TrueNAS Newb. Wanting to Build a Home NAS

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These should help explain the CMR, SMR issue & boot-pool design.

SMR vs CMR ServeTheHome

WD Red SMR vs CMR Tested Avoid Red SMR

TrueNAS Docs - WD Red SMR Drive Compatibility with ZFS

WD Red SMR Drive Compatibility with ZFS

Boot Drive

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a “Linux distro” and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec’d use cases. TrueNAS is an appliance firmware for storage, which happens to be built on top of FreeB…