TrueNAS is intended for a "set it and forget it" environment, and NOT 
for people that like to tweak. It requires a boot drive and *separate* 
storage drives (if you only have a single drive, you can't use TrueNAS).

I use it for my new NAS (256gd NVMe boot drive, 6x 6TB drives in a 
RAIDZ2) and it works great. Literally don't need to look at it except 
for drive maintenance, container maintenance, and the occasional OS update.

If you don't want that, and you want a more DIY, you will use something 
else.

My personal preference is Debian over Ubuntu, but both are effective and 
I won't fault someone for using one over the other.

-Matt


On 9/6/24 12:55, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thanks Alexander, Ted, and Rusty!!
>
> I took a quick look at TrueNAS and it appears the boot drive is only 
> for booting?
>
> I've got lots of 1TB and less drives so that would not be a problem.
>
> I have a 10 year old Dell i5 4 cores/4 threads with 16GB of RAM, which 
> will take two drives.  I also have an 8GB backup drive that I have 
> never used. I haven't opened the box.  I got it on a very good sale so 
> I bought it. I could use that drive.  I seem to recall that at some 
> point the bigger drivers would not work well with old hardware.  I 
> hope that is not an issue.
>
> My daily driver is also an old Dell running Kubuntu 24.04.  I have a 
> Win10 laptop and my wife has a Win11 computer.  I'd like to connect 
> all three.
>
> Any thoughts are much appreciate!!
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
>
>
> On 2024-09-05 17:05, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> On 9/5/24 08:22, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> ...
>>> I'm not sure there is a benefit of using Linux with SMB and/or NFS 
>>> other than having more exposure to Ubuntu.
>>>
>> I'd say performance will be better with Linux (or other unix-like OS) 
>> than almost any other OS you can come up with. Usually, anyway.
>>
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