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My advice, skip the TrueNAS and go straight to FreeBSD. It's a simple operating system to maintain and it requires minimal setup to use as a NAS.
But I'd be a bit worried about the availability of drivers for much of the hardware found on this particular motherboard.
I’ve been pretty happy with taking a Terramsater F4-425 Plus and putting Linux on it. I feel like the mini ITX market for motherboards is just too niche. If you want something small, buy an off the shelf NAS. If size is not an issue, buy a case that can hold a full sized motherboard and lots of disks.
My advice, skip the TrueNAS and go straight to FreeBSD. It's a simple operating system to maintain and it requires minimal setup to use as a NAS.
"Just skip owning a car, just buy a nice pair of Adidas, they're easy to clean and don't cost much."
???
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It's frustrating when a comment is both needlessly belligerent flamebait AND wrong about electricity prices in the US. I guess that's what makes effective flamebait
German electricity prices are around €0.38/kwh based on my quick googling which is roughly $0.44/kwh. I pay $0.12-0.13/kwh in the US so I’m at least right factually up to rounding.
What exactly is failing in Germany, and why is it important in this context?
My advice, skip the TrueNAS and go straight to FreeBSD. It's a simple operating system to maintain and it requires minimal setup to use as a NAS.
Is this rage bait? "Just skip owning a car, just buy a nice pair of Adidas, they're easy to clean and don't cost much." ???
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German electricity prices are around €0.38/kwh based on my quick googling which is roughly $0.44/kwh. I pay $0.12-0.13/kwh in the US so I’m at least right factually up to rounding.
Wrong. I pay €0,23/kWh, so do your homework. What exactly is failing in Germany, and why is it important in this context?
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That's only for ZFS deduplication which you should never enable unless you have very, very specific use cases. For normal use, 2GB of RAM for that setup would be fine. But more RAM is more readily available cache, so more is better. It is certainly not even close to a requirement. There is a lot of old, often repeated ZFS lore which has a kernel of truth but misleads people into thinking it's a requirement. ECC is be…
There are a couple recent developments in ZFS dedup that help to partially mitigate the memory issue: fast dedup and the ability to use a special vdev to hold the dedup table if it spills out of RAM. But yes, there's almost no instance where home users should enable it. Even the traditional 5gb/1tb rule can fall over completely on systems with a lot of small files.
Some ZFS discussions suggest that an L2ARC vdev can cache the DDT. Do you know if this is correct?
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I do like to deduplicate my BitTorrent downloads/seeding directory with my media directories so I can edit metadata to my heart's content while still seeding forever without having to incur 2x storage usage. I tune the `recordsize` to 1MiB so it has vastly fewer blocks to keep track of compared to the default 128K, at the cost of any modification wasting very slightly more space. Really not a big deal though when tal…
Have you considered "reflinks"? Supported as of [OpenZFS 2.2]( https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392 ). Haven't used them yet myself but seems like a nice use case for things like minor metadata changes to media files. The bulk of the file is shared and only the delta between the two are saved.
Obligatory comment every time one of these threads comes up that Synology, sure, the hardware is a bit dated but… as far as set and forget goes: I’ve run multiple Synology NAS at home, business, etc. and you can literally forget that it’s not someone else’s cloud. It auto updates on Sundays, always comes online again, and you can go for years (in one case, nearly a decade) without even logging into the admin and it j…
Plus, DSM has a spectacular web interface.