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So to hit on your boot drive redundancy you will need to have a computer that can raid drives together in a raid0/1 configuration. If you are worried about loosing your os drive in the meantime I suggest looking Into a program called urbackup. You can run it on a windows computer and do regularly backups and deployment if you have the os drive fail. If you wanted to dual boot you could if you wanted during install you will have to partition the drive to hold both os versions. It's kinda odd to do it this way but if you need a windows machine I would reccomend building a VM threw the truenas ui for this. If you want to access the Linux side of things to determine the issue with the network I would just load Into the truenas ui and follow the steps. Web UI access: Go to the System Settings section in the TrueNAS web interface and select "Shell" to open a terminal window within the browser.

If you really wanna take the deep dive you can look into UrBackup . I use it for all my computers here at home and at work. Atm it is all going to a off site locations with 1g/1g connection.

Yeah that's solid. I'm on a I3 8350k 32gb of ram Now 15x 4tb drives Still trying to fit a p104-100 for plex but had to stick with a 2060 because of room issues

It's hard for me to judge power usage , I would reccomend getting a kill-a-watt and running each and do the math.

It might not be the most power efficient but with the right 2011 cpu that should do well

Also end table options

So things didn't go as I had planned, I went to boot the computer up and the power supply I had apparently bit the dust and would only now power the motherboard and ssd. Upon swapping out the now dead psu for a spair 500 watt I got life. Not the life I expected. Only 11 of the 12 drives showed up on the sli card. This now leaves my current setup broken. So when I have time tomorrow I'll have to dive back in this wiring nightmare and chase sata connections on the first 2 bays.

First update.. the p104-100 was a but to long for this build "it hits the hot swap cages." So I swapped in a RTX 2060 for the time being. Pics will be up as soon as I finish wiring

At least a half rack. Or a 1/3 rack as a coffee table

This is for documentation purposes. This will be the third modification to this nas build. The system will comprise of I3 8350k on an Asus prime X370-a 32gb of ddr4 @ 3000 speed I am adding a nvidia p104-100 mining GPU unlocked to 8gb ram. I had 8x4tb drives moving and adding 6 more ** " might be 4 after I weed out the bad drives" I think the hardest thing will be the fact that I am also swapping raid cards and this may Bork Hexos in the process but hopefully it will see the previous storage and work with no issues because I will me adding them back in the same order

This will be a placeholder for my expermantal use with a old mining card P104-100 that has been firmware unlocked to use all 8 gigs of memory on the board "typically 4 or 6 gigs is how they released them" . I've used these cards in proxmox with great results. From my testing is they act like a 8gb 1080 "non ti" so I expect similar results in how it runs in plex for encoding. There will more added once I get my whole nas rebuilt after getting a new hand me down case from a friend.

Well I've stepped in after 3 iterations of access control. It all use to be IEI keypads and mag locks. Then they swapped to amano, thoes went EOL with no path to a simple upgrade now we run Panasonic software with Lp1501/pl1502 boards from Mercury. I enjoy it more than I should. But every chance I get to tear down and rebuild a box I take the chance

So with a bit of swapping you could change the fans and make it more quiet, I've done it with many older dells. For the front panel if you get a multimeter you can chase down the traces and find the outputs and solder on headers that will work for your current motherboard. Lastly for the SAS card, I have flash many over the years and have never had one fail. Just take your time and read threw the documents on how to flash and let it roll. Good luck and keep us up to date with what you end up doing

That case is super clean

Good looking setup

Could be me but I do this at a router / switch / vlan level. It also allows for monitoring and delegation a bit easier

Why not a BBS? There is already a unofficial reddit

If it was me I would keep them separated. I mean my dev box and other vms are in a dell r730 and all the storage is being pushed by a i3 8350k. I know the power usage would be more if I loaded the 730 down along side the other vms due to overall heat and processing power used.

Heck yeah man. My first setup was done similarly using a Dell and Windows file share.

Oh that's right, I forgot what you had for hardware

Where can I begin lol, I use tailscale at work and home. Currently have it set at both of my parents house for their android TV " ONN tv boxes" and they both exit out of my house so we can get around the netflix hulu sharing drama. I also keep it on my phone "Samsung" for the DEX feature that allows me to remote into any of my servers either at the office or the ones my friends have allowed me to collocate at their house. I have also allowed friends and fam access to my now Hexos box for their backups and now plex services . I know that the way i use tailscale is just the tip of the iceberg in what it can do , but all i need is it to be simple

In theory could you not add lets say 4x 20tb and then use it for a cold store and move your more active stuff to the 4x8tb as a main pool ?

Tbh I would have used a better PSU, I will change it in the future " 550watt" but i am adding more cards in the computer to add GPu . other than that i cant think of much more i would do

Im Fine with that. I also plan to document and show other things once alpha is released and things are more stable