Just wanted to make sure Jeff’s geerling’s thread was not forgotten. TrueNAS Scale on Arm (2024 Thread) It's been a few years since the last serious thread about TrueNAS on Arm passed us by. See: ARM port of FreeNAS planned?? FreeNAS with Raspberry Pi. Is It Possible? Looking for: Fr…

In case anybody missed it, experimental builds here now: [image] TrueNAS on ARM - Now Available TrueNAS General I’ve patched TrueNAS Scale to run on ARM (aarch64). This release is unofficial and may lack security updates, so use it at your own risk. Download is here: ht…

It’s a rhetorical question! I forgot I’m on a tech forum. etorix, it has dual 5g ethernet sockets so it shouldn’t need a 10g NIC. I think it’s a far point that these developments open up more choices for consumers and that is a good thing. They are not suitable for everyone. Even if iX decide this…

This is what I continue to struggle with. I won’t deny that there may be a use case for low-drive-count, low-power applications, like let’s say a raspberry pi media server. Having ZFS run on those with its checksums is definitely a step up from EXTFS or whatever. But why bother with TrueNAS when a …

It is interesting and might be an OK ARM dev board for working the bugs out of Truenas Scale on ARM, might be a better choice than the cm3588 NAS board above since you can start working with real professional storage cards. But I don’t see this specific model being great for anything but development…

ARM cores, licensed stuff has been floating all over for years. For example, Apple’s silicon is a licensed derivative of ARM and has made them independent from Intel (x86), Motorola (PowerPC & 68K), etc. thanks to the rise of independent fabs, Apple’s scale, and in-house expertise. That strategical…

[image] Constantin: Arguably, the bigger issue is how few server motherboards seem to be designed for HDD file server applications these days. More generally, SATA is being phased out. Consumer motherboards have less ports, and server boards possibly none at all. EPYC (the real ones, not 4004…

[image] etorix: More generally, SATA is being phased out Luckily m.2 is not :wink: [image] 5x / 6x / 8x SATA M.2 PCIe Cards TrueNAS General I know port multipliers are bad, and all that, but dang these things are getting interesting https://www.amazon.com/Port-Non…

[image] kris: Personally I also don’t have IPMI on my TrueNAS systems here either. Only time I ever had a monitor/keyboard connected was during the initial system install, but again handy if it is available! May I ask what hardware you are running on your personal TrueNAS system since you don…

[image] craigdt: My expectation of the SVP of Engineering, it would be server grade hardware, even a ix systems system, I suspect you may to revise your expectations according to this post [image] ZFS Scrubs with no ECC (what could possibly go wrong?) TrueNAS General …

I’ve had a variety of personal systems in my home lab over the past 15-20 years. I had rack mounts with all sorts of official ‘iX’ gear (TrueNAS, FreeBSD poudriere builders, PC-BSD hosting, etc etc). Until last year I had a rack in my home office, with nearly 100T usable and somewhere around 100 dr…

The n100 in my mini lab also works surprisingly well for the needs of the lab. Running Scale because the 10gb adapter isn’t supported in Core (and scale is really the way forward). Only 6 SATA spinning drives right now, didn’t want to spend the money on SSD yet. Wish I had more time to throw into f…

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Luckily m.2 is not

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