another update for anyone interested, after 14 months of usage
- even for a noob like me, TrueNAS Core is a superb piece of software for a NAS (given it's restrictions for a someone like me, specifically lack of apps and plugins restrictions)
- a minimum amount of time and testing is required for new users before a production setup - for this learning even an ancient PC with 4 gb of RAM is ok
- my mirror boot pool of 2 tiny USB sticks continues to run fine
- I continue to be happy with my decision to migrate to TrueNAS - Thank you IX Systems !
what I miss from Synology?
- a photo gallery for my family members and maybe a couple of stable and easy to upgrade plugins
So I bought a used mini HP PC for 150 € and added an SSD disk. I made a few tests with TrueNAS Scale with limited success ( I'm a home user with no IT background and limited time) so I gave up and installed OMV with Portainer. It is a mini server with less than 7 W of consumption.
At present I have 2 NASes.
The TrueNAS Core on Enterprise (!) hardware, will be the reliable source of truth for my precious data. I'll consider what time it will be powered on, maybe for 2-3 days every weekend for maintaining backups, SMART tests, periodic scrubs etc.
The OMV on the mini PC will serve my needs for network disk, photo gallery, Syncthing etc. PLUS will be spare hardware my experiements with other platforms including Scale for possible migration to Scale for my main NAS in the future.
- even for a noob like me, TrueNAS Core is a superb piece of software for a NAS (given it's restrictions for a someone like me, specifically lack of apps and plugins restrictions)
- a minimum amount of time and testing is required for new users before a production setup - for this learning even an ancient PC with 4 gb of RAM is ok
- my mirror boot pool of 2 tiny USB sticks continues to run fine
- I continue to be happy with my decision to migrate to TrueNAS - Thank you IX Systems !
what I miss from Synology?
- a photo gallery for my family members and maybe a couple of stable and easy to upgrade plugins
So I bought a used mini HP PC for 150 € and added an SSD disk. I made a few tests with TrueNAS Scale with limited success ( I'm a home user with no IT background and limited time) so I gave up and installed OMV with Portainer. It is a mini server with less than 7 W of consumption.
At present I have 2 NASes.
The TrueNAS Core on Enterprise (!) hardware, will be the reliable source of truth for my precious data. I'll consider what time it will be powered on, maybe for 2-3 days every weekend for maintaining backups, SMART tests, periodic scrubs etc.
The OMV on the mini PC will serve my needs for network disk, photo gallery, Syncthing etc. PLUS will be spare hardware my experiements with other platforms including Scale for possible migration to Scale for my main NAS in the future.
