Thanks Matt!!

I have an old dell running an i5 4 cores/4 threads, 16GB of RAM, and 
will handle 2 drives.  I guess I can use a 1TB spinner for booting and a 
8TB spinner for data.  Thant would meet my needs.

Your NAS sounds sounds nice!!

Keith


On 2024-09-07 09:53, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss 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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