SaltyCoffee
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Soooo.... I thought I'd update this thread, the ongoing saga that is TN parenthood. I was building a proper gaming PC and thought, why not revisit the NAS while I'm at it. The build referenced in the previously mentioned thread is on it's last legs, and I've come across additional information in my adventures that make building the TN unit I'm after more tenable, still adhering to my original criteria.
One thing I'd like to credit the helpful souls here with is that the USB set up is definitely not a long term solution; CONFIRMED. You can visibly see the damage this set up does to the drives over time. And in the spirit of full disclosure, this thing is running < recommended RAM (6GB), and non-ECC on top of that. Also running at 93% capacity haha (did I get all the newbie hits there?). It has utterly ravaged these external USB drives to pieces. It's quite impressive. And I'm the only one using this system for maybe a couple hours of PLEX time a day (and the traffic that comes with aggressively updating the library with content on a regular basis). The drives are still working, but I have zero confidence in them making it to the end of the year. The data itself seems to have miraculously maintained integrity, though (no idea how). Not one lost file to corruption yet... (yet...).
As even I'm concerned with this set up now, I've moved the drives (boot and pool) to an old Mac Pro. Which I was reading constantly here that it doesn't work, and there are plenty of people who found that to be true. I was quite lucky, in light of that, that this was a plug and play solution for me. Dropped the drives in and booted it right up. Just had a vnet issue with the plex jail, which was easily fixed by just changing the vnet interface to the ethernet and then back to auto. Plex came right up after that. Drives are resilvering as we speak. And getting the drives back on a proper SATA bus even brought one back that was faulting constantly. And another that was degraded, came back to online status. So the drives collectively gasping a sigh of relief. Happy to be running ECC RAM and CPU now too (xeon with the minimum 8GB mem but more is coming). I've ticked all the best practices boxes with the move (well, no IPMI). The only issue is of ventilation. This brings me to my question...
TrueNAS is doing nothing with the fans at the moment, which is to be expected. Can this be changed? Is there a way to get it to make use of the fans in the system? This is a temporary set up until I build the NAS I really want, but I'd still rather not leave this in it's current state of open on the floor next to a box fan. Between summer filth and all the cats we have, this is something I need to solve. Any suggestions appreciated.
Also, bonus question: If anyone can suggest a good (meaning any) Mini-ITX mainboard that checks all the boxes for TN and has a LGA1366 socket, please let me know! Seems to be a bit of a unicorn that one.....
Thanks!
Soooo.... I thought I'd update this thread, the ongoing saga that is TN parenthood. I was building a proper gaming PC and thought, why not revisit the NAS while I'm at it. The build referenced in the previously mentioned thread is on it's last legs, and I've come across additional information in my adventures that make building the TN unit I'm after more tenable, still adhering to my original criteria.
One thing I'd like to credit the helpful souls here with is that the USB set up is definitely not a long term solution; CONFIRMED. You can visibly see the damage this set up does to the drives over time. And in the spirit of full disclosure, this thing is running < recommended RAM (6GB), and non-ECC on top of that. Also running at 93% capacity haha (did I get all the newbie hits there?). It has utterly ravaged these external USB drives to pieces. It's quite impressive. And I'm the only one using this system for maybe a couple hours of PLEX time a day (and the traffic that comes with aggressively updating the library with content on a regular basis). The drives are still working, but I have zero confidence in them making it to the end of the year. The data itself seems to have miraculously maintained integrity, though (no idea how). Not one lost file to corruption yet... (yet...).
As even I'm concerned with this set up now, I've moved the drives (boot and pool) to an old Mac Pro. Which I was reading constantly here that it doesn't work, and there are plenty of people who found that to be true. I was quite lucky, in light of that, that this was a plug and play solution for me. Dropped the drives in and booted it right up. Just had a vnet issue with the plex jail, which was easily fixed by just changing the vnet interface to the ethernet and then back to auto. Plex came right up after that. Drives are resilvering as we speak. And getting the drives back on a proper SATA bus even brought one back that was faulting constantly. And another that was degraded, came back to online status. So the drives collectively gasping a sigh of relief. Happy to be running ECC RAM and CPU now too (xeon with the minimum 8GB mem but more is coming). I've ticked all the best practices boxes with the move (well, no IPMI). The only issue is of ventilation. This brings me to my question...
TrueNAS is doing nothing with the fans at the moment, which is to be expected. Can this be changed? Is there a way to get it to make use of the fans in the system? This is a temporary set up until I build the NAS I really want, but I'd still rather not leave this in it's current state of open on the floor next to a box fan. Between summer filth and all the cats we have, this is something I need to solve. Any suggestions appreciated.
Also, bonus question: If anyone can suggest a good (meaning any) Mini-ITX mainboard that checks all the boxes for TN and has a LGA1366 socket, please let me know! Seems to be a bit of a unicorn that one.....
Thanks!
