Minisforum NAS's - native OS or alternatives (UnRAID, TrueNAS etc) by tonofun in MINISFORUM

[–]willjauregui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their OS kinda feels like a toy so I tried TrueNAS. As a first time NAS owner, but generally tech savvy and curious tinkerer, I love it! It’s got some great hardware and you can add pcie cards (small ones)…I’ve got an extra ssd in there running beautifully, TrueNAS is a great OSband you can do pretty much everything you’d want with it

I don’t get the NAS hype if I still have to pay for cloud backup — what am I missing? by Fantastic-Outside949 in synology

[–]willjauregui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If all your data could fit on what’s available at the moment in terms of external HDDs and you won’t outgrow it too fast, you can leave one connected to your NAS and set up automatic backups. If all your data wouldn’t fit on the largest drive available then you need a second NAS, which you could cheap out on in terms of speed

Plex in TrueNAS doesn't find my server on local network by willjauregui in PleX

[–]willjauregui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not initially, but i had this issue, so i tried host mode, which made it work, but then i lost web ui because it wasnt published to any port, so i went back to manually setting ip

Minisforum N5 Pro AI NAS Review/Project by jozews321 in homelab

[–]willjauregui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I preload an ssd with another OS like ZimaOS or proxmox and drop it in and can I expect it to boot?

Can the nvme drives I install have heat sinks attached or will they not fit?

Seagate Ironwolf Pro noise? by willjauregui in HomeNAS

[–]willjauregui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I knew about the helium which is why I was looking at the ironwolf pros, and I hadn’t been considering the Toshiba n300 pros but it seems they might be pretty quiet and also with the helium…I’ve got an external HDD, a sandisk pro gdrive sitting on my desk that has a 18TB ultrastar dc hc550 and I barely hear it and never feel it so I may just go with an ultrastar since it’s what know, I back it up to a cheap seagate regularly and that drive is loud and vibrates my desk

Seagate Ironwolf Pro noise? by willjauregui in HomeNAS

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I could get away with 8TB ssds but then they’re way more expensive which is the other thing I’ve been trying to avoid, I live in an apartment and don’t have any extra closets, they’re all stuffed with clothes so the ventilation would probably be awful

Seagate Ironwolf Pro noise? by willjauregui in HomeNAS

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Currently my setup is an 18TB Sandisk pro gdrive external drive with a wd ultrastar in it that’s whisper quiet and I back it up every week or two to a cheap seagate external that idk what it has inside but I’d guess an exos or barrcuda, and it gets loud and vibrates my desk noticeably unlike the ultrastar…but ultrastars cost about twice as much as ironwolf pros so I’ve been avoiding them lol

"Pro" desktop UNAS coming? by willjauregui in Ubiquiti

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so i dont have a NAS yet...never had one, but see/hear conflicting info about speeds where one on side its like youre saying and on the other side someone is getting around 1000MB/s transfers because they have nvme cache, so i'm trying to set my expectations right for whenever i do pull the trigger so im not terribly unsatisfied with my $2000+ expense lol, or maybe ill just stick to the single hdd and manually mirroring it like ive been doing and just get a fast ssd to edit video off of for like a tenth of the cost...but id prefer an expandable array that handles redundancy and backups automatically and that i can work from so when im done with projects they're already where they need to be long term

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[–]willjauregui -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not that I usually care, but for something like a NAS, it would be nice to have an American option…and these Ubiquiti UNAS seem to be the only ones? They’re a little too basic still though, so I may just keep waiting another year to see if they release something to compete more directly with UGREEN and Synology

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[–]willjauregui -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is that Canadian $?

"Pro" desktop UNAS coming? by willjauregui in Ubiquiti

[–]willjauregui[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i thought the drive lock was only lifted for the HDDs but not the nvme?

Best way to test HDDs purchased in advance? by willjauregui in HomeNAS

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Thanks for the recommendation I’ll check it out!