My primary PC is running Windows 10 Pro and is one revision below what is required for Windows 11. It’s about 8 years old and I am in the process of replacing it with a new AMD based PC and would like to consolidate everything on the NAS before switching to the new PC.
My first attempt at building a truenas core (or any NAS for that matter) from an old intel i5 PC has been a partial success though I’m not clear about all the settings. The boot disk is a 1TB SSD and I am using two 1TB disks I had lying around for testing.
I followed the installation and initial setup directions and my PC can see and successfully read and write to the Windows share. Acronis, however, does not connect even though it sees a NAS connection. The icon is greyed out and can not be selected. What needs to be done so Acronis can access the NAS?
Another issue is the PC after a shutdown did not see the NAS at all until I rebooted the NAS. All are on the same network and connected to my TP-Link Archer 10000 router which is also running a share unsuccessfully.
I would like to fully build this NAS using 12TB Seagate ironwolf disks in a 4 or 5 RAID 5 array. The MB has 5 SATA ports so it will probably be 4 drives unless I install another SATA card. I also want to install a 2.5GB/sec network card.
Hi and welcome!
Some consideration that i hope will be usefull for you
Consumer PC motherboard has 90% of time Realtek integrated nic, that are not well supported. An Intel dedicated 1gbs one Is cheap (~15/20€) and
Avoid 2.5 for quite same reason. Stay on 1 or go on 10 directly.
You also didn’t say how much RAM you have, but at least put 16gb, more if you want run apps
If possible, replace It with a smaller one… Just because Is a totally waste of a large disk a cheap 32/64/120 GB SSD Is more than enough
Can you share your network settings? Hide eventually sensitive data
Truenas Is not compatible with RAID, instead use raidZ (sw raid).
The pool layout depends (excluding performance ) on how many disk you want, and how much redundancy you need. How many disks you think about? How many SATA are available on motherboard?
Thank you for the tips. Briefly, You mention the nic. Do you mean the NAS nic or the PC nic because the PC does see the NAS, just not Acronis. The disk is from an even older PC and was collecting dust. If I replace it it will just start collecting dust again. The networking is pretty much out of the box with the NAS set to the IP address it chose after the install and the mask 24. What network settings are you looking for? I will do some research into the truenas raidZ, thanks.
Thank you again. I have Acronis 2025 running on another PC and it has different issues. It clearly sees the NAS but the login credentials fail. Both PC’s Windows file explorer see the NAS share without issue and I can log in to the share. This is looking more like an Acronis issue. I have submitted a ticket to Acronis and hope they are not as brain dead as they used to be. I really don’t want to invest any more in the NAS until I am sure I can reliably connect to it. The 5 disk cage and NAS disks are about $1,500.
Truenas network
re0 192.168.2.183/24 name server not configured and no IPv6
I enabled the NetBIOS-NS but everything else in the global config is the default
Im sorry but im not an Acronis user, i can’t help you on that (i use self hosted urBackup, used aomei backupper in the past).
For the rest: From network
i don’t use netbios-ns, and probably you shouldn’t. For what I know Is quite obsolete, do you have some really old PC that justify this choice (or something else im missing?)
setup DNS nameserver, 8.8.8.8 - 8.8.4.4
From re0 interface
disable DHCP (check if you can reserve your Nas ip in the router, assigning the device in the statica DHCP for example, or according your setup)
Regarding other stuff
be sure to schedule smart test on disk
be sure to schedule Scrubs on pools
take a look on resource section, and adopt joe’s multi report script for automatic config backup
Thank you for all the advice. It seems the real issue was my understanding of how Acronis wants to address the NAS. There is an icon showing “My NAS” when selecting the destination for the backup. That icon is greyed out so it appears Acronis knows about the NAS but can not connect. It turns out the NAS is accessed through the “Network” as a destination. All my PCs except the one still running Windows 10 and a 6 year old version of Acronis can access and backup to the NAS. I am also going to look at urBackup.
There is still much I need to learn and understand but I am confident the Truenas solution will work for me. Now it’s time to get the final hardware and set it up.
a cheap 32/64/120 GB SSD Is more than enough