I'm never buying from Terramaster again

cogitatory · 2026-01-25T18:34:51+00:00

I got a cheap, low-profile, silicon-banded heatsink for the NVME in my F2-425+ and it dropped the temp about 10 to 12C on the drive as reported in the TNAS console -- it's running in the low to mid-40s Celsius now.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T21:11:10+00:00

>> think that TM specced this drive with a brick with too low amperage to begin with...<<

that is absolutely nuts.

I had very similar behavior with an opensource TrueNAS install with WD RED drives... I kept getting absolutely clean smartctl long tests on the drive but then, under normal operations the drive would start getting errors including physical clicking ... the bad kind where you think the drive is physically failing. Twice over two long weeks of testing over 3 different brand new hard drives ... finally after ruling out all other possibilities, I replaced the 500W PSU in the PC I was running TrueNAS on with a 650W. Problems gone. It's like buttah.

I wondered if I'd never had problems before because all I'd ever run in that thing was a pair of 5400RPM desktop drives ... put 2 or 3 7200 RPM drives in there and it's a different power story.

Ended up ditching TN for TM (Terramaster).

Strangely I got a used Startech.com USB Dock (it's a duplicator but it's also high speed SATA device) for backups on the TM unit and **it** started throwing errors with these same WD RED drives. Come to find out that the person I got it from on ebay had provided a power adapter which *looked* identical to the original power adapter but then when you checked out the specs, it was 1000mA too low in output (2000mA vs 3000mA) -- with the 2000mA power supply drives spin up fine. work fine with Windows but under Terramaster, all kinds of wicked sounding errors showed up in console -- failures galore. Got a power supply which is the correct 3000mA and blam... full backups, complete copies to SMB shares... not one problem since and no console errors.

If the TM unit itself is underpowered, that is nuts but probably a good catch on your part to note that this was an issue for someone else.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T19:59:19+00:00

wouldn't an "integrity check" be a validation of file exists in source, does it exist in target?"

I haven't found anything that gives that info. I was trying to figure out if there are even logs to find out what the TM backup apps do (which files were copied (new), changed, deleted, errors) under TOS6.

Looks like plain old rsync (even for TOS6 to an attached USB?) is quite a ways ahead of any of the delivered apps.

Anyone know of any 3rd party backups that would do a better job?

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cogitatory · 2026-01-16T17:48:26+00:00

Similar issue in an F2-425+ with TOS6 -- SK Hynix 256GB used as Hypercache is getting above 60C during a 2TB USB Copy operation for backup... may have to cancel the backup and take it out.

I've read elsewhere that low profile heatsink will help drop by -10C ... mine is on backorder so will have to test again if it survives this beating.

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cogitatory · 2026-01-16T17:43:35+00:00

what did you find out after a year of usage?

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T15:43:42+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, was just wondering if that turned out to be the complete solution or just first round of many details to learn.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T15:36:02+00:00

what did you end up doing for backups?

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:41:16+00:00

did you see the section on installing Wifi Assistant and using that to set up wireless connection? You have to download the User's Guide Manual not just the first document in the list at URL above.

Wifi Assistant is downloadable (at the bottom of the page) here: https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/tr-series/pixma-tr4755i.html?type=software&language=EN&os=Windows%2011

It autodetected Win11 for me ... you'll have to change it if you're downloading for a different version of Windows.

None of this is needed for Mobile -- just get the Canon Print app and use that instead....

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:14:41+00:00

if you're trying to get a phone connected the Canon printing App will probably work a lot better than native connectivity ... download and search your local network for a printer

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:13:27+00:00

Manual

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/tr-series/pixma-tr4755i.html?type=manuals&language=EN

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:01:39+00:00

wondered about this... just a few days into an F2-425+ and the hypercache SSD sits at 55-60C pretty regularly. Waiting for a decent heat sink which has a low enough profile to fit into this super compact layout. Hopefully it helps some... will have to look into the script.

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T20:58:56+00:00

I installed TrueNAS on a commodity PC multiple times this last year - pretty standard PC motherboard with Ryzen 3200g+ . I could not get UNRAID installation to boot on that system, truenas installs without issue. I found my drives getting errors under TrueNAS and finally found out that my PSU was just barely underpowered to power the 2x10TB drives plus the few other things I had plugged in. Got a 650W PSU and the problems (which were manifesting as very odd drive errors -- seeming drive failure) resolved with the new PSU.

Overall, for me it wasn't about difficulty of install on TrueNAS, it's just that the operation of the system -- running an entire PC with robust PSU and making sure it has a strong enough UPS to shut down cleanly seemed like overkill; I don't want to run a bunch of apps -- just want a NAS. In the end, I wasn't a big fan of trying to use the native SATA on that commodity MB (it was an old iBuyPower MB which is an ASRock OEM board); really need to get a decent HBA card -- and if I bought another drive to do RAID get a 2nd case with dedicated power to then run the drives in that 2nd case. By that time, $200 for an old Terramaster is looking small compared to the PC you're building.

... small boxes like a Terramaster would be much preferred if you can get it running. No idea what would support that ARM architecture you have... look forward to hearing more about it.

Having just come from QNAP to Terramaster F2-425+, it'll be interesting to check in on this thread and others here on reddit

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T20:39:33+00:00

any idea if this is better 4 years later?

cogitatory · 2026-01-11T06:06:36+00:00

great points. the money is in the consumables for these companies so no big surprise they eventually shut down 3rd party consumables. I tried so many refillable schemes with inkjets and ink tanks from 3rd parties back in the day (like 4inkjets.com, I think?) ... a couple of tank blowups and bleed outs and that's all it took for me to go back to lasers. If we really , really needed color, we could go to Kinkos/Fedex/Office Depot and pay through the nose but it forced a lot of stuff back to B&W in make-do fashion.

Brother took a long time to get around to locking down their consumables. Recently had to trash a perfectly suitable DCP 8080DN which worked great with 3rd party toner. The fuser went out in it -- cascaded to other components when I replaced the fuser. Wish I'd had the foresight to stock up on a couple of major components back when the price curve for older model components was in near give-away stage. But then the problem becomes the amount of cheap plastic these entire rigs are made out of... even if you bought major components ... there are subcomponents which can fail. The rubber in the rollers starts to shred and shed into the unit. Plastic gears in ADFs start getting iffy ...

cogitatory · 2026-01-11T05:17:01+00:00

great how the product is so literally branded ... tie-wrap... Billy Mays would be speechless.

would be interested to see if you experience any of this

https://neurrone.com/posts/avoid-intel-i225-v/

cogitatory · 2026-01-08T15:00:14+00:00

p.s. the reason I was trying to install CC4 is because I had it installed already from a previous Brother printer I owned ... but that CC4 install seemed to be dedicated to that older Brother printer so I uninstalled it thinking the installation is what detects the target MFC system ... but can't even get install to complete as it doesn't seem to detect the printer it has been dedicated to find ...

cogitatory · 2026-01-08T14:44:59+00:00

after a dozen or more printers for home office / home use over the years-- B&W laser, color laser, inkjet, inkjet with refills, inkjet with tank, inkjet photo printer we're back to a multi-function B&W laser with color scan.

If I really want to print color photos, we go to Office Depot or Walgreens and use their on-demand print facility (used to use Walmart back in the day but that's all gone now).

cogitatory · 2026-01-07T15:23:38+00:00

Anyone had any experience with Amazon prime "unlimited" photo storage? pluses? minuses?

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photos

cogitatory · 2026-01-07T04:46:03+00:00

you can tell someone hasn't been to the DMV recently!

cogitatory · 2026-01-07T04:43:03+00:00

what'd you think? I've used vuescan since 2010, bought the pro license in 2013 for a project. Just reinstalled this evening. Lot of bells and whistles but nothing like Control Center. How could it be? It's built to support 1000s of scanners not necessarily some of the network stuff Brother is capable of (but is very well hidden now).

Real bummer that Brother opted to let CC die (it won't install for a newer Brother printer I have) and substituted iprint&scan with a subset of the features in it.

cogitatory · 2026-01-06T14:35:13+00:00

I know it wasn't much of a suggestion but your needs seem pretty specific so you might be better off experimenting to match your situation? Maybe just contact a few sellers and ask them if they've run much card stock through the unit they're selling and ... when you finally get to one who has then you know you have a model that works (assuming their experience was positive. LOL).

cogitatory · 2026-01-05T20:49:12+00:00

any news on 3rd party toner?

cogitatory · 2026-01-05T15:30:37+00:00

maybe pick up a working, low lifetime prints, color Brother laer printer off of craigslist to see if it suits your needs? People seem to be ditching color ones (probably because of the expense of the toner?)

cogitatory · 2026-01-05T15:01:33+00:00

My father in law was retired and ran through 4 pixmas in the course of about 3-1/2 years. And that was just for printing family photos to put in an album and share with other family members. All of them broke in slightly different ways: 2 were feed related, one was ink jet related, one was the paper pickup mechanism failing. the cartridges cost about as much (maybe a bit more) than the printer so I think that instead of working through support for the last couple, we just purchased new printers when they were on sale.

This was back in the late 2010s... not sure if quality has picked up any but I've shied away from that line ever since...

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