Matt, thank you for that feedback. It will be wired.
Thanks!!
Keith
On 2024-09-07 09:55, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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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