I forgot to mention something very important:

TrueNAS requires an ethernet connection for networking. It will not 
behave nicely if your NAS requires wireless networking. If you need a 
NAS connected wirelessly, you'll either need to use a dedicated network 
bridge of some kind (like a mesh network), or you'll need to use 
something other than TrueNAS.

-Matt



On 9/7/24 09:53, Matthew Crews wrote:
> 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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