After watching the Sunday night Q/A session I thought it would be a good idea to checkout TrueNAS. I was using my Rocky 8 server for files and to serve an NGINX Web page but no longer using it for a web server. I’m looking to re-configure the server to TrueNAS since now it is primarily a file server on Samba. Any thoughts on migrating off of Rocky to TrueNAS? Also why not use XFS since it gives you more of your disk space? Just curious why ZFS is used. Lastly any reason to use TrueNAS vs Unraid? I’m using 5 WD Red 4TB disks for the array if that helps and 256GB NVME for OS.
My 2 cents.
- You’ll have to find a way to offload the data to another device or service.
- ZFS > XFS. ZFS is very robust when it comes to data integrity.
- IMO Unraid has a strange way of handling the data in an array and I’m not sure of its integrity. I wouldn’t trust it with my data.
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Thanks Maximus… I went and picked up an external drive and now rsync’ing the data to it. Once that is done I’ll rebuild it with truenas. I figured it was the easiest way plus I’ll have a backup after I’m done. Also I’ll take your word for it plus all the positive reviews and go with TrueNAS.
Just make sure the hard drive controller is hba, as truenas needs to managed the drives directly.
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I’m just using the SATA ports on the mobo for right now. should I buy a dedicated pcie backplane?
That shouldn’t be necessary.SATA ports will be just fine.
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Awesome, because I installed last night and hopefully have it fully operational by end of weekend now that I don’t have to buy a back plane.
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