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 turned my 9 year old gaming rig from highschool into a NAS with this video. Thank you so much!!!!!

Our video today is building a Home DIY NAS with a limited budget. We can start from a 0$-50$ budget depending on what is available around us. We don't need to spend money if we have an old pc that can meet the requirements for us to be able to get a NAS up and running, however, if it needs to be upgraded we need to buy some parts to upgrade it, otherwise, we can also buy old pc on eBay that is like mine with a budget of 30$-50$. We will be using TrueNAS as the operating system. I will guide you from step one until your Home Nas is ready to use. Have fun and enjoy.

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!

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.

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

Thank you so much, sir. We've setup TrueNAS but for production, it's kinda buggy sometimes. The forum community is very hands-on in helping.

one of the best guide on internet for nas lovers

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).

One of the BEST videos about setup TrueNAS. Thanks a lot!

this is 100% the information I needed to start, and popped as first video. You are THE BEST! thank you!

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.

Very cool video bro! I'm gonna setup my home NAS and give my old desktop a new life :) Thank you very much!

Best NAS tutorial i have watched. Thanks.

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!

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.

Fantastic. Do speak about NFS and SMB shares in detail in the coming videos. Would be really helpful.

thank you so mutch ive been planning to bould a nas for a long time and it works thank you

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.

Learnt something new today Thanks

Thank you, this is the best video easy to follow! My setup are an Dell Tower i5 6th Gen/8Ram/New 120gb SSD/ 2 2tb NAS Ironwolf HDD

Thank you bro! I finally setup my TrueNAS on an old Intel NUC.

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.

Very nice video. Keep it on. Thanks, Sir, for sharing your knowledge.

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

Thank you for your time, great video. Just what I was looking for.

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

Amazing videos got my subscription!

Still works in 2023. Thnx

Thank for teaching, may i know how to do it on an old laptop, or can u kindly make one video on that...Thank u.. i m robinhood..Thank again Teacher

Really appreciate the video. Easy to follow.

Very good explanation and show, thanks!

How fast copy speed is it. Is it only like 5mb/s? I thought it was like 130mb/s for an HDD

Thanks for this video. Maybe you could also create a video on how to access this NAS outside of my home network.

Very good video well done

Fantastic tutorial 😍 thank you 😊

This helped me alot.thanks ❤️

Excellent exercise on Home Cloud

Great tutorial

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?

Very good work!

This video is pure *awesome* Thank you kind Sir!

power consumption needs to be considered

Top man!

Great video, thank you for the information 🙏

DELL is F12 for boot menu!

Thank you Torogi Pro

How to access files remotely like outside network.???? Please guide me. Thanks

Amazing Tutorial, Thank You.

Wow thanks for video, I've been searching for this. I'm wondering how about the power consumption with this spec, can you tell me please?

😍👍

Great video. Thanks!

Ayos!

Thanks!

Hye thanks for such a great video. Learnt a lot first time user of NAS. However how to add more storage will it detect addition automatically?

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?

Great video with step by step instructions. For home use, do I have to assign a static IP or Wired LAN connection will suffice?

would be nice to see how to add more drives for storage and redundancy.

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 👊🔥

Torogi, Maraming salamat! Truenas version 13 SSD 120 gb NAS 4 TB Intel CPU 1st gen RAM 16 Gb LAN Tplink PCIe

10 years old pc , that I use like a gaming pc xD , I have a dell optiplex 390 , 8go ram , i5 2200 , 1 to hdd , gtx760 , all my setup cost me 150€ xD

If my old PC for TrueNAS, is unable to boot from usb, can use its hdd for trueNAS os boot and USB external storage as NAS Storage?

Hi

Could you not just partition the HDD for the OS and your files?

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...

To have a remote access from other network remember to set up the default gateway on network settings

I got all the way to adding it to my main PC. It says error, cant find server. I need help

Note first

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...

What about the operating costs (electricity)? Modern NAS use way less

What with the NAS madness? KZfaq algos are going crazy about it. It wants to me to have NAS for some reason.

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.

Fantastic vid, just a quick question. Can you run this off of wireless or does it have to be plugged in?

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)

so how did you connect your laptop to your NAS PC.... u missed that part... good video though

I am sorry, I feel slow but, I got really lost after the reading of specs, you aren't using RUFUS anymore. Any particular reason for the change?

How to add wifi to the NAS pc

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.

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..

In this build after everything is done and set up how can I add more drives without it erasing everything on the first drive?

👍 video

Hello I was wondering if it's possible to connect to custom Naz builds together on the same server, or will they just show up as two separate?

i really wanna know if you can do this with wifi

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?

after you build it and set it up and need more memory, how do I add more?

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.

A soon I disable DHCP, Truenas won't be able to connect to the internet, how do I fix it?

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?

nice video..is it possible to setup in WIFI connection?

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?

TrueNAS has mobile apps?

do you have a video for live server? for small business? thank you!!

is this safe to use for company office as data file server? thanks

Hey is it possible to access remotely?

how can i accsess to my nas at home .. from work via internet connection?

how about accessing the files (via smb) to android phone browser?

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

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.

Would you say if I got 3 14tb drives should I just get 1 more for raidz1?