Hello from Ohio.

Sdkmichigan

Cadet

Oct 25, 2020

New to freeNas systems. Using as a home server for video backup for my drone video.

joeschmuck

Old Man

Moderator

Oct 25, 2020

Welcome to the forums.

ESXi (free) 8.02 (I know free ESXi is dead now, really sucks) | TrueNAS CORE and/or SCALE (generally the current version) on a 16GB Virtual Drive | 1 CPU Core / 2 Hyperthreads | 16GB RAM | Two 4TB NVMe drives as Boot and Datastore for ESXi | Four 4TB NVMe drives PASSTHRU to TrueNAS VM (~10TB RAIDZ1)

Intel E3-1230v5 (3.4GHz) Skylake CPU | Supermicro X11SSM-F | 64 GB Samsung DDR4 ECC 2133 MHz RAM | One IOCREST SI-PEX40062 4 port SATA PCI-E (in pass-thru for NAS Drives) | 256 GB SSD Boot Drive | 1TB Laptop Hard Drive for Datastores | Three HGST HDN726060ALE614 6TB Deskstar NAS Hard Drives and one Seagate 6TB Drive (RAIDZ2, 8.72TB healthy usable space) and one 1TB NVMe (for development purposes) | All wrapped up in a Cooler Master HAF 912 case | CyberPower LX1500GU UPS

ESXi 7.0 (updates applied) or TrueNAS on bare metal | Supermicro A1SAM-F | 16GB RAM | 128GB SSD Boot Drive and datastore | Two 500GB Laptop Hard Drives and periodically other drives for testing purposes.

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TrueNAS NVMe Server Build
Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide
Multi-Report Hard Drive/SSD/NVMe Reporting Script
RAID Capacity Calculator or Biduleohm RAID Calculator
Decode Your S.M.A.R.T. Data
FreeNAS Hardware Recommendations by Ericloewe
Resources List including Detailed Hardware and System Build Notes

Important Announcement for The TrueNAS Community.