trionic
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Thank you for the replies and the very helpful suggestions.
When I posted, I did not own a QNAP HX1688 but decides to take a risk and buy one just to try TrueNAS. So it arrived today. I prepared a TrueNAS SCALE boot USB and a (temporary for testing purposes only) installation USB, installed TNS, booted the QNAP and it works! Can't believe it. I'll need to have to a proper play and add some disks but it's a good start.
The QNAP is fairly well built but the hotswap disk caddies are all plastic and not even good plastic (ABS) so they're a real weak point. It does feel a big step down from my server-grade 4U chassis with Supermicro motherboard etc but this QNAP represents a different set of compromises to the big server (actually it's a 4U server with another 4U JBOD expansion chassis, plus a 4U fileserver - all to be replaced by QNAP + TNS).
The thing is quiet! There's an optional 10Gb Ethernet card installed with this really small LOUD fan so I disconnected that! Then the unit is quiet. We'll see how it is when it's full of disks and working hard.
I have two Samsung SSD 980 M.2 NVMe cards to put on the QNAP's motherboard for the permanent install of TNS.
I chose TrueNAS SCALE because I thought that there was a better chance of support for the QNAP hardware. My FreeNAS server of course is FreeBSD based and I will miss BSD. Maybe I'll give TrueNAS CORE try to see if that'll work.
I'll play around and see what happens!
When I posted, I did not own a QNAP HX1688 but decides to take a risk and buy one just to try TrueNAS. So it arrived today. I prepared a TrueNAS SCALE boot USB and a (temporary for testing purposes only) installation USB, installed TNS, booted the QNAP and it works! Can't believe it. I'll need to have to a proper play and add some disks but it's a good start.
The QNAP is fairly well built but the hotswap disk caddies are all plastic and not even good plastic (ABS) so they're a real weak point. It does feel a big step down from my server-grade 4U chassis with Supermicro motherboard etc but this QNAP represents a different set of compromises to the big server (actually it's a 4U server with another 4U JBOD expansion chassis, plus a 4U fileserver - all to be replaced by QNAP + TNS).
The thing is quiet! There's an optional 10Gb Ethernet card installed with this really small LOUD fan so I disconnected that! Then the unit is quiet. We'll see how it is when it's full of disks and working hard.
I have two Samsung SSD 980 M.2 NVMe cards to put on the QNAP's motherboard for the permanent install of TNS.
I chose TrueNAS SCALE because I thought that there was a better chance of support for the QNAP hardware. My FreeNAS server of course is FreeBSD based and I will miss BSD. Maybe I'll give TrueNAS CORE try to see if that'll work.
I'll play around and see what happens!
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