Hi All, I need a cheap and portable solution for a secondary/backup NAS on which I can install truenas. I have a couple (3) HDDs sitting around that would provide sufficient backup storage for my current truenas install. I would like to put them to use to create a backup to avoid paying for a back…

[image] Crow: The other option might be a PC of some sort but not sure what that would look like. That would look like any PC that you’d consider small enough to be “portable”, but which could still hold your three HDDs. Without “portable”, any old PC you might have with at least 3 SATA port…

[image] Crow: I can’t find a list or other resource to see which NAS can support truenas. Mr. T. Robot, I presume? 2.3.3 Using commercial NAS appliances Certainly the easiest way to get "reasonable" NAS hardware, and with 2nd user probably the cheapest …

I got my build done for under $600 (not counting hard drives). It runs the full Arr stack just fine, as well as Jellyfin with GPU encoding: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600G MOBO: ASRock A520M RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB SSD: Samsung EVO 500GB GPU: NVIDIA Quadro p400 2GB Case: Jonsbo N1 PSU: Silverston…

Currently I am thinking about a simple intel integrated graphics system. Trying to learn about powertop autotune to see if that is approprate with truenas. I want to see what I can get the current system down to idle is about 60watts currently. Once I get power down to a minimum I might know better…

Low-cost Computer or NAS Options for backup on as a truenas install

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Low-cost Computer or NAS Options for backup on as a truenas install

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