Best way to initially populate 5TB?

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NAS is finally ready to be used in “production”.

My data (about 5TB) currently exists on an external drive and a Synology DS413J. What’s the best way to put all my data on it?

  • I don’t think the ds413j has the power to sustain the transfer, plus it’s only 1gbe
  • Plug the hard drive into my NAS and do a local copy sounds like the best way, but (I will need to double check) I THINK the file system is Apple-specific? If not, it’s still different than ZFS. Am I going to have trouble copying the data across, without any issues or permission problem?
  • Do the transfer over SMB from my MacBook. Would be 2.5gbe. This will be the primary way I’m accessing the data afterwards, but I’m also not exactly confident it’ll transfer all the data across reliably without dropping connection at some point?

Something else?

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You are stuck with copying over the network using something like SMB or NFS. TrueNAS only accepts ZFS formatted disks

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Another option could by rsync or syncthing…

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