Here I disagree with you–you know iX’ track record with .0 releases. IMO the latest 24.04 release would be a wiser choice–at least unless and until apps are needed, or until 24.10.1 or .2.
Oh, 24.10.1 came out yesterday. April Fools! LOL Okay, it’s not April.
I do agree with you in part. I guess I would say, if it is just for simple NAS work, EE would be fine as I use it that way without issue. Well I do a few more things but the stuff I do pales in comparison to what many others do.
The real reason I said 24.10 was because of the many upgrade issues people have had. I was thinking that this would mitigate the upgrade issues. It could be wishful thinking on my part.
But the OP can definitely use Dragonfish 24.04.2.3 as it is somewhat more mature and was originally released at the end of April (hence the poor April Fools joke).
Thanks Dan & Joeschmuck for your additional and helpful posts, I really appreciate it!
Of course, I did not expect to get a “ready to use NAS-OS” - in such case, I would stay with the latest QNAP or SYNOLOGY stuff. I am prepared to read and understand all the information that can be found on the websites here.
Let me precise my intentions first: In the moment, I am far away of all that functionality that comes with SCALE. In a first approach, I just want to build up a data store for my media data that replaces my “old” Synology 4-bay NAS. Most important to me is data safety and data restore capability. At a later stage, I could well imagine trying out and using some of the functions offered by SCALE at a later date, should I need it.
This morning, I successfully installed SCALE 24.04.2.3 Dragonfish - the LAN chip of my MB is detected, I was able to access the NAS using web UI. 
Now, I am going to configure my system following the recommendations given on the documentation site.
Regarding the multiple further features SCALE is offering, I will read the corresponding articles and use search function in this forum before asking stupid questions and wasting your precious time, folks 
I am now going to set up the storage.
I recently read the recommendation of an experienced user (might have been Dan) to perform a scan of each HDD before use. This might take up to 12 hours. Instruction set was given as well.
What is your opinion/recommendation?
“Up to 12 hours”? No, if done right it’ll likely take several days. There are a number of ways to do it; the last time I put drives in service I used this script:
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I read the Github site but I am not familiar with scripts and do not know how to proceed stepwise. Where can I get support from? Any example available?
I suppose I have to input instructions at the console command prompt.
Are the drives you are using new or have they been in-use?
If they have been in-use for a while (maybe over 3000-4000 hours), then you could tell yourself a SMART Long test is good enough. However many of us like to run Badblock on the drive in destructive mode to ensure every location can be written to and read back, mostly to identify infant mortality. Plus Badblock does this with a few different patterns (4 I think it was). And yes, it will take a bit of time to run these tests.
If you plan to place valuable data on the NAS, this is a wise thing to do. @Dan is not steering you in wrong.
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I appreciate your recommendations.
All four HDDs planned to be used in my media NAS are brand new.
Of course, before investing weeks in migrating data from my existing Synology NAS to the new TrueNAS operated NAS, I want to be as perfect as possible to make sure that the HHDs are healthy.
Although I am familiar with a lot of procedures, also with command line based applications like Exiftool, I am not familiar with scripts to use with TrueNAS.
Can you recommend any site or are there any examples I can follow to see how I should continue in checking my new hard disks. I just want to avoid time-consuming trial and error, that’s why I asked for support with regard to this topic.
Summarizing this topic, I can confirm that the recommended procedure worked well for my brandnew four hard disks. No errors detected, so I can proceed with the the next steps (creating a pool, datasets etc.)
Topic can be closed.
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