Keep at it John. It's always helpful to watch what other people are doing. I learned a bunch just by looking at your screens. I inherited a Dell Poweredge T110 II from an architecture firm I look after (I set them up with a nice Synology system) and I got to play with setting up TrueNAS Scale on the Dell with 4 drives. It's so quiet I don't even know it's on and it's under my desk in my quiet office. That surprised me. It's just working as a TimeMachine backup for two of my Macs, and It's great being able to erase everything and start over and learn TrueNAS. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks. Mark
I’m glad the video was useful! It’s comments like these that inspire me to create more content. Thanks again for your support and I’m glad to hear you’re giving TrueNAS Scale a try! Those PowerEdge towers are really quiet for sure!
How much did you buy that system? And if affordable can you share the dealer's website. I have an old dell poweredge T320 running Proxmox that is extremely slow especially when you run windows vms. Don't know whether upgrading it from hard disks to SSDs will be worth it or just purchasing a newer affordable system.
The R740xd was about $800 from Core4Solutions in Minnesota. That doesn't include the CPU, RAM or drives. If you're running your current T320 at home, I'd consider going with a newer PowerEdge T machine or possibly a Precision 7820 so you'll be able to run at least on 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable. Another option would be to build your own PC on Intel's consumer 14th Gen platform which would come to a similar price point. Promox now supports those efficiency cores on the newer CPUs, so you shouldn't have any issues there! I personally run my VMs & video editing on NVMe or SATA SSDs only and my business photo libraries run on slower SAS based Seagate Exos drives in RAID 1. I have an average throughput of about 200MB/s per drive on those compared to 550MB/s on SATA or a max of ~1100MB/s over NVME while being bottlenecked by 10GbE. Let me know if you have any questions!
Host your own domain? To show services externally? Or are you referring to a AD domain controller on truenas? If you’re looking at the first one, I’d recommend using Cloudflare DNS, Nextcloud with a SSL cert and then port forwarding 443 or you could go the reverse proxy route as well. SMB/NFS isn’t supposed to be used externally on the internet.
Sure, I can look into that. I’d recommend you’d use a Wireguard VPN (assuming you have a public IP address) instead of having all of your services public facing because of the security risk. Forwarding ports to services is a bad idea especially if they aren’t hardened. I would only forward a VPN or maybe in a blue moon SSH/port 22 through my firewall and that’s it. Again, SMB & NFS aren’t supposed to be public on the internet.
Keep at it John. It's always helpful to watch what other people are doing. I learned a bunch just by looking at your screens. I inherited a Dell Poweredge T110 II from an architecture firm I look after (I set them up with a nice Synology system) and I got to play with setting up TrueNAS Scale on the Dell with 4 drives. It's so quiet I don't even know it's on and it's under my desk in my quiet office. That surprised me. It's just working as a TimeMachine backup for two of my Macs, and It's great being able to erase everything and start over and learn TrueNAS. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks. Mark
I’m glad the video was useful! It’s comments like these that inspire me to create more content.
Thanks again for your support and I’m glad to hear you’re giving TrueNAS Scale a try! Those PowerEdge towers are really quiet for sure!
How much did you buy that system?
And if affordable can you share the dealer's website. I have an old dell poweredge T320 running Proxmox that is extremely slow especially when you run windows vms. Don't know whether upgrading it from hard disks to SSDs will be worth it or just purchasing a newer affordable system.
The R740xd was about $800 from Core4Solutions in Minnesota. That doesn't include the CPU, RAM or drives.
If you're running your current T320 at home, I'd consider going with a newer PowerEdge T machine or possibly a Precision 7820 so you'll be able to run at least on 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable.
Another option would be to build your own PC on Intel's consumer 14th Gen platform which would come to a similar price point. Promox now supports those efficiency cores on the newer CPUs, so you shouldn't have any issues there!
I personally run my VMs & video editing on NVMe or SATA SSDs only and my business photo libraries run on slower SAS based Seagate Exos drives in RAID 1. I have an average throughput of about 200MB/s per drive on those compared to 550MB/s on SATA or a max of ~1100MB/s over NVME while being bottlenecked by 10GbE. Let me know if you have any questions!
www.core4solutions.com
Can you please make video how to host your own domain through TrueNAS
Host your own domain? To show services externally? Or are you referring to a AD domain controller on truenas?
If you’re looking at the first one, I’d recommend using Cloudflare DNS, Nextcloud with a SSL cert and then port forwarding 443 or you could go the reverse proxy route as well.
SMB/NFS isn’t supposed to be used externally on the internet.
@@johnstech7 Thanks for responding bro, I just wanna host may own domain ,truenas ,I just wanna host a lot of domain ,under my own server
Can you please make video how to host domain from GoDaddy please
Sure, I can look into that.
I’d recommend you’d use a Wireguard VPN (assuming you have a public IP address) instead of having all of your services public facing because of the security risk. Forwarding ports to services is a bad idea especially if they aren’t hardened. I would only forward a VPN or maybe in a blue moon SSH/port 22 through my firewall and that’s it.
Again, SMB & NFS aren’t supposed to be public on the internet.