Yes, I misspoke about ZFS being a “memory hog”. I meant more that it will work better the more RAM you throw at it since it can use pretty much all of it. Thanks everyone for pointing that out though 😒
The whole "zfs is a memory hog" thing is a bit of a myth. Most of the issues around that arise if you use dedupe. Since that's not something you really need most of the time (and if you really need it, you can enable it on just one dataset), huge memory sizes aren't super necessary. Having said that, more memory is helpful for things like caching, but how much you really need there depends on how you use your data.
@@RaidOwl simultaneous already covers "at the same time" as other transcodes. that's literally the definitionof "simultaneous". If you wrote "simultaneous transcodes at the same time" in a paper in English class, your teacher would mark it red as redundant words.
I'm a dirty little Raid Owl fanboy. Also, so cool to see Hardware Haven here as well. Two of my favorite smaller tech channels that I've discovered this year! You guys are both educational and fun to watch.
there is a simple(r) solution for usb 3 boot drive: get one of those SLC 32GB usb disk along with a USB flexible extension to put it inside the chassis near the vent airflow. SLC USB drives are fast enough for scale install and will last FOREVER. You'll also have the ability to use both nvme drives
Yes, I would absolutely like to see certificates set up on TrueNAS Scale.. I couldn't get it working and gave up. Oh, and... I'm a dirty little Raid Owl fanboy. Please don't ask me to do that again...
What's wrong with just using a usb flash drive as your boot medium? the only time you really need to write to it is for stuff like os updates and configuration changes which happen super rarely. most of what you do with the nas is going to be done on the pool(s)
Very interesting. Not happy with the TOS on the Terramaster. Nothing seems to work without lots of messing about. Not sure Scale will fit in my older F5-221.
Ii is a nice vide, but: - ZFS is NOT a memory hog, I run it om a 2003 backup server with 1GB of DDR (400MHz); Pentium 4 HT (3.0GHz); 4 HDDs 1.21TB (2x IDE; 2x SATA-1). It runs FreeBSD 13.2' + XFCE on OpenZFS 2.1.9. It has one small disadvantage, it only runs the backup (send | ssh receive) at ~200Mbps due to a ~95% load on one CPU thread. ZFS uses a large part of free memory for the L1ARC (memory cache) to store the lz4 compressed records, but memory will be freed again if needed. - I run FreeBSD from the zroot datapool on 2 IDE HDDs (Raid 0; 250+320GB) and I also use those HDDs to store some of my backup datasets. The other datapool has 2 laptop HDDs (2x 320GB; Raid 0; SATA).
zfs encryption in terramaster is just horrible due this cpus doesn't have AVX and unfortuantelly ZFS is not using aes-ni provided by this cpu for encryption :(
I'm a dirty little Raid Owl fanboy. At LEAST HH knows you're weird. That's a start to a bro-mance. He's cool. I like when he does a video project, something just doesn't work, and he continues, SHOWING US his mistake. Mark of a great creator! Terramaster had/has (okay leaning toward "HAD") a chance, a huge chance, of making very good, low-cost NAS with great software. They failed. It's obvious from everyone's review on RU-vid they failed. Synology and TrueNAS {core,scale} are the Gold Standards. Synology "just works." (Most of the time!) But TrueNAS has so much going for it and will only get better. I like you taking the time to show taking this mess and making it useable. I see this has a great "dorm room NAS" for a kid to take to college. Or perhaps for a baby NAS for cameras' recordings. Keep up the great videos my fine feathered creator.
I'd pay 150$ for a full networking course on scale...... but yeah a VPN video on scale would help. Maybe work again with HH and Jeff. I know you guys have been in cahoots for a little bit now. Love the vids brotha keep em coming.
everyone's following the rules here without realizing why. i do it for his top tier memes. what's up? the sky. *pause* lmaooooo also, I'm a dirty little Raid Owl fanboy.
Now I'm running OpenMediaVault, it's much better, the user interface is more straight to the point and it works. I stumbled across that there for some reason is an incompatibility between ZFS and Docker containers, but you can configure your way out of it. Anyway, I don't like ZFS, so I'm happy with OpenMediaVault where I can choose myself.
Great video. Have you taken a look at UGreen's kickstarter for their Nasync devices? The hardware they have looks pretty good, starting with the Intel N100 all the way to the i5-1235u. Those 2 performance cores in the i5 are pretty powerful.
Most linux based OS loads as much as possible into RAM, and only read/write drives when required, instead of Windows that tries to load everything from the drive...
Im a dirty little raid owl fanboy and would love a vpn setup on scale walk through. I have several failed attempts across proxmox, casa os, scale, pf sense, .....you get the idea lol
I was so excited to try this out, until I got my NAS open and found there were no NVMe or RAM slots... it was at that moment that, much to my dismay, I realized I have the F2-210, the much inferior predecessor to the model you use in this video.
What was your reason that you didn't run TrueNAS from the USB drive? Why not a good idea? I have been running it for the past year plus from a USB drive.
@@philiprobar Is it really a problem for a home use/home lab (hobby) scenario that have way less read writes (where as being the OS having less so writes that actual diminishes the lifespan)? Between installing a second USB drive (mirroring) and or installing a usb to M.2/SSD as an option, I don't see the need to be that concerned in the first place. My Terramaster TrueNAS has been running with no issues for the past year. If the USB drive becomes an issue (I doubt it for the next 2 to 4 years) I have a backup of the OS & config and I will just slap in a USB to M.2 drive, and secure it in-between the fan and the Drives. In my opinion it is way to valuable to use the onboard M.2 slots for the OS. Your reasoning for Home Office/Small Business I can agree not to use USB drives. To be honest in such scenarios is using a Terramaster running an unsupported OS, really the smart option, to be used in a Home Office/Small Business scenario?
a cache-less truenas is unusably slow my friend. you should consider putting unraid on that usb thumbdrive, unraid is designed to run ON usb drives, then keep the two nvme drives as a large cache pool, and that is the ticket to success
@@nadtz maybe it's my rig?? idk man my truenas rig has: cpu: intel pentium g4600 (2c/4t, "skylake family") ram: 8gb ddr4 ssd: 240gb nvme pci-e ssd (running truenas scale 22.02.4) hdd: 2tb WD "enterprise" sata 3 (6gb/s) at 7200rpm - hdd's (x7) case: AUDHEID K7 8 Bay NAS Case (from amazon) Transfer speeds avg about 12MB/s, Whereas on the UNRAID server (that has 1tb ssd cache) transfer speeds avg 96MB/s both on same lan, granted, the unraid has way better specs (xeon e5 2699v3, 96gb ram, etc.) but its just transfering data , shouldn't need heavywheight cpu for that
