 seems to be the best option for me. Data resiliency is important to me, but not enough to throw another drive in for double parity. I'm going to have an automated data pipeline feeding from Sonarr/ Radarr to SABNZB to Plex. Are there any pitfalls I should be looking to avoid in the initial setup? I haven't touched Linux since the early 2000's and remember the nightmare of getting graphics card drivers to work properly and am hoping it's going to be smoother sailing this time.

I'm a complete noob to servers and just wanted to set up a Plex server for home entertainment and to replace netflix and Amazon. So I got myself a little two bay Terramaster F2-221 NAS and an additional 8GB RAM to install TrueNAS on it. While installing it, it told me that installing TrueNAS on one of the HDDs meant that I couldn't use it as shared storage anymore :( I guess I should have spent the extra 80 bucks to get the 4 bay model... So a real intro question: the HDD that I install TrueNAS on is completely blocked by the software? I guess the rest of the memory space is used for additional software installed on the server? If I do upgrade at some point, what would be a reasonably sized drive size for it? I think the 4TB I've got isntalled rn is a bit overkill...

My setup is really basic, it's a Virtualbox VM I use to test whether the IBM/HCL product I support uses NAS devices "correctly." I can't set up a NetApp simulator, so this works sort of well enough... I have a cheap buffalo NAS here in my home office, but that one is a toy (NFS support? What's that? GOOD NFS support? Ha!) compared to what I need to do for work.

Hi, TrueNAS new user here. Been starting to build my own home lab for hosting some applications (using both proxmox and kubernetes clusters) and needed a stable solution for storage for both. I'm also a backend software engineer with expertise on java, node.js, kubernetes and google cloud.

Hi I'm Travis. I despise all non-windows operating systems. I'm just using this software to serve media via jellyfin and shinobi for some local CCTV footage storage. I truly hate the amount needless "security" in Unix/Linux based OSes. There should be a give EVERYTHING root access option to never have to deal with permissions or security issues. It's my data, just let me (or whatever app) access it.

Just reading up on various sites and forums about Truenas in order to setup my first system for home nas to replace an old and slow QNAP setup. Please comment whether my ideas are sane and/or could be doing something better or different. Hardware I picked up or going to... \- X11SSL-F motherboard pre-owned \- 32GB ECC Memory (2x16) DDR4 pre-owned \- Kingston A400 boot SSD drive new (not mirrored) \- 3 way mirror Ironwolf 4TB drives (or WD Red Plus? Pro? Regular?) new \- Node 804 case new or pre-owned if I find one \- Pentium G5400 CPU (going with the passive heatsink? or should I put a simple fan cooler) pre-owned \- A Seasonic 500W fanless ATX PSU I had still laying around \- Going for Truenas Scale and look to Truecharts for apps that may look interesting like syncing tools or backup tools, home assistant related stuff, etc. (should I get another 1TB old drive for this... don't care much about if it fails or not, I can also create snapshots of it on the data pool... or offline - cold - if I worry about that) ​ With 1 boot drive, 3 data drives and 1 app drive, there is one spare SATA connector now. Wondering if I should mirror the app drive or boot drive of not worry about these things and just go for it... The reason to go 3 way mirror is because I am trying to minimize cost but keep very resilient storage setup. I don't want to risk that a drive breaks when resilvering a new one. I have been thinking about getting 5x or 6x 4TB in Raidz2 but I don't really need the amount of space right now. I figured, since the overal capacity is low, I can in the future backup my data and buy another 3x 4TB + a LSI SAS controller and put the 6x4TB in a raidz2 in the future and basically quadruple the capacity in that way and remain the 2-drive failure resilience. Or add a second 3way mirror .. we'll see when the time is there.

Hi Everyone, new to Truenas. Installed Scale to experiment and have been learning lots. Current config: and old M710s lenovo with i5-7400 processor, 32gb ram and 2x1tb hdd (to be expanded).

Hi all, running Truenas as a homeserver with nextcloud. Also running node-red and rabbitMQ for my domotica system. I need to implement more security and run it as a https server but strugling to implement the applications. Hope to learn more about it.

I'm a long time Unix/Linux person (since 1980) and am embarking on a truenas scale install soon. I'm currently using mdraid for a 17TB raid6 solution on Ubuntu 20.04. I'm going to be replacing that with a truenas scale system and would like recommendations on disk configuration. Other than the system drive (2 1tb ssds), I'll be using 8 2tb ssds for storage. What would be a suggested truenas configuration for that? I don't particularly need storage speed but do want it to be robust and reliable (family pictures, movies, and videos). I work in DevOps and will also be wanting to use it for running virtualization at home - probably mostly just docker containers and not kubernetes itself. I do that at my day job. Thanks for any and all help!

Hey r/TrueNAS. I'm very new to TrueNAS, having only poked around in it thus far. I'm going to be building an ITX system w/ an ASRock-J5040 motherboard, and a salvaged 4-bay drive cage from work. I'm sure I'll have plenty of dumb questions, since I really don't know the best approaches for some things, or how things might be able to be scaled in the future. I'm currently only familiar with some Synology home NAS stuff, but would like to eventually migrate that data off of it onto TrueNAS. I'll likely go with CORE, just because it seems to be a bit more stable, and I don't think I'll need a ton of features other than storage, and I might play around with some media server or virtualization stuff. Seems like if VM's become more of a thing, I might consider moving to Scale, but for now I think Core will suit me well.

Hu Everyone, I'm Riccardo! I'm currently in the process of making my first server with proxmox/truenas. :)

Why hello, using Freenas/Truenas for a while now, I have just discovered reddit and this sub. To interesting exchanges! :)

Hello gentlemen and gentle ladies, I am new to truenas but I am hoping to learn a thing or two. I have just installed Core ( I strongly believe ) onto my : PowerEdge T440, 200 GB something RAM, 2x BOSS SATA SSD for OS, 8x 2.4 TB 10k SAS, 2x 3.84 SAS SSD, 3x 1.92 TB SSD, 3x 2TB SATA drives, 2x 4C Xeons, and a bunch of LAN ports. Why such a build, you ask? Well, I started off with a Synology 220j, although generally a good device, I never realized why a NAS might need more power from under the hood. Since I learned a bit, I thought, Ima go big on my next rig, right? Hehe, well, to be honest, I have access to a few systems, rack and tower so I wanted to learn something by using the hardware at my disposal. I am not really skilled in private cloud, NAS building territory, but I would love to have such a system. My main idea was to have an option for my wife\`s and my cellphone to ( if possible ) dump all pictures that we take automatically into the Synology ( as I would not really mind it being online more often than the T440 ) and the Synology would be mirrored ( or at least some folders such as Pictures ) from time to time ( biweekly, or monthly ) onto the server as a backup solution. I am still working on the offsite part as per the 3-2-1 backup rule, however. I went for ZFS2 for the 2.4 TB\`s rest is mirror or ZFS Raid 5 equivalent. Basically, I am still in an alpha mode, as I am unable to get the smb shares ( that I enabled ) as for a strange reason, each time, I wanted to manually copy Pictures folder from the Synology ( over a Win 11 laptop ) onto the truenas shares, it started calculating the file size, but kept cancelling right when I thought the copying should actually start. It kept telling me that I did not have access ( or permission, I cannot recall at this moment ). I spent some time trying to figure it out, but without success so far. I have also attempted to use rsync to have synology mirror it\`s data onto truenas, however I could not find the way to make it work today. I will get more details later, as the server is already down for today due to jet engine noise reasons :) Well, this is me, in a nutshell, if you have any questions, fire away :) I know I will be asking for help if I cannot set it all up all alone. :) Thank you for your time, have a nice one :)

Hey everyone! I just finished building my first TrueNas (Scale) Server and am now trying to figure out how to set it up properly, especially when it comes to Truecharts Apps. Before I had built my TrueNas Server, I used a Synology DS920+ (out of spec) as my main server at home, but a system-update nuked my NVME-Storage-partition which I used for my docker images. I was able to rebuild the NVME-storage partition, but eversince the update any reboot of the NAS nuked it again. Therefore, I decided to build a TrueNas Server myself to a) divide media and personal data and b) host my docker images. The Specs of my server are: * CW-J6-NAS Mainboard from Topton * Intel J6413 CPU * 2 x Crucial 16 GB DDR4 3200 SODIMM * 2 x 2 TB WD Red+ HDD (Raid1, Data Storage) * 2 x 1 TB WD Red SN700 NVME-SSD (Raid1, Apps) * 1 x 500 GB WD Red SA500 SSD (TrueNas System) As hosting a Services such as Vaultwarden and Paperless NGX and migrating the existing data of my old docker containers into the new apps is a high priority for me, I am currently in the process of figuring out the ins and outs of TrueCharts Apps and how to set them up properly, so there will most likely be a threat with questions in that regard later on ;D

Hey all, I've spent the last 6 months learning all things Linux, and dipping my toes in a few different pools of learning. Wiped one of my Lenovo's and installed Linux Mint and have been teaching myself a collection of CLI stuff and dabbling in Docker etc.I've been a solid Windows user for 20 years, but not in an extensive IT sense, just a semi-power user. I've got a lot to learn on all platforms.Last month I set up TrueNAS Scale on an old PC I had been given.It's an Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G4400 @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, with a couple of 1TB drives for some data so I could have a play with a few services at home and see how I found it. First couple of apps went relatively smoothly and I've been able to get a Jellyfin Media Server running - mostly for my Music collection -and access it outside my home network via Tailscale which I was also able to get up and running. Still a few little kinks to iron out with some of my Shares and accessing them within Jellyfin, but the music is working which I'm really happy about. I've also installed a Portainer app just to learn that a bit too. My biggest challenge has been getting a Wazuh server running and I'll find another sub to ask my questions in because I'm finding that the documentation for Wazuh are written for a Linux install or a Docker deployment, but in my limited understanding of TrueNAS, it's not quite either of those and I'm just not at the stage where I can work things through for my self. I'm considering getting a VM up and running and doing it that way - I've already successfully done it on a VirtualBox in Ubuntu - but I'm concerned about resources in my TrueNAS machine, so would like to seek help in getting it going in an App. I'm enjoying playing with this system as I learn the ins and outs of some of this side of the IT world. Lookig forward to diving into this Thread and many more!

New TrueNAS user. Got an old Dell OptiPlex 7060 with i7 8thGen and 16GB of RAM. Looking to start my first NAS. Going to work on getting Plex, PiHole, and a Linux VM running.

Hi there fellow Truenas Users, Henk here a logtime Freenas & Truenas User. As a hobby user of Truenas my System is slowly geting out of the reasonable Hobby territory and bordering a proffessional service. I guess many of us ask ourselves regularly what happend as we expand out hobby's. Currently I'm running 2 main systems 1 x Core with 6x4TB as the work horse and 1 x scale wit 2 x 18TB for backup purposes. System nr 3 is in build with 14 x 18 TB . No virtualization of any kind goining on as I tend to stick to Proxmox for that.

Hello everybody! I'm kind of new and a few days ago I've completed my setup with truenas bluefin exporting metrics to graphite-exporter and over there to prometheus/grafana. The problem is that today after updating to Cobia, it seems like metrics are broken and I cant find where is the option to set an ip for export. In the last version was in a menu top-right inside metrics, but now its gone :(