ChrisHolzer
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Hi everyone!
I'm considering to use TrueNas for a new NAS build but I am not sure if my plan is a good one or not.
Goal:
I'm considering to use TrueNas for a new NAS build but I am not sure if my plan is a good one or not.
Goal:
- Store all our movies and pictures
- Host Plex Server with hardware encoding (GTX 1650 super)
- Host nextcloud server
- LAN clients (windows) must be able to directly access their nextcloud data stored on the NAS via cifs/smb
(it must not be required to run the nextcloud client on each windows PC and store a copy of all files locally on the client which are already present in the LAN on the NAS)
- LAN clients (windows) must be able to directly access their nextcloud data stored on the NAS via cifs/smb
- 2x (old) 60GB Intel SSDs - boot-pool
- 4x 12Tb Seagate Ironwolf in RaidZ1: stores movies and pictures
(I want these to spin down when not in use. typically they will not be accessed for more than 3h per day in the evening - 5 hours per day on weekends, so no need to have them spinning 24/7 producing heat and noise) - 3x Samsung 870 EVO 2 TB in Raidz1: contains Plex server App including temporary transcode files, nextcloud server app including the data users sync to it.
Reasoning:
watching movies and viewing pictures happens very rarely - so I don't want to have the HDDs spinning 24/7 which causes noise and heat (system is in the living space).
We use Plex's DVR feature in combination with an HDhomerun, so having plex on the SSD pool with the temp. transcoding files seems reasonable I guess?
Nextcloud is used quite a lot but we don't have that much stored on it - so to also keep the HDDs spun down I want that on the SSD pool.
- Does my plan make sense?
- Seems like the boot-pool can't be used for anything else but the TrueNas OS. Considering that new SSD's are quite large, do you guys really use i.e. 2x 250GB SSDs just for TrueNAS? That seems.... inefficient. I guess I am missing something here - but a Thumb Drive is strongly discuraged.
- Should hardware encoding work with the Plex App? I could not test that yet as my 1650 Super is currently in use in my productive system.
- I could not find any way to have my windows clients directly access the data stored on the nextcloud server app.
We really don't want to run the nextcloud app on each windows PC and then have a local copy of the data that is already available on our LAN on our NAS.
Is that even possible?