StarTrek133

Hello .. I could use some advice .. I really want to get back into NES and SEGA games .. but don't really have the room to store everything so we looking into those devices that have the hundreds of games installed on them .. but I remember a video Linus did where most of those were bad .... So wanted some advice on if there is a unit I could buy that was good ... Hope that makes sense .. Thanks for the help ..

That maybe true Brob ... but regaurdless as that I see need to find something that will not cost me 1000 bucks .. hence why I asked for advice ..

Thanks DrMacintosh for the information ... Yeah I had thought about BackBlaze the trouble is my current backup size is pushing close to 10TB worth of data ... trying to upload that to them would take months , plus I cant afford the monthly cost .. That is why I was trying to figure out something local ..

Hi Everyone , Need some advice ... I am trying to find a way to backup all my current / furfure systems .. Currently I have a Windows 11 , Windows 10 , and a Truenas computer ... Right now my Windows computers backup to a 2 day Synology and the TrueNas backups to some USB drives I had laying around .. What I am trying to plan is a single box that will back everything that I can grab and run if my place ever catches on fire or something happens .. My plan was to get a Synology DS1621+ and have everything back up to that .. But with the cost of it I am wondering if building something might be cheaper .. I saw a video about that Jonsbo N3 Mini .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7R_HB5pm4&t=1374s I already have hard drives I can use just need a case and the cast of the parts .. Trying to keep it same and compact .. So thought I would ask here for advice and see if anyone got back to me .. Thanks for the help ..

I will be glad to help out as well .. been waiting for bigger shirts for years .. 1. I normally wear either a 4x or 5x depending on the shirt .. with my wide shoulders its hard to say at times .. 2. I am 5" 11" 3. No issues with pics as I cant do local I am in Orlando FL .. Hope to hear back .. StarTrek133

Finally ... been asking and waiting for so long , cant wait to fill my closest with shirts ...

Thanks @SVThuh I did not think of UnRaid as I thought you had to pay for that .. But if it will let me do raid , and a windows VM .. then it might be worth looking into .. Hhmm interesting ..

Hey @tkitch I don't know why either .. I had a bunch of people helping me in the fourms and no one could understand what was going on .. I would create the pools , datasets, user, permissions, everything like it says in the video and when you try to access from a windows machine you just keep getting the username and password prompt over and over and over again .. no matter what you did never worked .. Also I could never get a vm to run either .. keep saying the drive wasn't there when you went to the pool it was there .. So I don't understand it was my first try at TrusNAS and I really wanted it to work .. As I wanted to not have to deal with a hardware raid card .. But what else can I do ..

Thanks @tkitch for the advice .. Sadly I tried to do a TrueNas Scale system and after a week of trouble shooting and trying to get help from the community we never got any of the SMB shares to work and the VM's would not start either .. So I gave up and went back to what I know which is windows based .. Which is a shame as I didn't want to spend the extra $$$$ on a new raid card but what was I going to do ..

Thanks Everyone for the advice .. I am just hoping it will help the raid card not lag or hiccup when its trying to read and write .. So that is why I thought a Cache drive would help .. I also need to know how to create that cache drive as its something I have never done before .. I would assume its in computer management but also could be wrong .. Thanks ..

Hey Guys, I need some help .. I am currently building a Windows 11 Media / NAS box .. I have a spare 256gb SSD that I want to use as a cache drive if I can .. I have a 256gb M2 drive for the OS and then a Raid Array for all my data .. So hoping I can make a cache to help the Raid Array to not slow down or chug .. if that makes sense .. Thoughts ?

Yeah @LIGISTX I am surprised too as to the issues I have been having ... That is why I was thinking of moving away from Hardware raid and using something like Unraid / TrueNAS .. Never thought of using those as the base OS and then running a VM .. that is a thought as well .. if I go that route I am not going to use the raid card and just use the onboard sata ports to plug all the hard drives into and then a M.2 for the OS drive .. @Fl0yd- thanks for the advice .. I have already done that and as its an older raid card there is no updated firmware for it .. and I have already replaced the battery as well ..

Thanks @An0maly_76for the information .. the trouble with mirroring is it would put the drive into a format that when I redo everything I would have no way to copy it back .. Hope that makes sense ..

Hey Everyone, Need some help / advice .. My current data drive is a hardware raided drive .. I need someway to clone that array so I can pull the hard drives and use them in the new array and then copy everything back .. The computer that the array is currently in is a windows 10 machine .. I could use the file explorer and do a copy and paste , but we all know how good windows is at that .. So looking for some other software that could help .. Thoughts ? advice ? Thanks ..

Hi Everyone, Need some advice / help .. Currently I am running a windows 10 computer with a LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-4i ... the computer itself is an I5-3470 with 16gb of ram .. Its been running great for years , but its starting to show its age and I am getting a bunch of buffering and times out and such .. Currently I am just running Plex , Shoko Server ( for anime ) and some windows network shares .. nothing to fancy So I am looking at upgrading it .. Option 1 : TrueNAS or Unraid - never work with these so unsure about them , also not sure about Plex or Shoko Option 2 : New Windows Build - could do this would just need a new raid card as the current one only has 4 ports and looking to upgrade to 6 hard drives instead of 4 .. Option 3 : QNAP or Synology Thoughts ? ideas ? Thanks ..