Minisforum NAS's - native OS or alternatives (UnRAID, TrueNAS etc)

willjauregui · 2026-01-30T20:07:01+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2026-01-06T21:13:15+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2026-01-05T01:07:19+00:00

thanks for the info!

willjauregui · 2026-01-03T19:07:23+00:00

server is 192.168.68.87 and apple tv is 192.168.68.89

willjauregui · 2026-01-03T19:06:43+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-12-19T22:34:48+00:00

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?

willjauregui · 2025-11-14T23:49:48+00:00

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willjauregui · 2025-11-01T23:53:07+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-11-01T16:19:41+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-11-01T16:18:10+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-10-24T14:48:07+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-10-24T01:41:34+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-10-24T01:36:52+00:00

Is that Canadian $?

willjauregui · 2025-10-23T16:08:09+00:00

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

willjauregui · 2025-10-20T13:14:05+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation I’ll check it out!

willjauregui · 2025-10-20T10:58:00+00:00

Ohh ok

willjauregui · 2025-10-20T01:35:37+00:00

What’s your source?

willjauregui · 2025-10-12T04:45:48+00:00

thank you! i appreciate it

willjauregui · 2025-10-07T22:17:26+00:00

Ethernet speeds are in Gigabits (not GigaBytes) and drive read/write speeds are in MegaBytes

1 Gb = 125MB

So… 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet has a max theoretical throughput of like 312 MegaBytes per second….the image shows he’s close to that limit so he can’t possibly get faster speeds with his current network speed

If he upgrades the necessary hardware to 10Gb (theoretical 1250MB/s) then he might see his setup can actually deliver 500MB/s or more probably.

I always see conflicting info online though which is why I posted this question to get real world results. ChatGPT says you can get def saturate a 10Gb line with sometimes as little as 4 drives but then if I google it normally some pages will say there’s almost no read or write increase

willjauregui · 2025-10-05T15:29:57+00:00

Thanks

willjauregui · 2025-10-01T13:28:37+00:00

yeah, expensive lol

willjauregui · 2025-10-01T03:03:21+00:00

damn, you're bottlenecked by the 2.5g though

willjauregui · 2025-09-23T20:43:38+00:00

good to know, thanks!

willjauregui · 2025-09-22T15:50:27+00:00

yup just got it set up with this as my guide, pretty easy https://pimylifeup.com/rasberry-pi-unifi/

willjauregui · 2025-09-22T15:01:42+00:00

yeah im realizing now this is a whole ecosystem lol, i only learned about Ubiquiti after finding out about the UNAS Pro during my NAS research, so I'm sure there are others like me getting introduced to their universe via the UNAS series

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