Out of all videos this man right here has walked me thru this step by step. I tried other videos but all has failed leading me to restarting each time. This man knows his stuff and did an amazing job. 10/10 good sir.
I just wanted to thank you so much for this! I tried to set up a pc using TrueNAS last year and got totally lost, this video was absolutely a godsend in letting me get it working - a couple successful hours, compared to a week of failure. Thank you again!
Truenas works perfectly, I turned my old pc into a network server with a 1 TB boot disk and 4 x 4 TB storage disk this one works perfectly for my home studio projects
@@pennystreet Only gonna max at 1Gb or about 120MB due to network limits. Upgrading to 10Gb will allow faster speeds and more conformity between devices. Don't waste time and money with 2.5Gb and 5Gb. The average HDD these days can hit 185-210MB. SSD's are obviously faster. I have 4 8TB in Raid6 with 2disk failure giving me about 14TB usable and usually around 350MB transfer speeds...start adding more disks and I can get even faster.
The real problem with this is the lack of redundancy. At a minimum, you want two hard drives in a NAS. More would be ideal. Hard drives fail, and you don't want to lose your important data because you didn't have redundancy or a backup. I think four is the sweet spot, but you can get by with two. But, then, on top of that, you should be backing up your files away from the NAS. If you have a hardware failure (this is a 10-year-old PC, after all), you could lose everything no matter how many drives are in your array. Use the 3:2:1 backup scheme to protect yourself. Even if your backup system just consists of plugging a USB hard drive into the machine and running a nightly backup to that, you need to do it. Ideally, you would keep a backup off site. So, if you have two USB hard drives, you can swap them out occasionally and keep one of them somewhere else. I keep one of my USB hard drives from home in my desk at the office, and then swap it out for the other one occasionally. Many routers can be used for simple NAS duties, so that could be a good way to handle backups from your NAS.
2007-2008 PC's are amazing for it, because motherboard would often have 8 (EIGHT!!!) sata ports (for all these cd/dvd drives that were popular at the time).
No questions, everything was explained! And certainly I learned from this video, my subscription to your channel was certainly not in vain !! Thank you very much for this explanation. This weekend I'm making a nas system!! 😉
At .33 per kWh be very cautious on building a system like this. You need to run it for 365days a year, so you and to consider the cost of power each month / per year. On average a PC can consume 100watts. 100W uses 0.1 kWh per hour x 356 days a year at .33 per kWh. This system alone can cost you around $876 a year if the price per kWh doesn't increase. If where you live is lower than than price month over month then you'll see a cheaper cost, but not by much. The best option in my opinion is to find a Celeron processor or Amr processor and look at other options similar to TrueNass. TrueNas is great 👍 and the video is great. Just consider the cost year over year before you start your journey and commit the money.
Another tip: SSDs may cost more than HDD, but SSDs use much less power and are much faster. If you really need the bulk storage. You can spin it up once or twice a month to do the backup and turn it off for the next backup in order to conserve power
This video helped me greatIy. Got it all working and mapped the drive successfully. Unforunately i could not get it to find a single plugin and was not able to get plex at all.
This was a very good tutorial. I would suggest that you let people know how to select things in the original menu. People may not know you use the space bar to select. I will make a NAS now and use this video and recommend it anytime. Thanks again.
Just finished following along without only one slight hiccup -had to use BIOS instead of UEFI on my old Dell Optiplex 755. I hope you'll continue to make more tutorials with TrueNas as I'm hoping to set up mine as a replacement for G Photos. Maraming salamat!
thankyou for a wonderful tutorial master Tpro, can i request for part 2 adding user and how to manage like who can read and write only, the one who can edit. advance thankyou master TPRO
Great video, loved it and followed every step successfully! Just couple notes: Please show how to reach that server through mac and linux too To this day I've solved it on my mac, but not yet on my linux machine
Although it's cheap to use one of these Dell Optiplexes SFF it's very limited to drive space. I think it's much better to go the optiplex tower where you can add more HDD and a PCI Sata card to have a NAS with software raid capability. For a tutorial, yes! saludo ako sa quality ng video at very concise.
Why would you want your NAS to be accessed outside your home network knowing the fact that you are susceptible to networks attacks and the risk of losing all of your data?
great video... been looking for this ...a question though. can i access this NAS from other network? eg. leave that pc in my office and access from my home, or smartphone?
Awesome video! Haven't seen many that use one drive in the pool. Would it be fairly straightforward to add more devices later or would I need to do a new storage pool at that point?
Hi Torogi Pro, Your step by step video tutorial was awesome. But i have one question sir. Everytime i created a user account, there is an automatic creation of folder named to the user i created. I just want to ask, How can i delete that folder? Thank you...
While considering the speed and frequency of transfer rate, does it matter if we use a high performance SSD drive int the NAS device or can an old HDD work in the same way as it is showing up on your video...? Also, can I set up nas on a raspberry pi board if possible? Please do share your views on this...
can you make a tutorial video how nas drive is being used. and what is the file type when it was been saved or what will happen if the hardware in nas drive fail.
Is there any possibility to connect the USB external hard drive to the NAS and copy files into the internal nas hard drive via TrueNas system ? Without going through it from a pc or Mac ? Love your videos! Gained more knowledge from the channel! Good luck and keep it up! Regards from Sri Lanka 👊🔥
Don't even bother, you'll hard a hard time due to file system compatibility (zfs for truenas). Just do a teracopy/robocopy from client to the nas and you should be good.
Now trying it for the 10th time and it just doesn't work, it installs without any problem unitil it asks to reboot,.. when it powers up i get the message no operation system. Boot disk is a 256gb ssd (installing windows does work)
Hi, im total technical noob but i would like to ask: can you acces that server from anywhere? like from your phone or friends house pc by typing that ip? and can you install apps like pi-hole or jellyfin? or is this different type of system and this is just another storage drive but on network?
After my installation is done I reboot it but I keep getting "Cant access web interface". It isn't giving me the IP address to access the server. Any help would be much appreciated.
im having a real issue right now. when im trying to put my ip in the search bar at the top of google it just gives me a load of searches. idk why its not taking me directly to the website please help
So I have a TrueNAS installation and an ac power meter and determined that my setup only consumes around 30w while idle. I'm not sure how this compares to commercial dedicated nas units but to me the energy usage seemed quite reasonable. My setup just happens to be on a Dell Optiplex 9010 that I got for free like in this video but I'm using a 2.5in 500GB sata III internal hdd boot drive and an external 4TB 7200RPM seagate enterprise HDD in an USB 3.0 enslosure with mine.
Hi Im planning on doing something like this since I am having storage issue and have lost trust on cloud storages recently (Google Drive 👎⛔), can this also be accessed on the internet like a personal cloud?
sir, i did it,but my question is, how you gonna speed up the read and write or copying of data? mine was 15mbps tops. and once i did, i'm surprise that the files in the slave disk for reading writing data were erased and once i put the hdd in ordinary pc, the pc did not recognized it anymore.
truenas seems really buggy not going to lie. I have it set up but many times, and during the installation I'd have to restart the computer. Last night it was workign fine, today I can't access the NAS. Type the IP nothing. Finally get in, says my password is incorrect. Trying to reinstall NAS and when I select the USB to install the OS, nothing happens and the blue screen just moves up everytime i hit a key. Doesn't seem like something I'd want to store anything important on.
It's not working for meI clicked on install and a few seconds later it just keeps saying command timed out retrying command and it does that constantly any ideas?
Tried flashing my USB stick and my options are non boot, and two other types of boot. I'm not sure which, but tried both and neither auto boot. There are numerous types of boot listed for different os. So I didn't pick for os. I've set bios to boot on USB devices, I've also tried manual booting to USB and apparently I'm not getting a bootable flash drive setup. I'm using a 8gb USB flash drive. Oh, but I also tried my 16gb flash drive as well and get same results..
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