Out of all videos this man right here has walked me thru this step by step. I tried other videos but all has failed leading me to restarting each time. This man knows his stuff and did an amazing job. 10/10 good sir.
I just wanted to thank you so much for this! I tried to set up a pc using TrueNAS last year and got totally lost, this video was absolutely a godsend in letting me get it working - a couple successful hours, compared to a week of failure. Thank you again!
Truenas works perfectly, I turned my old pc into a network server with a 1 TB boot disk and 4 x 4 TB storage disk this one works perfectly for my home studio projects
@@pennystreet Only gonna max at 1Gb or about 120MB due to network limits. Upgrading to 10Gb will allow faster speeds and more conformity between devices. Don't waste time and money with 2.5Gb and 5Gb. The average HDD these days can hit 185-210MB. SSD's are obviously faster. I have 4 8TB in Raid6 with 2disk failure giving me about 14TB usable and usually around 350MB transfer speeds...start adding more disks and I can get even faster.
No questions, everything was explained! And certainly I learned from this video, my subscription to your channel was certainly not in vain !! Thank you very much for this explanation. This weekend I'm making a nas system!! 😉
Our video today is building a Home DIY NAS with a limited budget. We can start from a 0$-50$ budget depending on what is available around us. We don't need to spend money if we have an old pc that can meet the requirements for us to be able to get a NAS up and running, however, if it needs to be upgraded we need to buy some parts to upgrade it, otherwise, we can also buy old pc on eBay that is like mine with a budget of 30$-50$. We will be using TrueNAS as the operating system. I will guide you from step one until your Home Nas is ready to use. Have fun and enjoy.
The real problem with this is the lack of redundancy. At a minimum, you want two hard drives in a NAS. More would be ideal. Hard drives fail, and you don't want to lose your important data because you didn't have redundancy or a backup. I think four is the sweet spot, but you can get by with two. But, then, on top of that, you should be backing up your files away from the NAS. If you have a hardware failure (this is a 10-year-old PC, after all), you could lose everything no matter how many drives are in your array. Use the 3:2:1 backup scheme to protect yourself. Even if your backup system just consists of plugging a USB hard drive into the machine and running a nightly backup to that, you need to do it. Ideally, you would keep a backup off site. So, if you have two USB hard drives, you can swap them out occasionally and keep one of them somewhere else. I keep one of my USB hard drives from home in my desk at the office, and then swap it out for the other one occasionally. Many routers can be used for simple NAS duties, so that could be a good way to handle backups from your NAS.
At .33 per kWh be very cautious on building a system like this. You need to run it for 365days a year, so you and to consider the cost of power each month / per year. On average a PC can consume 100watts. 100W uses 0.1 kWh per hour x 356 days a year at .33 per kWh. This system alone can cost you around $876 a year if the price per kWh doesn't increase. If where you live is lower than than price month over month then you'll see a cheaper cost, but not by much. The best option in my opinion is to find a Celeron processor or Amr processor and look at other options similar to TrueNass. TrueNas is great 👍 and the video is great. Just consider the cost year over year before you start your journey and commit the money.
Another tip: SSDs may cost more than HDD, but SSDs use much less power and are much faster. If you really need the bulk storage. You can spin it up once or twice a month to do the backup and turn it off for the next backup in order to conserve power
2007-2008 PC's are amazing for it, because motherboard would often have 8 (EIGHT!!!) sata ports (for all these cd/dvd drives that were popular at the time).
This was a very good tutorial. I would suggest that you let people know how to select things in the original menu. People may not know you use the space bar to select. I will make a NAS now and use this video and recommend it anytime. Thanks again.
This video helped me greatIy. Got it all working and mapped the drive successfully. Unforunately i could not get it to find a single plugin and was not able to get plex at all.
Just finished following along without only one slight hiccup -had to use BIOS instead of UEFI on my old Dell Optiplex 755. I hope you'll continue to make more tutorials with TrueNas as I'm hoping to set up mine as a replacement for G Photos. Maraming salamat!
Great explanation... But man... so much trouble for something that used to be done (in the Windows XP era) literally with 2 clicks. Ok, I understand that NAS is much more packed with features now, but at my former company we used shared folders on a WIN XP machine for years and it worked perfectly. No passwords needed to be entered or anything configured. There were no restrictions or any problems. Everything was flying...
thankyou for a wonderful tutorial master Tpro, can i request for part 2 adding user and how to manage like who can read and write only, the one who can edit. advance thankyou master TPRO
Although it's cheap to use one of these Dell Optiplexes SFF it's very limited to drive space. I think it's much better to go the optiplex tower where you can add more HDD and a PCI Sata card to have a NAS with software raid capability. For a tutorial, yes! saludo ako sa quality ng video at very concise.
great video... been looking for this ...a question though. can i access this NAS from other network? eg. leave that pc in my office and access from my home, or smartphone?
Why would you want your NAS to be accessed outside your home network knowing the fact that you are susceptible to networks attacks and the risk of losing all of your data?
Great video, loved it and followed every step successfully! Just couple notes: Please show how to reach that server through mac and linux too To this day I've solved it on my mac, but not yet on my linux machine
can you make a tutorial video how nas drive is being used. and what is the file type when it was been saved or what will happen if the hardware in nas drive fail.
Hi, im total technical noob but i would like to ask: can you acces that server from anywhere? like from your phone or friends house pc by typing that ip? and can you install apps like pi-hole or jellyfin? or is this different type of system and this is just another storage drive but on network?
Hi Torogi Pro, Your step by step video tutorial was awesome. But i have one question sir. Everytime i created a user account, there is an automatic creation of folder named to the user i created. I just want to ask, How can i delete that folder? Thank you...
While considering the speed and frequency of transfer rate, does it matter if we use a high performance SSD drive int the NAS device or can an old HDD work in the same way as it is showing up on your video...? Also, can I set up nas on a raspberry pi board if possible? Please do share your views on this...
Hi Im planning on doing something like this since I am having storage issue and have lost trust on cloud storages recently (Google Drive 👎⛔), can this also be accessed on the internet like a personal cloud?
sir, i did it,but my question is, how you gonna speed up the read and write or copying of data? mine was 15mbps tops. and once i did, i'm surprise that the files in the slave disk for reading writing data were erased and once i put the hdd in ordinary pc, the pc did not recognized it anymore.
It's not working for meI clicked on install and a few seconds later it just keeps saying command timed out retrying command and it does that constantly any ideas?
After my installation is done I reboot it but I keep getting "Cant access web interface". It isn't giving me the IP address to access the server. Any help would be much appreciated.
Awesome video! Haven't seen many that use one drive in the pool. Would it be fairly straightforward to add more devices later or would I need to do a new storage pool at that point?
im having a real issue right now. when im trying to put my ip in the search bar at the top of google it just gives me a load of searches. idk why its not taking me directly to the website please help
Now trying it for the 10th time and it just doesn't work, it installs without any problem unitil it asks to reboot,.. when it powers up i get the message no operation system. Boot disk is a 256gb ssd (installing windows does work)
Yes. We are using truenas on a dell t320 baremetal. Primarily for media production and second is for document sharing. However you need to do backups, automated scrubs, smart tests and etc. to avoid downtime as much as possible. If you have a windows server domain, you can import Active Directories from your domain controller to TrueNas and it should ask for authentication based on your domain controller before accessing your SMB share. A warning though, since you are about to use it on your company. Study documentation on freeBSD and ZFS in general, it is not your typical plug n play NAS unlike Synology or QNap.
So I have a TrueNAS installation and an ac power meter and determined that my setup only consumes around 30w while idle. I'm not sure how this compares to commercial dedicated nas units but to me the energy usage seemed quite reasonable. My setup just happens to be on a Dell Optiplex 9010 that I got for free like in this video but I'm using a 2.5in 500GB sata III internal hdd boot drive and an external 4TB 7200RPM seagate enterprise HDD in an USB 3.0 enslosure with mine.
Is there any possibility to connect the USB external hard drive to the NAS and copy files into the internal nas hard drive via TrueNas system ? Without going through it from a pc or Mac ? Love your videos! Gained more knowledge from the channel! Good luck and keep it up! Regards from Sri Lanka 👊🔥
Don't even bother, you'll hard a hard time due to file system compatibility (zfs for truenas). Just do a teracopy/robocopy from client to the nas and you should be good.
I just turned my 9 year old gaming rig from highschool into a NAS with this video. Thank you so much!!!!!
How is your electric bill? Did it rise from power consumption?
Out of all videos this man right here has walked me thru this step by step. I tried other videos but all has failed leading me to restarting each time. This man knows his stuff and did an amazing job. 10/10 good sir.
I just wanted to thank you so much for this! I tried to set up a pc using TrueNAS last year and got totally lost, this video was absolutely a godsend in letting me get it working - a couple successful hours, compared to a week of failure. Thank you again!
one of the best guide on internet for nas lovers
Truenas works perfectly, I turned my old pc into a network server with a 1 TB boot disk and 4 x 4 TB storage disk
this one works perfectly for my home studio projects
What sort of transfer speeds are you getting between your nas and your pc? 😁
@@pennystreet Only gonna max at 1Gb or about 120MB due to network limits. Upgrading to 10Gb will allow faster speeds and more conformity between devices. Don't waste time and money with 2.5Gb and 5Gb. The average HDD these days can hit 185-210MB. SSD's are obviously faster. I have 4 8TB in Raid6 with 2disk failure giving me about 14TB usable and usually around 350MB transfer speeds...start adding more disks and I can get even faster.
Thank you so much, sir. We've setup TrueNAS but for production, it's kinda buggy sometimes. The forum community is very hands-on in helping.
One of the BEST videos about setup TrueNAS. Thanks a lot!
this is 100% the information I needed to start, and popped as first video. You are THE BEST! thank you!
Best NAS tutorial i have watched. Thanks.
No questions, everything was explained!
And certainly I learned from this video, my subscription to your channel was certainly not in vain !!
Thank you very much for this explanation.
This weekend I'm making a nas system!! 😉
thank you so mutch ive been planning to bould a nas for a long time and it works thank you
Very cool video bro! I'm gonna setup my home NAS and give my old desktop a new life :) Thank you very much!
Our video today is building a Home DIY NAS with a limited budget. We can start from a 0$-50$ budget depending on what is available around us. We don't need to spend money if we have an old pc that can meet the requirements for us to be able to get a NAS up and running, however, if it needs to be upgraded we need to buy some parts to upgrade it, otherwise, we can also buy old pc on eBay that is like mine with a budget of 30$-50$. We will be using TrueNAS as the operating system. I will guide you from step one until your Home Nas is ready to use. Have fun and enjoy.
ello
yow! that's nice
Awesome job!! How much energy average it uses a month?
Amazing videos got my subscription!
The real problem with this is the lack of redundancy. At a minimum, you want two hard drives in a NAS. More would be ideal. Hard drives fail, and you don't want to lose your important data because you didn't have redundancy or a backup.
I think four is the sweet spot, but you can get by with two. But, then, on top of that, you should be backing up your files away from the NAS. If you have a hardware failure (this is a 10-year-old PC, after all), you could lose everything no matter how many drives are in your array. Use the 3:2:1 backup scheme to protect yourself. Even if your backup system just consists of plugging a USB hard drive into the machine and running a nightly backup to that, you need to do it. Ideally, you would keep a backup off site. So, if you have two USB hard drives, you can swap them out occasionally and keep one of them somewhere else. I keep one of my USB hard drives from home in my desk at the office, and then swap it out for the other one occasionally.
Many routers can be used for simple NAS duties, so that could be a good way to handle backups from your NAS.
true Nas supports raid-z3 so protect against 3 disk failures and also against silent single file errors
Really appreciate the video. Easy to follow.
Learnt something new today
Thanks
Thank you bro! I finally setup my TrueNAS on an old Intel NUC.
Very nice video. Keep it on. Thanks, Sir, for sharing your knowledge.
At .33 per kWh be very cautious on building a system like this. You need to run it for 365days a year, so you and to consider the cost of power each month / per year. On average a PC can consume 100watts. 100W uses 0.1 kWh per hour x 356 days a year at .33 per kWh. This system alone can cost you around $876 a year if the price per kWh doesn't increase. If where you live is lower than than price month over month then you'll see a cheaper cost, but not by much. The best option in my opinion is to find a Celeron processor or Amr processor and look at other options similar to TrueNass. TrueNas is great 👍 and the video is great. Just consider the cost year over year before you start your journey and commit the money.
Another tip: SSDs may cost more than HDD, but SSDs use much less power and are much faster. If you really need the bulk storage. You can spin it up once or twice a month to do the backup and turn it off for the next backup in order to conserve power
2007-2008 PC's are amazing for it, because motherboard would often have 8 (EIGHT!!!) sata ports (for all these cd/dvd drives that were popular at the time).
Thank you for your time, great video. Just what I was looking for.
This was a very good tutorial. I would suggest that you let people know how to select things in the original menu. People may not know you use the space bar to select. I will make a NAS now and use this video and recommend it anytime. Thanks again.
This video helped me greatIy. Got it all working and mapped the drive successfully. Unforunately i could not get it to find a single plugin and was not able to get plex at all.
Very good video well done
Still works in 2023. Thnx
Just finished following along without only one slight hiccup -had to use BIOS instead of UEFI on my old Dell Optiplex 755. I hope you'll continue to make more tutorials with TrueNas as I'm hoping to set up mine as a replacement for G Photos. Maraming salamat!
Great explanation...
But man... so much trouble for something that used to be done (in the Windows XP era) literally with 2 clicks.
Ok, I understand that NAS is much more packed with features now, but at my former company we used shared folders on a WIN XP machine for years and it worked perfectly.
No passwords needed to be entered or anything configured.
There were no restrictions or any problems.
Everything was flying...
Thank you, this is the best video easy to follow! My setup are an Dell Tower i5 6th Gen/8Ram/New 120gb SSD/ 2 2tb NAS Ironwolf HDD
Very good explanation and show, thanks!
thankyou for a wonderful tutorial master Tpro, can i request for part 2 adding user and how to manage like who can read and write only, the one who can edit. advance thankyou master TPRO
Excellent exercise on Home Cloud
Top man!
Thank for teaching, may i know how to do it on an old laptop, or can u kindly make one video on that...Thank u.. i m robinhood..Thank again Teacher
How fast copy speed is it. Is it only like 5mb/s? I thought it was like 130mb/s for an HDD
This helped me alot.thanks ❤️
Although it's cheap to use one of these Dell Optiplexes SFF it's very limited to drive space. I think it's much better to go the optiplex tower where you can add more HDD and a PCI Sata card to have a NAS with software raid capability. For a tutorial, yes! saludo ako sa quality ng video at very concise.
Fantastic. Do speak about NFS and SMB shares in detail in the coming videos. Would be really helpful.
Very good work!
great video... been looking for this ...a question though. can i access this NAS from other network? eg. leave that pc in my office and access from my home, or smartphone?
Yeah I too have the same question, if anyone can help us?
How to access files remotely like outside network.????
Please guide me.
Thanks
Thanks for this video. Maybe you could also create a video on how to access this NAS outside of my home network.
Why would you want your NAS to be accessed outside your home network knowing the fact that you are susceptible to networks attacks and the risk of losing all of your data?
@@AQWORLDSHealerMage exactly
@@AQWORLDSHealerMage You could set several NAS offsite, like with family members. So that everyone could have offsite backups of their files.
did u figure this out ?
Great tutorial
Great video, loved it and followed every step successfully!
Just couple notes:
Please show how to reach that server through mac and linux too
To this day I've solved it on my mac, but not yet on my linux machine
Great video, thank you for the information 🙏
Wow thanks for video, I've been searching for this. I'm wondering how about the power consumption with this spec, can you tell me please?
Normal consumption for me
If my old PC for TrueNAS, is unable to boot from usb, can use its hdd for trueNAS os boot and USB external storage as NAS Storage?
nice video..is it possible to setup in WIFI connection?
Is it possible to connect to this NAS if you are in the separate lan ?
after you build it and set it up and need more memory, how do I add more?
Thanks!
Amazing Tutorial, Thank You.
Thank you Torogi Pro
Can we access files trough internet or it just work with local network?
DELL is F12 for boot menu!
i really wanna know if you can do this with wifi
Hye thanks for such a great video. Learnt a lot first time user of NAS. However how to add more storage will it detect addition automatically?
Great video. Thanks!
I got all the way to adding it to my main PC. It says error, cant find server. I need help
This video is pure *awesome*
Thank you kind Sir!
can you make a tutorial video how nas drive is being used. and what is the file type when it was been saved or what will happen if the hardware in nas drive fail.
Hi, im total technical noob but i would like to ask: can you acces that server from anywhere? like from your phone or friends house pc by typing that ip?
and can you install apps like pi-hole or jellyfin? or is this different type of system and this is just another storage drive but on network?
would be nice to see how to add more drives for storage and redundancy.
In this build after everything is done and set up how can I add more drives without it erasing everything on the first drive?
I am sorry, I feel slow but, I got really lost after the reading of specs, you aren't using RUFUS anymore. Any particular reason for the change?
Hi Torogi Pro,
Your step by step video tutorial was awesome. But i have one question sir.
Everytime i created a user account, there is an automatic creation of folder named to the user i created.
I just want to ask,
How can i delete that folder?
Thank you...
do you have a video for live server? for small business? thank you!!
While considering the speed and frequency of transfer rate, does it matter if we use a high performance SSD drive int the NAS device or can an old HDD work in the same way as it is showing up on your video...? Also, can I set up nas on a raspberry pi board if possible? Please do share your views on this...
A soon I disable DHCP, Truenas won't be able to connect to the internet, how do I fix it?
Hello. Can I shear some selected files on my website for public using this type of server???
Hi Im planning on doing something like this since I am having storage issue and have lost trust on cloud storages recently (Google Drive 👎⛔), can this also be accessed on the internet like a personal cloud?
sir, i did it,but my question is, how you gonna speed up the read and write or copying of data? mine was 15mbps tops. and once i did, i'm surprise that the files in the slave disk for reading writing data were erased and once i put the hdd in ordinary pc, the pc did not recognized it anymore.
It's not working for meI clicked on install and a few seconds later it just keeps saying command timed out retrying command and it does that constantly any ideas?
Hey is it possible to access remotely?
After my installation is done I reboot it but I keep getting
"Cant access web interface". It isn't giving me the IP address to access the server. Any help would be much appreciated.
Is it ok for me to turn it off if not needed or not in use or do i need to have it up and running 24/7
totally ok
Awesome video! Haven't seen many that use one drive in the pool. Would it be fairly straightforward to add more devices later or would I need to do a new storage pool at that point?
im having a real issue right now. when im trying to put my ip in the search bar at the top of google it just gives me a load of searches. idk why its not taking me directly to the website
please help
Instead of ethernet can I use a wifi adapter?
Great video with step by step instructions. For home use, do I have to assign a static IP or Wired LAN connection will suffice?
Sir how can i connect my raid10 to my truenas, ican connect and share the file by just connecting it?
Now trying it for the 10th time and it just doesn't work, it installs without any problem unitil it asks to reboot,.. when it powers up i get the message no operation system. Boot disk is a 256gb ssd (installing windows does work)
Could I access in my ipad with wifi?
hi sir...how to do for same folder share to everyone just for read only?
Could you not just partition the HDD for the OS and your files?
Is there any minimum system requirement to install TRUENAS?
Thx
Can I turn off and turn on the pc without having to plug in a monitor?
is this safe to use for company office as data file server? thanks
Yes. We are using truenas on a dell t320 baremetal. Primarily for media production and second is for document sharing. However you need to do backups, automated scrubs, smart tests and etc. to avoid downtime as much as possible. If you have a windows server domain, you can import Active Directories from your domain controller to TrueNas and it should ask for authentication based on your domain controller before accessing your SMB share.
A warning though, since you are about to use it on your company. Study documentation on freeBSD and ZFS in general, it is not your typical plug n play NAS unlike Synology or QNap.
it will support data redundancy sir?
TrueNAS has mobile apps?
How to add wifi to the NAS pc
Hi. I cant seem to fin the uefi settings on the dell optiplex 780. So i cant get it to work the same way. Is there anyway around it?
@@Shrapnel_Music Yea mate already got it going, but thanks for the reply, appreciate it.
What about the operating costs (electricity)? Modern NAS use way less
So I have a TrueNAS installation and an ac power meter and determined that my setup only consumes around 30w while idle. I'm not sure how this compares to commercial dedicated nas units but to me the energy usage seemed quite reasonable. My setup just happens to be on a Dell Optiplex 9010 that I got for free like in this video but I'm using a 2.5in 500GB sata III internal hdd boot drive and an external 4TB 7200RPM seagate enterprise HDD in an USB 3.0 enslosure with mine.
Is it possible go with wi-fi ?
How do you access your Free Nas from Internet not only from your LAN?
Hello I was wondering if it's possible to connect to custom Naz builds together on the same server, or will they just show up as two separate?
so how did you connect your laptop to your NAS PC.... u missed that part... good video though
Is there any possibility to connect the USB external hard drive to the NAS and copy files into the internal nas hard drive via TrueNas system ? Without going through it from a pc or Mac ? Love your videos! Gained more knowledge from the channel! Good luck and keep it up! Regards from Sri Lanka 👊🔥
Don't even bother, you'll hard a hard time due to file system compatibility (zfs for truenas). Just do a teracopy/robocopy from client to the nas and you should be good.
can i ask sir this NAS software is life time no expiry?
Can I access it over wifi