Recertified Hard Drives?

[neurosis]

Nothing bad to say about LSI controllers, I only have experience with the onboard ones, but I have no doubt the expansion style card will be a performer

I'm not using a graphics card in this so I figure that if I ever decide to move to SAS drives for what ever reason, I have a pci-e 4.0 x16 slot open for a large LSI controller card.  I'd have to do some math to figure out how many drives I could run on that port before it bottlenecks but I'm guessing several.  I found an expansion card that will run at least 8 SAS drives. or a ridiculous number of SATA drives. 

[neurosis]

Truenas Scale is up and running.  still waiting for the drives to show up.

This has been a fun little project.

[mkd]

been tinkering with a man-cave media setup in the garage. Need to get Plex setup at some point and go sailing for some FLAC music content.
 got this WIIM streamer. It's really sweet and cheap considering crazy audiophile pricing

[neurosis]

been tinkering with a man-cave media setup in the garage. Need to get Plex setup at some point and go sailing for some FLAC music content.
 got this WIIM streamer. It's really sweet and cheap considering crazy audiophile pricing

I purchased an Asustor NAS not long ago thinking 'I'll never fill this thing up' and quickly realized that I have a problem.   I've built a super nice media center, and at first, was ripping my bluray's in a way that saved a lot of space.  Then my dumb ass when and set up a surround sound system and am having to re-rip everything and encoding with surround so the space is disappearing fast.

This new build is going to have 5 10tb drives in a raid z2 and I'll have 3 bays left for expansion. I think I should be good now? 

I'll use this new build as a backup device for a while until I know for sure it's going to be stable. That, and I've never used Truenas before so I'll have some initial growing pains I'm sure. 

The most recent Truenas scale has docker support so I'll be able to run my plex server on it if I decide to go that route. I made sure to get a Quick Sync CPU just in case.  Right now, I'm running plex and a few other things on a minipc and just using the NAS for storage. 

[neurosis]

My experience with Truenas so far has been pretty abysmal.  lol.

It's a super nice NAS o/s. If that's all you want to use it for. The permission scheme between it's application system and the nas shares is incredibly unnecessarily complicated.

I'm starting to figure it out and am finally able to get some apps to see some of the nas shares. 

I'd like to call this a labor of love, but it's a labor of frustration.  lol

The NAS is amazing. I way overdid the hardware I'm finding out.  haha.

[neurosis]

oh yea, and seagate exos drives are super fuckin loud.  the ironwolfs are pretty loud.  The exos are ridiculous.