TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus - TrueNAS Install Log

I’m interested in your findings with Plex if you have time! Thanks!

vt-d should only be needed with VMs and you don’t need a VM to use plex. Just an app or docker container.

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I’ve just today gotten an F8 SSD Plus up and running on UNRAID. As a couple of people mentioned above, I had to disable secure boot and VT-d to get it to work. I’ve loaded up Plex and a few other containers. GPU doesn’t show up on the dashboard at all (even after adding GPU Statistics). Plex dashboard isn’t showing (hw) on transcodes. I’m getting periods bursts to 70%+ on N305 CPU, so I’m fairly sure CPU is handling all the transcode.

Thank you for writing this. I also purchased this EXACT same RAM and I suffered stability issues as well. If anyone knows of a quality 32 or 48 GB memory sticks that work well for this platform, please let me know!

Hello,
I have seen this :
48GB RAM in F8 SSD Plus works great! - TerraMaster Official Forum.
And also TerraMaster themselves selling memory, but crazy expensive.

For everyone wondering about Plex, I figured I would come back and give my experience with it - it seems to be working flawlessly!

I was able to enable the passthrough to the GPU, and it says its transcoding using hw - so, I am assuming that is working via the GPU.

Hmm, I installed a ‘Crucial RAM 48GB DDR5 5600MHz’ (I cant post links, apparently?) and it seems to be working fine (uptime 5 days, plaed about 15 movies from my Plex server so far). Maybe it is just that specific RAM?

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Hi, has anyone of you contacted Terramaster about this VT-d issue?

I tried about 15 linux distributions and they all seem to face the same issue. Only Truenas Core (BSD), Windows 11 and TOS6 seem to work with VT-d enabled.
Does anyone have any idea what can be done?

I would really need VT-d to work, otherwise this device is unfortunately useless for me. :frowning:

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I received my order for CMSX48GX5M1A4800C40 (48gb stick) and that isn’t booting at all. I saw on a reddit thread that it takes some additional time to boot for the first time with a new stick, so, i’ll let it run for a bit, but I fear that I’m the first to not have success with it either.

@TeslaOwner So… did it boot in the end on your system?

I just received a replacement 48gb stick and it worked! It took an additional minute to boot, but it booted. :slight_smile:

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Glad to hear that a replacement stick did the trick for you. My F8 SSD Plus just isn’t booting at all with that Corsair 48GB stick, but is with the 16GB stock one. I’ll ask for a replacement stick.