6 reasons you should use Ubuntu for your own NAS

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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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