Hello, I am working on building my first NAS (getting spooked by rising RAM and HDD costs and whether they will eventually come down or just be very hard to come by for consumers). I am mainly trying to decide whether TrueNAS or Unraid would be better for my use case. If TrueNas, I am not even sure…

[image] Thanleros: The big concern I have is whether the 32GB of RAM is enough for a TrueNAS system running ZFS and how big a deal that it is non-ecc memory, as the MOBO does not support ECC. I’d argue it’ll be fine - you could prolly even run some apps/a vm or two if you carefully manage the…

Ok, if you were me and had spent ~$600 on the mobo, cpu, and ram would you suggest re-thinking? If so, do you have a better CPU platform you would suggest? The big thing was that board had the N100 CPU integrated. But it only has one SODIMM slot and again, doesn’t support ECC. I want this thing to …

You have some design choices that may be questionable. You list 3x 28TB drives. Raid-Z1 isn’t recommended for those large drives due to resilver time if a drive fails. Raid-Z2 would be better but that would need 4 drives to create the pool and VDEV in the GUI. Is this your only place to store yo…

Yes this is the only place I would be storing most of this data. It is mostly media files like our collection of movies. I would have family photos and things of that nature, so I would like to make this robust and scalable in the future. What is a better size then? Something smaller like 12TB and …

Items like family photos should be stored in at least two or three different places. One ‘off site’. Regular data is recommended to keep the pool usage below 80%. It’s below 50% if using block type storage, like databases and iSCSI. You need to figure out how much storage you will require and yo…

When you are saying two true NAS servers, are you saying two totally different sets of hardware? Or could I run all this from the same box. Like assuming I use say 20 TB of actual storage and had another 20 TB in the same box, does that function as the backup you are referring to? I was planning on …

[image] Thanleros: Ok, if you were me and had spent ~$600 on the mobo, cpu, and ram would you suggest re-thinking? Nope, not at all. My post is that if you already have those parts in hand, then life is good. If you ignore budget & the fact you already have those parts; yes, it is not perfec…

You might want to browse the Resources section and look at a few builds listed. You can expand the signatures under some users posts to get ideas of how they have their servers set up. Fleshmauler has a ‘See My freeNAS system’ you can click on the triangle and expand. You should notice others als…

Ok, yes thank you this is perfect. This helps a ton. Right away I see that it mentions I shouldn’t do what I was intending to do (use it as a JellyFin server as well). So I need to do some more digging.

There are two kinds of people: Those who have a backup, and those who will have one. You dont wanna have your family fotos on just one device. Check out different cloud backup options. Storj is 5$ /month and painless to set up within truenas. Lets you sleep well at night.

Setting up a new NAS (first time NAS build)

TrueNAS General

Farout March 6, 2026, 8:32am 15

I would go for an X10SDV-4C-TLN2F

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