I’ve see quite a few channels with Patreon but never considered it myself. I think it’s something I’ll set up in the near future. Thank you so much for the support.

Awesome, glad I could help!

I was doing the same when editing this video haha

We also have the exact same datavac, mine is just in white.

Thanks! I have never used Unraid before but I’ve heard it’s come a long way in the last few years.

Lol yeah it gives you a warning because 1 disk is basically just a 1-disk-stripe...which is silly

Good idea. I’ll add it to my list for sure.

Yeah please @Raid Owl, start new vid on PXE.

I’d strongly recommend trying out Scale then as you can deploy Plex fairly easily as an app and the NAS functionality of TrueNAS is just so nice to use. You can go with TrueNAS Core if you want something more reliable as you can easily set up a Plex jail in there. Both options would work for you.

I believe the installer for both is the same so I assume it’ll work. That may be something I have to check out.

Yessir

Smart

The name “Scale” is kind of misleading as it doesn’t really have anything to do with scaling out. However, ZFS and TrueNAS itself are pretty good at expanding out your setup. You can easily add more drives to a ZFS pool within TrueNAS. As for multiple computers: TrueNAS has built in backup functionality to backup your entire system, as for mirrored devices acting as a failover…I’m not sure. Great question.

@@RaidOwl I saw that it has something to do with true as command, otherwise you have some finicky way of getting it done with script. So far haven't seen anyone get it done. What of the computer ru s out of ways to add more storage, they advertise that with glusterfs built in, you should just add more computer and have a complete single system with expanded storage.

use lsblk command in the shell to list the name of the drive. this helped me.

Yeah he recently upgraded to 2x 4TB drives. This is just we had on hand at the time.

Scale is Linux and Core is FreeBSD.

🤢🤢🤢

install using root as the web gui acc. admin account does not work for the shell commands

Haha good luck!

@@RaidOwl It is about to get real clean. Couldn't find a case with a bunch of drive bays, and this one has 10. So I just picked up some parts and a new case. Building a NAS server in the old case and will put my PC in the new case. Just have to convince myself to shut this one off and get started!

Oh you’ll be fine 👌🏼

@@RaidOwl thank you

This NAS was for a friend of mine so it wasn’t staying at my house. I didn’t want to lock out the system my assigning a static ip that’s not in his subnet. We set one when I brought it to his place, though.

@@RaidOwl Still trying both ways of setting up an ip... for some weird reason if you go to the Network->Interfaces tab (on the middle screen) and press the up down arrow before your interface name (for example enps01) it will lead you to the Edit interface at the right windows. There you untick dhcp and you have to put the desired ip under aliases ???????? option by pressing add and then save. You have to test (gives you 60 secs) in order to launch a new tab and check the new ip log in again and press save. Then it gets permanent. Really???? That is what they came up with? On the other hand from cli by pressing 1 shows you network interface > there either pressing 1 or ens504(interface's name) or whatever cant make it to work. Do you know what you have to enter there or by which way needs to be entered? PS Don t do an apt update from cli . Next restart and nothing plays.

Yeah new drives are always preferred but it’s not always in the budget for some people.

I meant in terms of budget cpu options today where you can get 6 cores and 12 threads for fairly cheap. I never said the cpu was bad but I still wouldn’t call it “great”. Glad to hear you’re getting some use use out of older hardware.

Lol agreed…

Setting up the NAS does but the boot drive trick doesn’t

@@RaidOwl thnx for the respons. What is newer? Truenas core or scale?

@@chinoricco6368 Scale is much newer, still in Beta I believe.

@@RaidOwl thnq for the respons! Oke i will check into that version aswell👍

I used to use music in my earlier vids but I didn’t feel like it added much and was a pain to edit. I may revisit it though.

@@RaidOwl I like it the way it is, but that's my preference. Great content, keep up the good work!

I was shocked at how many the fit in there 😳

​@@RaidOwl great videos man. keep it up

the sad truth lol

Yeah man take a vacuum to a dusty pc and let me know how it goes. Also…I was outside…I think blowing dust out there is fine.

@@RaidOwl I’ve been doing it for decades. It works BETTER than blowing the dust further into the slots and under surface components. Why do you think it wouldn’t work? Try it and see if you’ll ever blow the dust again.

@@RaidOwl They even sell these things called “DataVac” for vacuuming servers and such. It’s what professionals do. But you’re not a professional server guy, so that’s probably where the problem is.

@@xNYCMarc “professional server guy”…yeah I’m def not that lmao

Yeah depending on your NAS config an i5 with 16gb can certainly be overkill. However, with TrueNAS Scale designed to also be a hyper visor for visualization and services, you may run out of resources. Of course it all depends on how you use it. Also, TrueNAS runs ZFS which is more resource-heavy than other file systems. I don’t believe there is a low power mode but I could be wrong.

Global warming

Yeah for sure. I could turn on ads and make a few bucks but I’d rather my viewers not have to watch them lol.

I like weather 🤷🏻‍♂️

Let’s consider this a learning experience

I'll study harder next time