TrueNAS 12.0U8.1 (was FreeNAS 11.3U5 until Feb 2022)

Supermicro X9SRi-F with Xeon E5 1620 (3.6 GHz) and 128 GB DDR3 ECC RDIMMs

8 x 16 TB Seagate Exos X16 in RAIDZ2

2 x 64 GB Transcend SSD in mirror as boot drive

Jails: Syncthing

Since October 2023:

• 2 x 2 TB Samsung Evo Plus in ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 Card V2 adapter for VMs

• Intel X520-DA2 NIC with direct connection to XCP-ng host

TrueNAS Scale for beginners: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/welcome-to-truenas-scale-beginners-intro.208/

ZFS Introduction: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/introduction-to-zfs.111/

ZFS pool layout: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/zfs-storage-pool-layout.201/

Hardware recommendations: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

Terminology and Abbreviations Primer: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/terminology-and-abbreviations-primer.28174/

ECC RAM: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-ram-and-zfs.15449/

Don’t use RAID: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/whats-all-the-noise-about-hbas-and-why-cant-i-use-a-raid-controller.139/

SATA controllers: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/multiply-your-problems-with-sata-port-multipliers-and-cheap-sata-controllers.177/

List of SMR drives: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/

Power supplies: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/proper-power-supply-sizing-guidance.39/

Partitioning the boot drive: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/i-have-to-waste-an-entire-drive-just-for-booting.187/

USB drives: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/why-you-should-avoid-usb-attached-drives-for-pool-disks.190/

ZIL and SLOG: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/some-insights-into-slog-zil-with-zfs-on-freenas.13633/

Block storage: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/the-path-to-success-for-block-storage.81165/

SAS and SATA: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/dont-be-afraid-to-be-sas-sy-a-primer-on-basic-sas-and-sata.48/

10 Gbps primer: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/10-gig-networking-primer.42/

Burn-in and testing: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/building-burn-in-and-testing-your-freenas-system.17750/

Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide : https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/hard-drive-troubleshooting-guide-all-versions-of-freenas.17/

Virtualization: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/absolutely-must-virtualize-freenas-a-guide-to-not-completely-losing-your-data.212/

Is my Realtek ethernet really that bad?: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/is-my-realtek-ethernet-really-that-bad.196/

Script multi_report.sh : https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/multi_report-sh-version-for-core-and-scale.97451/