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I would avoid using a laptop as you would need usb adapters and those are pretty finicky unless you run windows and then your nas software in hyper v. I am not aware of specific sellers but usually going to Facebook market place might get you the best deal and if you can get them to show you it running is probably the safest bet. Then you wouldn't pay shipping.

Fair enough, wasn't sure what your time frame was like. What sort of budget excluding drives are you looking at and how many drives? Getting a used optiplex with an i5 that can support the amount of drives you want is probably the most adorable method. You can usually get these used pretty cheap depending on your country.

You might want to look into the new offering from ugreen in Kickstarter now. It has docker support so you can run plex and minecraft docker servers with it.

Like the other reply, I would suggest switching to scale over core. As for remote access, you can run a wireguard or openvpn server to connect back home to it. That can be hosted on truenas itself or if your router can act as a VPN server it can do it as well. Alternatively, you can look into something like tailscale as well.

That is interesting. Don't know then where to go next being familiar with it.

From that error, it appears it's looking for mods.toml and that file is not present. I am not familiar with that server though.

What is that from? There might be some conflicting settings causing that not to work. Check to measure sure you don't have a dmz setup, that might do it.

This should work to do the task. I think in the video they said they had a script to do it or something but this is one of those things there are many ways to accomplish a task. This is probably the most end user friendly way to do it though.

Like the previous comment, windows will be unable to read those drives. But what you can do is install windows pro, setup hyper v and install truenas into a vm and import your existing pool. This way you can still use truenas for storage but run anything else you want under windows. You might lose a little performance doing it this way but not something you would notice outside of benchmarks. Just make sure if the storage is encrypted you backup the key to it.

I can vouch for the 6700k. That will ruin the majority of nas tasks with no sweat. Depending on the os you go with you can get decent idle power usage as well. I used one for years and am just now replacing it with my last gaming machine. As far as ram, 16 should be fine. Truenas will take as much ram as you can give it as it uses it for cache. But for personal media file storage, 16 will be fine. As far as a raid card, it isn't required unless you want to connect more drives that the motherboard supports.

The motherboard I don't think has an hba. So you would want to buy that as well and then get the cables that match the hba you buy.

Ah that's interesting. Was not aware of that. Might not be a bad option then if the power consumption isn't bad. I was originally going to use a 2950x threadripper for the ram and pci allocation since I also run vms for work. But with the idle power consumption that was not a good idea. I couldn't get it to idle less than 200w. Switched to a 6700k system that will do around 50w. Will soon be switching to a 9900k with tweaks idles around the same or less.

Not sure with that main board but you might need a GPU. For basic home use an eypc chip os overkill, especially if only have 10gb.

As this is my personal experience, I wouldn't use smr drives in a nas. I tested it on a spare setup and it was slow on writes and rebuilding a failed drive was causing errors that could lead to data loss sometimes. Rebuild on an array of 4 1tb drives with one new drive took the system about 37 hours.

I don't have a Mac but I use nextcloud and their app does sync locally without problems and the pictures with my android phone as well.

I'm glad that worked. It is complex due to the interactive capability. Pretty sure there is an undo in the ui so that should be in there somewhere.

This might actually work. You can try using this for it to see what it does. Just make sure you have the latest intel graphics driver installed from their site first. https://github.com/Razzmatazzz/Interactive-Easy-GPU-PV

If you go into the pool status on truenas what does it say about the disks there? That first screen is for adding new disks to an existing pool. Since you got truenas to see the drive again,I would try rebooting again to see if it picks it up again on it's own before doing anything else. Normally with bare metal it would just pick it up again. When I replicated this in hyper v that is exactly what it did.

I think that is a safe guess. I have seen that happen a few times depending on how drives get initialized.

Going to need to know more information. Can proxmox see the drives but not truenas? Can truenas see them? How did you assign the disks to begin with?

That is correct. The Lenovo ones are quite solid and are much more capable than those mini pcs and have similar idle power draw. I have a m920q that is connected with a 5 bay orico drive enclosure running truenas for a while now and has been very stable. Plus with those you can upgrade storage and ram which is not a given on many n100 machines.

I like using goodsync. It isn't the prettiest application but does what it says in the name. They also have an android app, not sure about ios.

This is a very good place to start honestly. And you can get some decent deals on used Managed switches depending on which country you live.

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For that use case I would recommend looking into getting a 8th Gen intel mini pc instead from one of the big three. The m290q now is getting pretty cheap and will have more horses.