Hi, I read many posts to see if I could find answers to my questions but could not find any that address the questions I have.
I have an older QNAP 453A with 4 x 8TB drives in. I currently have movies, photos etc on there. I’m in the process of setting up Proxmox and will be running TrueNAS on there. With 4 x 4TB drives and a SSD.
Can I mount my QNAP storage inside TrueNAS/Proxmox where I will be running Plex? Or better to move the drives to the TrueNAS server? Either way what would be the best use/setup for my existing QNAP with the rest? Should I use it as a sync backup for my photos(planning to install Nextcloud on TrueNAS/Proxmox as well)
This will be my first home network setup, so any advice would be really appreciated.
Edit: I have been reading and watching so many videos to try and figure out what is the best setup for Proxmox and TrueNAS, but I am so overwhelmed and don’t know where to actually get started. But I know I should just start and see what works and what not.
What is your reasoning for virtualizing Truenas on Proxmox ? You can also run VMs on Truenas. It uses the same Hypervisor as Proxmox and will take alot of unnecessary complexity away from your setup.
I would keep my qnap as a backup target for your data on the new Truenas machine.
The recommended way to transfer your data is by setting up a new SMB share on truenas and to transfer your data over the network.
What hardware are you planning to build your new system on ? There are pitfalls that you want to avoid, if you want a stable system.
Hi, thanks a lot for your reply and I am so sorry for only getting back to you now.
My reason for Proxmox is to make use of high availability if that is possible. Since I will be using an old PC, I thought if it goes down, another can take over the VMs, etc.
Perfect, that is then what I will do, use my QNAP as a backup, thanks.
I have an old HP AMD Athlon(I think) server with 128gig ECC RAM that I want to use with TrueNAS and then a few Dell Optiplex SFF 3070 for VMs.
