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Hi everyone.
I was given an old HP server box (HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Server: Xeon X3430, 16GB RAM, 1x 120GB ADATA SU800 SSD to boot TrueNAS from), and decided to use it as an upgrade from my poor old QNAP TS-410. I did some google searches and a lot of reading, as well as a lot of viewing of videos on various options on YouTube, and decided on TrueNAS Core. I have a variety of consumer 120 and 240G SSDs here spare I can use as the TrueNAS boot drive if that ADATA turns out to be unsuitable.
I'll use this HP server hardware for a while, and will build a new rig some time in the next year or two to replace it, but even this hardware should perform much better than the QNAP box did, and will allow me to run things like Plex on the "new" NAS, instead of on another machine, which is my gaming rig, freeing up resources and performance on the gaming rig.
While yes, I'm aware the Xeon is very outdated and wouldn't be great for a multi-user plex setup, I'm usually the only plex user, and most content is in 720P or even less, so it should cope, and I found the biggest bottleneck I was experiencing with the TS-410 was it struggling to serve up data fast enough - it took a good 2 to 30 seconds, sometimes longer, before streaming could begin, depending on various factors. I expect that this should improve with the data being on the TrueNAS Core box, and will certainly improve yet again when I build a new box in the future to run TrueNAS Core on.
I've been reading and I have not got the HP box setup yet, I'm still learning and experimenting with it before I copy any data to it. I was going to use the HP P212 Smart Array Controller connected to 4x 3TB WD Reds, but from what I've read, I may be better off connecting those WD Reds directly to the mobo and getting TrueNAS to handle the RAID. Oh, plan is to run RAID 5 - the data is replaceable and backed up elsewhere, but it's such a hassle when it's multiple TBs, which yes, I know, is nothing compared to many people here.
I have a spare stack of 4x 2TB spinning rust (WD and Seagate, various models) I'll use for testing purposes before setting up the system "properly", and once I've got it up and running, those will go into the poor old QNAP TS-410 for storage of data that isn't required often and where speed is not a concern at all - things like the install image for TrueNAS Core, for example, so it's not taking up space on my main laptop or on the gaming rig.
Any experience or advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
I was given an old HP server box (HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Server: Xeon X3430, 16GB RAM, 1x 120GB ADATA SU800 SSD to boot TrueNAS from), and decided to use it as an upgrade from my poor old QNAP TS-410. I did some google searches and a lot of reading, as well as a lot of viewing of videos on various options on YouTube, and decided on TrueNAS Core. I have a variety of consumer 120 and 240G SSDs here spare I can use as the TrueNAS boot drive if that ADATA turns out to be unsuitable.
I'll use this HP server hardware for a while, and will build a new rig some time in the next year or two to replace it, but even this hardware should perform much better than the QNAP box did, and will allow me to run things like Plex on the "new" NAS, instead of on another machine, which is my gaming rig, freeing up resources and performance on the gaming rig.
While yes, I'm aware the Xeon is very outdated and wouldn't be great for a multi-user plex setup, I'm usually the only plex user, and most content is in 720P or even less, so it should cope, and I found the biggest bottleneck I was experiencing with the TS-410 was it struggling to serve up data fast enough - it took a good 2 to 30 seconds, sometimes longer, before streaming could begin, depending on various factors. I expect that this should improve with the data being on the TrueNAS Core box, and will certainly improve yet again when I build a new box in the future to run TrueNAS Core on.
I've been reading and I have not got the HP box setup yet, I'm still learning and experimenting with it before I copy any data to it. I was going to use the HP P212 Smart Array Controller connected to 4x 3TB WD Reds, but from what I've read, I may be better off connecting those WD Reds directly to the mobo and getting TrueNAS to handle the RAID. Oh, plan is to run RAID 5 - the data is replaceable and backed up elsewhere, but it's such a hassle when it's multiple TBs, which yes, I know, is nothing compared to many people here.
I have a spare stack of 4x 2TB spinning rust (WD and Seagate, various models) I'll use for testing purposes before setting up the system "properly", and once I've got it up and running, those will go into the poor old QNAP TS-410 for storage of data that isn't required often and where speed is not a concern at all - things like the install image for TrueNAS Core, for example, so it's not taking up space on my main laptop or on the gaming rig.
Any experience or advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
