Hi everyone,
I recently switched from my old Synology NAS, where 10 MB/sec with encryption was just unbearable, to a QNAP TS-464eU running TrueNAS. I installed 3x Samsung Red 8 TB drives in RAID-5 for 12 TB of usable space and added 32 GB RAM (Samsung M471A2K43DB1, 2x16 GB), which TrueNAS recognized without issues.
The installation wasn’t smooth at first: Rufus gave me GRUB errors when creating the boot stick, so I switched to balenaEtcher, and that worked perfectly. After installation, I noticed the login was truenas_admin instead of admin, as seen in many tutorials.
One thing that did throw me off: I saw some error messages on the first boot. I’m ignoring them for now, but we’ll see if they become a problem. So far, everything seems stable, and I’m excited to see how this setup performs.