Switch to Truenas Core 13

[pegasuspc]

Greetings
I am Currently running OMV 6 as my nas os. I have been wanting to switch to Truenas For Quite Some Time. is there a certain drive setup i need to use

My Current Setup is as follows:
M5A97 LE Mainboard
AMD Athlon X3 455 Rana CPU
Corsair Vengence DDR3 Ram x16gb
WD 1tb Drive x4
WD Blue 320 GB OS Drive
Hitachi 4tb Drive
500 Watt Corsair PSU

The 4tb drive has our Bluray collection on it the 1 tb drives are setup as a Raid0
wouldi need bigger drives before I Switch or would the 4x1tb drives work.

Thanks
Mike

 

[artlessknave]

you need to replatform to supported hardware before you worry about drives. stick with OMV. you will likely have to make a new pool with new disks on new supported hardware.

 

[ChrisRJ]

I have been wanting to switch to Truenas For Quite Some Time.

Can you please elaborate on why you want to do this?

 

[Davvo]

I suggest you the following resources to start understanding how zfs/TrueNAS works (and why you are being told to have proper hardware).

Introduction to ZFS

This is a short introduction to ZFS. It is really only intended to convey the bare minimum knowledge needed to start diving into ZFS and is in no way meant to cut Michael W. Lucas' and Allan Jude's book income. It is a bit of a spiritual...

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Hardware Recommendations Guide

This is the latest edition of the FreeNAS Community hardware recommendations guide. The current major version is R2, dated January 2021, with the last minor update on 2021-01-24. The format has moved away from the forum post form factor, to...

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https://www.ixsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ZFS_Storage_Pool_Layout_White_Paper_February_2022.pdf

Multiply your problems with SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. In the last year or two, we’ve had a resurgence of users asking about SATA Port Multipliers and cheap SATA controllers. Please, do NOT use...

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What's all the noise about HBAs, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with, a server. RAID controllers typically aggregate several disks into a Virtual Disk abstraction of some sort...

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Some insights into SLOG/ZIL with ZFS on FreeNAS

What is the ZIL? POSIX provides a facility for the system or an application to make sure that data requested to be written is actually committed to stable storage: a synchronous write request. Upon completion of a sync write request, the underlying filesystem is supposed to guarantee that a...

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I could link a few more, but this should more or less cover the basics.