Just playing around with a couple of 8TB drives..... going to see if I can just dive right in to configure it solely as NAS.
Diving into TrueNas Scale
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Need a basic understanding of ZFS pools and to get to the point of a basic NAS is pretty simple otherwise. The extras are complicated.
Heh.... well I managed to create a striped pool (I'm aware that there's no redundancy, I just want to see what kind of speeds I get out of it), but am currently flailing about trying to make the pool available over the network (windows).... in unraid that's essentially creating a share and then accessing that.... 
(I'm not reaching out for help yet, just confirming that it's less intuitive than I found unraid to be.)
MIght have to actually spend some time looking at guides.....
(I'm not reaching out for help yet, just confirming that it's less intuitive than I found unraid to be.)
MIght have to actually spend some time looking at guides.....
The documention is a little wordy but atleast it exists
www.truenas.com
Setting Up Data Sharing
Provides general information on setting up basic data sharing on TrueNAS.
www.truenas.com
I think I've made it that far.... I was missing the bit about selecting SMB when creating the share, and creating a specific user (I believe unraid allows/default to everyone?).
I've now got a backup folder created, and am able to access it over the network. If anything, I think truenas's SMB implementation is easier to use than unraids.
Not seeing crazy speeds transferring a large folder to it though.
I've now got a backup folder created, and am able to access it over the network. If anything, I think truenas's SMB implementation is easier to use than unraids.
Not seeing crazy speeds transferring a large folder to it though.
One thing's for sure... having to provide a reason every time I want to restart/shutdown is annoying as all hell!!!!!
Apparently it makes a difference if you connect the network to your 2.5G card instead of the old arse 1G motherboard port......
Peaking at over 2Gbps. 2.1Gb/s seems to be somewhere between 240 - 250 MB/s write on the striped truenas drives while the same file transfer(s) seem to be running 100 - 120 MB/s when going onto my Unraid array. (presumably due to parity).
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With SMB want to be targeting 3.1 unless your using computers older than windows 10.
3.0 maps back to windows 8.
Don't recall if it lets you choose the version but 1 is horribly insecure and 2 I don't recall if it is much better.
3.0 maps back to windows 8.
Don't recall if it lets you choose the version but 1 is horribly insecure and 2 I don't recall if it is much better.
Default is definitely not 1 since I was able to connect to the share and I know that's disabled on my windows PC. There were no obvious options to select an smb version, but it's possible there was an advanced drop down that I ignored.
It looks like TrueNas takes advantage of available system memory as read/write cache. That ZFS cache slowly ramps up during a large transfer. I don't believe I've ever seen that behaviour on Unraid.
On another note..... the dashboard appears to be stuck on the original 1G ethernet port.... I'll have to try disabling it in bios to see if that does anything.
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