These kind of videos where you see a seasoned amateur "ride the lighting" and just wing it are entertaining and validating, because when you see someone else's "winging it" looks very similar to your "winging it", you feel slightly less bad about winging it.

If you don't want to reinstall the OS when switching drives you can add the new drive to the boot pool which will mirror it so you can have redundant boot drives. But in this case once the mirror completes you can remove the flash drive boot device from the pool so it is just the SSD. Unsure if it is much of a time saver since it can take a bit for the drive to mirror.

Since watching your other videos I installed TrueNAS and love it. Your other videos got me ready for what I was going to go through and helped me plan out my install. Please keep the videos coming on any and all topics.

At least you admit you are guessing. I’ve worked with people who wouldn’t admit they were guessing and it didn’t end well. Interesting video and it’s relevant to me as I’m fixing to make a nas change myself even though I’m not a TrueNAS user.

Considering you said you didn't know what your were doing I think you did a great job!

Fan control in Truenas (or linux in general) would be a cool video.

Technically you weren't moving the pool, as you were creating a different pool with totally different layout. The (longer, slower) way to do it would be to fault the 4TB drives one at a time, replacing it with a 10TB drive, and letting the array rebuild/resilver. Then when the last drive is rebuilt, you'll get the option to expand the array to fill the new disks.

Ahh, I've been binge-watching your videos since I started getting interested in setting up a NAS, since I realized it would make managing my astrophotography stuff much easier! Nice to binge watch something then immediately get a little more XD Unfortunately so far I've been massively fumbling my hardware choices. Bought a CPU then realized it didn't actually work in the board I have (thanks LGA1151), then bought an Optiplex tower that already had an 8TB drive in it. I know I'm throwing caution to the wind not doing any redundancy to start, but I'll be keeping things backed up on an external drive too. ...then I learned TrueNAS really wants ECC ram, which nothing I own is compatible with. We'll get there eventually XD

i have been watching HH before 1k subs, and i personally still think he is the most underrated tech tuber. due to his comedy, voice and overall content. keep being awesome bro.

Another great bit of footage here. I am currently looking into a new home for my NAS as I need more drive capacity.

I always enjoy watching Ur videos nothing over the top they're real they're chill, I hope u make a in depth tutorial on truenas scale someday like setting up jellyin and how to use it

Even seasoned IT Admins have to "wing it" on some things. Working in IT means you deal with a lot of issues across a myriad of system types. If you don't do something regularly, then chances are you end up having to just wing it and trust in your general experience to see you through. That and a Mastery of Google-fu

I just love NAS videos.

yay my favorite nas-tuber uploaded

The steps at the end seem critical to making the whole thing work and you went through it so fast it was impossible to learn from it. Unfortunate because I need to do the exact same thing and now am left hanging. Appreciate the attempt.

Love it when you just "wing" it.

Was a good video, I'm same sort of person, who figures things out while doing, rather than heavily researching beforehand 😅 Keep up the good work!

Great video! The clueless homelabber in me appreciates your "guessing" heh.

just clicked the channel to check for a new video and one uploaded 56 seconds ago! nice!

Thanks! This is an overall thanks for your content thus far. More please - when you have time.

Great video as always

5:03 - For heaven's sake! PLEASE PULL OUT the fan connectors BEFORE blowing compressed air through them as they generate a high enough voltage to fry your motherboard with ease.

I used to have an old PC for my trueNAS. I recently upgraded to a 7 drive TrueNas MINI and couldn't be happier.

abit late to the show, but there is a sooooooo much easier may to migrate, especially your old and new diskset have the same "layout" just with bigger disks: 1) add the new disks to the pool with the same disk-layout as new vdev(s). so that you have e.G. one raid5 with 3+1 4T drives and another with 3+1 10T drives in the same pool 2) when the disks have sucessfully added, mark the other, old vdev for removal. this step will take long, because zfs will now shuffle around data in the background to free up the old disks. because there is enough space left in the pool then, this will work without any hickups. zfs will auto-distribute the data to the new drives, because it is the only possible place where the data can go to. in larger arrays this will be more spread out and balanced afterwards, depending on individual fill-grade of the vdevs and such, but here it would be straight-forward. Swapping all disks in a pool to bigger ones AND having the physical ports needed to have all disks attached all at the same time, is the best-case-scenario for this method. after everything is done, the old disks can be simply removed physically. another way would be to explicitly replace disk-by-disk. after all disks have been replaced, your pool should auto-grow, because now there is unused space on all disks which the pool can be extended to. both methods work equally well, the first one is just significantly faster, as it is only a single operation. also only usable data have to be moved, not empty blocks, so this will be faster, when the disks are not full.

me listening to this calming voice and lofi music while playing through Doom 2016

Appreciate the video! I’ve been wondering what I’ll do “IF” I ever run out of space on my drives!

20TB! You must be storing a lot of memes :)

I use that exact Icydock for my NAS its an old machine case with a Skylake CPU and some mix and match ram I added over time doing PC upgrades.

this is a great tutorial, my nas only has two pools, 1TB each so i will have to follow this pretty soon... what was that card you installed, a pcie

The prn music in the background... :)

i like watching your videos because I started my system with almost the same spec... i5 655k with 16gb of ram and the same PSU lol

What's wrong with ventoy? Sometimes it's hard to reformat and repurpose the USB afterwards but it's really nifty to have one dedicated with windows, Linux, gparted etc iso ready to go

ProxMox allows for containers as well as VMs....did you try adding Portainer directly in ProxMox? And Wireguard? If that works, no need for a Debian VM... Your thoughts please.

Truenas recommends WD storage drives vs all others. Does it honestly matter???

Do you have a long term plan for the 4tb drives? If not, you have the space in your case and an HBA. Why not just leave them in there and use them as a second pool for something?

How is it you can log in with the haven user? All the forum posts I've seen say only the root user can be used for web ui login.

Hey hardware haven I made a mc server and my server folders aren’t in mc-docker folder an I can’t find the. I found there container ID an looked at the logs but Idk what to do from there

Can you setup your own vpn at home with minimal cost?

Short question. Is true nas better as openmediavault? I run OMV but I think true nas is interesting

the only thing keeping me from building my nas is the hdd cost. make a tutorial about getting wd/seagate/toshiba to send us a bunch of drives too

What is the name of this particular case? Looks like an old ANTEC... love it for this project.

How did you get a picture of the server under support?

just did same thing myself went from 3 4tb drives to 6 in raid z2 config old was a raid z1. I couldnt figure out how to do the replication task so i ended up just going with The copy paste method over smb on 2.5gig nic's it only took about 6 hours to copy all 7.6tb over wish i had seen this vid on the replication it probably would have went much faster and no annoying copying box on the screen

Hey, could you make a video on installing Nextcloud Docker? I'm having trouble with the process and would really appreciate some help. Thank you.

Do you still use that UnRAID setup or full TrueNAS Scale now?

hi, do you know what is the power consumption of your build?

I don't know man, I had one of the Toshiba N300 4 terabyte variants. Not long after I installed it, it started squealing and destroying itself. Might have been a freak accident tho

Seemed very hard. For my personal use case, I will definitely be going with something more user friendly. Good job though.

Ive been thinking about converting my old laptop (2 cores, 4 threads 2.1ghz) into a nas, but i also find it useful as a minecraft server (2-10) players, could i possibly run both at the same time? or would i need an upgrade to the cpu (i found a 4 core with hyper-threading at 3.2ghz)

is it worth getting used toshiba/hgst 4tb drives for $50/ea. for very budget "nas"?

What was the HBA Card?

Next he is gonna upgrade to 2 petabytes lol.

Is this a Dell computer you are using as your TrueNas server, if it is a Dell what model is it?

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i see you're running ecc ram, unregistered that is I assume?

What do you think is the Best Motherboard/CPU combo for a PC-NAS ?

could you teach us how to create server for ark survival pls ?

Dang. I wish I could get new drives sent to me.

Your videos makes so jelous lol

What are you doing with all those Lenovos in the background?! 🤓

My NAS is running Windows 10 Pro, and it works great. I disabled the auto updates, and now I haven't rebooted in 2 months. Is anyone else using Windows?

holy SHITE im early

I see 3 Lenovo mini pcs in the backround on the bottom right. So Im assuming your going to do a cluster with them. Proxmox, XCP-ng just a guess. SHHHHHHH spoilers

I dont have a NAS but if I did I would not have any spinning drives....way too slow. Nvme is the way to go.........

Must be nice getting them ssd...fk expensive af...:,(

Hii

I just found your channel, I saw your promox video got interested. Great job

I am sorry but this video is triggering for me asit reminds me of when my father used to beat me with a rope. do not think it is appropriate to post content that could be triggering for others and hope the person who made this video will consider the impact it has on their audience.

There is a easier way with all drives plugged in you jist type in /sudo del all -f sda0*9