Thank you!

Thanks, let me know if you have any further questions. Happy to help.

I agree, I use a static IP with local DNS entry. I covered how to do that in my previous video on PiHole (trying to do these in order so people can build a Homelab).

@@mdhurrtn you're welcome 😁

Ahh wow, that's cool 😎 yes, it was a tough challenge but a great achievement. I'm a little off that level of performance these days 😂

Haha, you're welcome. I have an updated build in more recent videos.

Haha, thanks. Be sure to check out my latest NAS video if you have a healthier budget.

Thanks for your comment, I agree with all of what you said, however, this is aimed at beginner's looking to build their first NAS, on cheap hardware with some of those caveats called out. I do stress that an off-site is important to give you that 3-2-1 solution. I will be following up on this video at a later date with a more 'professional' setup that touches on many of the more advanced features and considerations you mention (I've been through that process when creating my own NAS).

Thanks, I'll consider it

TrueNAS uses zfs which is software raid. There are many advantages to this solution, read up on zfs Vs hardware, it's interesting stuff. Thanks for feedback 🙂

Thanks for your feedback. I'll take it on board for future videos (very difficult to try and have everything lined up perfectly without moving - perhaps transitions would be better).

Thanks. That is certainly possible, you'd need to port forward the SMB ports. However, I don't recommend you do that directly due to security, you want a VPN. Checkout my WireGuard video first. Once they're on the VPN they can then connect as though they are local, whilst being secured through the VPN.

@@Jims-Garage thanks for that. I'll have a look at your video 👍🙏

You're welcome!

Thanks, Will.

I think I mention in the video that I actually run TrueNAS as standalone on bare metal, and in other videos I've mentioned that you can do ZFS shares on Proxmox natively. I installed it in a VM as I didn't have a spare machine to deploy on, and to confirm that deploying in a VM is indeed a supported option that many people use. Some people prefer to just have all of the other benefits of TrueNAS in a simple VM (e.g., ACL, SMB, NFS etc - out of the box) rather than doing through Proxmox.

@@Jims-Garage Maybe I've missed it, sorry. Yeah its easer to run it like that but also its not good idea to passthrough drive controlers because in case of bug or failure there will be huge problem because entire ZFS management is in virtualized enviroment. For me better way is to let Proxmox manage ZFS and drive controlers and use WebUI like Cockpit or use VM like OpenMediaVault and give it access to ZFS Pool

@@demanuDJ It's the exact reason why I have a dedicated server, less to go wrong IMO.

@@jameskellam2980 raid is redundancy, it means a drive can fail and you still have the service (e.g. dual disk raid, 1 disk dies the other is still good). Backup is a separate set of drives or machine. Imagine a power surge or theft, the backup should still be available. The service will go down when raid fails, but the data can be restored from a backup.

Now I get it. Backup is NOT on the machine you are backing up. I can see how that would be better. I think for me, there will be no need for raid except as a learning experiment.

See my WireGuard and headscale videos.

Thanks for the feedback, I will look into it.

You need a HBA to virtualise, or a sata controller that can be passed through.

It's Debian based and it gives me all the features of TrueNAS Core and Scale if ever I wanted them.

It's difficult with 3 drives and depends on how much risk you want to take. I generally recommend raidz2 which means 2 drives can fail, but you lose two drives worth of storage. So with 3x 14TB you'd only have 14TB usable... You could go raidz1 which would give you 28TB but if a drive fails and another fails during a resilver you'll have data loss. This can be somewhat offset if you have a good off site strategy. The SSDs might be better in a mirror if you want to store VMs on them and have better performance. Depends how many you have and what you want to do with them.

@@Jims-Garage ok I see what would be a optimal setup you would say with hdd’s I have about 5 1tb ssds. One more question as well lol sorry for badgering is there a way I can use backblaze to just back them up to the cloud just for a fail safe it’s what I was doing with them on my windows pc and it just runs 24/7 it was basically my offsite backup in a way I was wondering if I can do that with this if I go with raidz1.

@@InsaiyanTech yes, check out my rClone video and just alter the provider to backblaze. I would go raidz2 with the HDD and probably 2 mirror for the 4 SSD.

@@Jims-Garage thanks for answering ima follow the advice I’ll go raidz2 and time to look into some rClone videos. I appreciate the help for real.

@@InsaiyanTech no problem. You can always add more drives to the pool at a later date.

Appreciate the feedback. Hopefully this is resolved now (these were my very early videos).

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True, I should have said that you can see a performance increase to reads in some cases. Writes aren't affected.