Hi, All
First Post
I am quite out of practice with a PC box - used a mac laptop for the last 10 yrs and everything on the whole just works
After losing a Hd a while ago I started to think of more raid storage
made a miss step of getting a Dell Poweredge T710 with idea of using that - but so noisy and did not get much further than trying get os installed windows server
Going on marketplace over the w/e
Have two nas drives raid 1 - and too many external add on drives
Don’t intend changing the nas drives
Have a Dell Vostro 470 i5 will have 32 gb ram
Am fairly sure i can get 6 drives in the box possibly 4 physical 3.5 drives and either two Nvme on a card or two ssd drives
Removed the 5.25 getting space
oh and has a 64 gb msata card for the os
will see how box copes with the heat and if it need more airflow etc
So questions ?
Are there any full Install guides to help rusty people like me Links?
Do i need install a version Linux b4 TrueNas
or is TrueNas Scale - all I will need
I hope in the end to be able to run this as a media server
Like look of Jellyfin
Drives only have consumer and and going have move stuff around to get free drives to install on prob two to start either 2 x 4 or 2 x 5
Don’t know how people afford enterprise drives "oh using 10 x 10tb ironwolf drives "
As you can see am prob trying get more out of what i got than maybe i should do
needs must
Residual heat from server going help with the heating over winter as keeping it in the living room
oh and what’s going on the drives TV shows and Films
Hope that’s enough Info to help get me started
Thanks
Paul