Well I'll be a son of a ditch digger, I got it to work and I couldn't have done it without you Rich. I won't talk about how long or how much money I spent getting here because that's the special sort of conversation one share's when they're sure the folks listening will be kind and not tease you too much.

Wow! I've been thinking about setting up a NAS in my home for a while now, and when I saw part 1, I remembered the Precision T5820 I got from work when they moved us to laptops and retired the machines we had on our desks! IT let me take the machine I had been using after they wiped it. After the 1st part of this series, I opened it up and was pleasantly surprised to find that all 4 SATA bays are in there (1 of them still has a 2.5" 1TB drive), as is an original Dell PCIe NVME adapter board that can hold up to 4 NVMe drives (with one slot populated by the 512GB boot drive), and video card. This build is going to be super cheap for me if all I have to worry about is adding more memory (I have to check if the two sticks add up to 16 or 32GB), more storage, and possibly some 2.5Gb Ethernet gear! 😁

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

That's a great find! Best of luck with your new home server!

This channel is so underrated

I bought the Dell Precision 7920 because of you guys. Put together truenas scale with ecc memory and appreciate your guidance from the first video.

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

So happy we could help you on your journey! This made our day!

Raid Owl did a good video on how to get your install DISK to be usable - but I hope scale figures out how to utilize the boot disk in the future, especially if it's NVME.

I have a Dell R720 with 12 cores and 128 gigs of ram, running windows server 2019. Right now the only service I have running on it is blue iris. On a side note, with only one camera (PTZ) running, its desk top quiet.

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

The R720 is a great platform!

Great video - nice and clear steps. I was able to get a truenas seever tunning with some old hardware. I am lost when it comes to remote access. I dont have enough IT experience to get running. Experimented with Open VPN but underststand the server function does not exist anymore. Would love some assistance and maybe a video giving possible solution to safely get remote access. Would be a good example of how to take Truenas to the next level and a good video on getting applications running. I know there are some new services that may work, but again I do not have enough ability to implement.

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

I love requests like this! We’ll add it to the list, thank you!

@Grat1616

10 ай бұрын

@@2GuysTek Awesome - I did look into TailScale but was not able to get set up properly.

This is just my opinion, and I am sure everyone has their own, but I recommend always installing the OS on GPT partitions, and set the BIOS to be UEFI and on Secure Boot if you can, just to have that extra layer of security while your server is booting the OS.

@gearboxworks

10 ай бұрын

Why GPT?

@IanGSully

10 ай бұрын

@@gearboxworks Why, I am glad you asked. If you do not use GPT partitions, you will not be able to boot using UEFI mode.

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

All good points to add! Thanks for the comment!

I have a mini PC with limited internal storage upgrade optionss. Would s hard drive enclosure plugged into a USB port work?

What is the swap partition used for? Is it installed on the same drive as truenas?

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

It’s the Linux swap partition. Its sole purpose is for OS memory management and is self-managed by the Debian OS that SCALE is built on.

Is it better to run containers directly in proxmox or trueNAS?

@2GuysTek

8 ай бұрын

Honestly, it’s going to come down to what you’re more comfortable with. Effectively both platforms offer the same functionality. I’m more pro TrueNAS personally, but you’ll get the same results either way.

@Elrevisor2k

8 ай бұрын

thanks @@2GuysTek for taking the time to answer. =)

32Gb RAM can be not enough. 128Gb can be overkill, so select something in between. Does it assign a name to host? I hate to use IP.

4:59 In the first video I see that they install two WD Blue SN570 500GB and in this video it is shown that there are three that they installed....... where did they install the third? I can't "create pool" (mirror) because one of my NVMe is the "boot-pool" Help!

What's the power consumption in iddle with this disks?

@2GuysTek

9 ай бұрын

70-90W so says my Kill-a-Watt.

@frankbozaro7706

9 ай бұрын

@@2GuysTek thx🙂

First home server, first comment

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

love it!

ventoy.......

Seems like a TrueNAS video with a click bait title.

@2GuysTek

10 ай бұрын

We will be creating more videos using the build to help people with their first home servers. This one is showcasing TrueNAS SCALE, others will show case other systems. Is there one in particular you're interested in?