I’ve see quite a few channels with Patreon but never considered it myself. I think it’s something I’ll set up in the near future. Thank you so much for the support.
I watched this video once, and I have been looking for it for months 😅. You did an awesome job with the partition creation. I wanna re-set up my TrueNas server after crashing it.
Thanks for keeping us updated with the direction of TrueNAS. I haven't done this yet, but I sure want to do things like this in the future. Wonderful video. Enjoyed all that you did. Thanks.
Absolutely awesome video!! Managed to set a 32gb partition out of a 500gb HDD for a TrueNas Scale install without a hitch and use the remaining space for a zfs pool following your instructions. Thank you for the video and keep up doing these useful videos!
Awesome video. I loved the walkthrough for getting our boot SSD to still be able to be used as some storage as my boot SSD is a 256GB SSD. I gave it a 32GB boot pool and a 16GB swap leaving me ~200 GB of SSD storage space to house my apps, while all of my metadata and other files can go on my data pool HDD's.
Good video! Thx. Just to mention, truenas doesnt generally allow a 1-disk setup. Not core not scale. By design and philosophy. So i dont expect them to change that one. Openmediavault does.
Hey could you make a truenas scale tutorial like how to setup apps I'm a complete noob in truenas and I don't understand what the storage pools are and idk how to make jellyfin see my movies and photos
You shall stop the fan with something (eg. a screwdriver) before blowing the dust! It could fuck up the fan if you let it freely turn (in the wrong direction).
We need more videos where we can repurpose old Core2Duo, Core2Quad, and Xeon E and X 4 core processors with 4GB to 8GB of RAM as just NAS file servers that can hot plug and play the drives on the system. Simple NAS OS for the novice that just wants to put a drive in and share it out without having to learn Linux or go through all sorts of file permissions and still be somewhat secure from internet. Machines that were beasts with Windows XP, but eh with Windows 7 sort of thing.
Your channel is going to be huge, just have to keep making content until the youtube algo trips. I think it may have begun as you were on my suggested list. Keep up the great content. Would you consider making a video looking at how to edit and store video for content makers. Perhaps a system that can edit , stream and store content and even a follow up video where you have an edit rig and a second streaming and back up render rig.
Finally got this working. First tried the core version, but that didn't work. Couldn't find the install script. Loaded scale on a 500G M2 drive (cost only $59 and to save my bays for data drives). Took a bit to figure out how much of the name to use (nmve0n) and it would add the p5. Then I couldn't access the share...just took me to the portal. Used "net z: \\computer_name\share_name /PERSISTENT:YES" from the command line. Entered UN and PW and it created a mapped drive Z. Moving files around so I will have two 2TB disks to use, but I'll have to replace them as unfortunately they are green and not red. Been a long weekend...
I'm very new to using linux and NAS OS's. I've used OMV but after upgrading I want to use TruNAS scale. I'd like to claim back the non utilised SSD of what will be my boot drive as you shown here. Could I use this reclaimed space to install apps such as Plex and it's metadata? This would leave my HDD's as purely storage.
My Man! This is Awesome! I watched the New video than this one, I created the install and the Pool WITH Swap on a 240gig SSD! Now to add a 8TB 3.5" for BATOCERA & a 4TB 3.5" for File Server! Maybe a Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.x AMD A8 20 gig of Ram
A good starting point for this machine would have been 3 drives. No more than 250 GB for the OS and then two larger drives for a mirror set for the pool. Most home systems don't need the speed of a strip set for backups, maybe if several people are streaming media at the same time.
For days and weeks at last I found this video. I had trouble optimizing the big free storage space of the boot drive. 512GB while only 16GB is used as a boot drive? Hell no not gonna waste the free space.
How can you add a second M2 SSD disk during the install? I want to create a mirror of the smaller M2 NvME ssd ? You have edited the install script but what about if I have two disks in mirror for the TrueNAS Scale OS
Just did this again with a Gigabyte BM450M DS3H V1. 16Gib DDR4 & 480 GiB NvMe onBoard. This installed Flawlessly & Storage Pool Availible 100% Now I Need to lear how to install Linux Mint 20 and have both the ability to Remote Login as well as have a VNC Console on the VM itself. I couldn't figure out the noVNC application setup Properly. Time to give it another go
I just setup truenas and am in the middle of moving over data from my QNAP. After that's done, you think I can redo the boot drive? I have a 512 nvme would be nice to split it up.
@@RaidOwl It is about to get real clean. Couldn't find a case with a bunch of drive bays, and this one has 10. So I just picked up some parts and a new case. Building a NAS server in the old case and will put my PC in the new case. Just have to convince myself to shut this one off and get started!
I have an old pc I've been wanting to turn into a nas for a while now also. I am still debating, however, whether to install truenas scale or just an Ubuntu server with plex and a samba share. Thanks for posting the video.
I’d strongly recommend trying out Scale then as you can deploy Plex fairly easily as an app and the NAS functionality of TrueNAS is just so nice to use. You can go with TrueNAS Core if you want something more reliable as you can easily set up a Plex jail in there. Both options would work for you.
It would appear that these methods don't work anymore. Tried this and various other guides and things like fdisk, sgdisk, etc did not come up as a shell command.
This NAS was for a friend of mine so it wasn’t staying at my house. I didn’t want to lock out the system my assigning a static ip that’s not in his subnet. We set one when I brought it to his place, though.
@@RaidOwl Still trying both ways of setting up an ip... for some weird reason if you go to the Network->Interfaces tab (on the middle screen) and press the up down arrow before your interface name (for example enps01) it will lead you to the Edit interface at the right windows. There you untick dhcp and you have to put the desired ip under aliases ???????? option by pressing add and then save. You have to test (gives you 60 secs) in order to launch a new tab and check the new ip log in again and press save. Then it gets permanent. Really???? That is what they came up with? On the other hand from cli by pressing 1 shows you network interface > there either pressing 1 or ens504(interface's name) or whatever cant make it to work. Do you know what you have to enter there or by which way needs to be entered? PS Don t do an apt update from cli . Next restart and nothing plays.
5:09 saying that cpu ain't great. I'm still rocking a i5-3470 running Win 8.1 ENT with Hyper V got 4 ubuntu server vms and a windows 10 vm. Plus plex running on the bear metal. That CPU in this video would probably be an upgrade hahaha. Oh any my Turenas box is running a whopping AMD Turion II Neo (1.5 Ghz) bet not many people have even heard of this AMD cpu.
I meant in terms of budget cpu options today where you can get 6 cores and 12 threads for fairly cheap. I never said the cpu was bad but I still wouldn’t call it “great”. Glad to hear you’re getting some use use out of older hardware.
would like to see how the scale out function pans out, does sit mean i can just add multiple new computer with more drives and they can be adopted into the platform
The name “Scale” is kind of misleading as it doesn’t really have anything to do with scaling out. However, ZFS and TrueNAS itself are pretty good at expanding out your setup. You can easily add more drives to a ZFS pool within TrueNAS. As for multiple computers: TrueNAS has built in backup functionality to backup your entire system, as for mirrored devices acting as a failover…I’m not sure. Great question.
@@RaidOwl I saw that it has something to do with true as command, otherwise you have some finicky way of getting it done with script. So far haven't seen anyone get it done. What of the computer ru s out of ways to add more storage, they advertise that with glusterfs built in, you should just add more computer and have a complete single system with expanded storage.
You comment on this config along the lines of "yeah, it's ok". But isn't a 4th generation i5 machine with 16 GB RAM actually vastly overpowered for a NAS? I mean purpose-built hardware NAS-s have much, much weaker config, some
Yeah depending on your NAS config an i5 with 16gb can certainly be overkill. However, with TrueNAS Scale designed to also be a hyper visor for visualization and services, you may run out of resources. Of course it all depends on how you use it. Also, TrueNAS runs ZFS which is more resource-heavy than other file systems. I don’t believe there is a low power mode but I could be wrong.
@2:28 Um, have you ever heard of this thing called a VACUUM? I've never understood why people just blow dust around instead of actually collecting it. Like, if your dog shit on the floor, would you just pick up the shit and throw it in the air? Or would you pick it up and put it in a container? Ooof, people scare me sometimes. Lol.
@@RaidOwl I’ve been doing it for decades. It works BETTER than blowing the dust further into the slots and under surface components. Why do you think it wouldn’t work? Try it and see if you’ll ever blow the dust again.
@@RaidOwl They even sell these things called “DataVac” for vacuuming servers and such. It’s what professionals do. But you’re not a professional server guy, so that’s probably where the problem is.
You know its bad when the dust comes out in chunks. I have some windows xp systems that are cleaner then that beast. Side note it at least has a nice power supply.
Are you serious about your "youtube profits"? ... 3:45 ... If so, that is quite shocking. But, it might be because you are still small and just growing slowly. That'd be my guess.
60% through this video and he has not shown the end user a GUI for their NAS, even though it is installed.!!! Then again, he has not removed the "weather icon" from the taskbar...
Wrong and Failed! The first thing I learned when I was taking Computer Repair Classes, back in 1995 was "before blowing off any dusty Computer" unplug all wires from any fan from motherboard. And the best position to blow off the dust from a computer is facing the motherboard, not SIDEWAYS like you did, air and dust will go all ways but not from facing the motherboard.
I keep fogetting this isn't some 250 000+ sub channel, keep up the amazing production value!!
Please for the love of god set up a Patreon. I would happily contribute to see your channel grow.
I’ve see quite a few channels with Patreon but never considered it myself. I think it’s something I’ll set up in the near future. Thank you so much for the support.
I watched this video once, and I have been looking for it for months 😅. You did an awesome job with the partition creation. I wanna re-set up my TrueNas server after crashing it.
Holy hell, I spent hours looking for how to do this. Thank you for walking through this so thoroughly.
Thanks for keeping us updated with the direction of TrueNAS. I haven't done this yet, but I sure want to do things like this in the future. Wonderful video. Enjoyed all that you did. Thanks.
Absolutely awesome video!! Managed to set a 32gb partition out of a 500gb HDD for a TrueNas Scale install without a hitch and use the remaining space for a zfs pool following your instructions. Thank you for the video and keep up doing these useful videos!
You had me at 10 machines laying around!! Nice job!
thanks for this i'm running TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02-RC.1-2 and this helped me out
Awesome, glad I could help!
Awesome video. I loved the walkthrough for getting our boot SSD to still be able to be used as some storage as my boot SSD is a 256GB SSD. I gave it a 32GB boot pool and a 16GB swap leaving me ~200 GB of SSD storage space to house my apps, while all of my metadata and other files can go on my data pool HDD's.
We also have the exact same datavac, mine is just in white.
Found It!
I went diggin thru my Playlists!
This Video is a Lifesaver!
Thanks so much! Now I can play and test TrueNAS on my small single disk test PC and it's already awesome.
The best cable management ever brought me here ...
Good video! Thx. Just to mention, truenas doesnt generally allow a 1-disk setup. Not core not scale. By design and philosophy. So i dont expect them to change that one. Openmediavault does.
Lol yeah it gives you a warning because 1 disk is basically just a 1-disk-stripe...which is silly
Hey could you make a truenas scale tutorial like how to setup apps I'm a complete noob in truenas and I don't understand what the storage pools are and idk how to make jellyfin see my movies and photos
Hahaha I caught myself holding my breath when u started cleaning that thing!
I was doing the same when editing this video haha
You shall stop the fan with something (eg. a screwdriver) before blowing the dust! It could fuck up the fan if you let it freely turn (in the wrong direction).
Smart
Thanks owl!
Raid owl : "hmmm password.....bla bla bla come hack me!!"
Nice video
We need more videos where we can repurpose old Core2Duo, Core2Quad, and Xeon E and X 4 core processors with 4GB to 8GB of RAM as just NAS file servers that can hot plug and play the drives on the system. Simple NAS OS for the novice that just wants to put a drive in and share it out without having to learn Linux or go through all sorts of file permissions and still be somewhat secure from internet. Machines that were beasts with Windows XP, but eh with Windows 7 sort of thing.
Great video and keep up the good work
Very easy to understand. Thank you
Your channel is going to be huge, just have to keep making content until the youtube algo trips.
I think it may have begun as you were on my suggested list.
Keep up the great content.
Would you consider making a video looking at how to edit and store video for content makers.
Perhaps a system that can edit , stream and store content and even a follow up video where you have an edit rig and a second streaming and back up render rig.
Good idea. I’ll add it to my list for sure.
Finally got this working. First tried the core version, but that didn't work. Couldn't find the install script. Loaded scale on a 500G M2 drive (cost only $59 and to save my bays for data drives). Took a bit to figure out how much of the name to use (nmve0n) and it would add the p5. Then I couldn't access the share...just took me to the portal. Used "net z: \\computer_name\share_name /PERSISTENT:YES" from the command line. Entered UN and PW and it created a mapped drive Z. Moving files around so I will have two 2TB disks to use, but I'll have to replace them as unfortunately they are green and not red. Been a long weekend...
I'm very new to using linux and NAS OS's. I've used OMV but after upgrading I want to use TruNAS scale. I'd like to claim back the non utilised SSD of what will be my boot drive as you shown here. Could I use this reclaimed space to install apps such as Plex and it's metadata? This would leave my HDD's as purely storage.
Yessir
My Man! This is Awesome! I watched the New video than this one, I created the install and the Pool WITH Swap on a 240gig SSD!
Now to add a 8TB 3.5" for BATOCERA & a 4TB 3.5" for File Server!
Maybe a Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.x
AMD A8 20 gig of Ram
Your content is great pal keep up the good work !!! Do you use unraid ??
Thanks! I have never used Unraid before but I’ve heard it’s come a long way in the last few years.
do you think a 4 cores 4 threads cpu its enough for a truenas with plex and a pfsense vm on it ?
A good starting point for this machine would have been 3 drives. No more than 250 GB for the OS and then two larger drives for a mirror set for the pool. Most home systems don't need the speed of a strip set for backups, maybe if several people are streaming media at the same time.
Yeah he recently upgraded to 2x 4TB drives. This is just we had on hand at the time.
"$3.09 more than the total I've ever made off this TH-cam Channel" lol🤣 Love it! Thanks for the great video!
I'm late to the party but this a very well done video
Thank you for the great video. Yes can you do more on TruNAS Scale. Do you know anything about PXE setup?
Yeah please @Raid Owl, start new vid on PXE.
For days and weeks at last I found this video. I had trouble optimizing the big free storage space of the boot drive. 512GB while only 16GB is used as a boot drive? Hell no not gonna waste the free space.
How can you add a second M2 SSD disk during the install? I want to create a mirror of the smaller M2 NvME ssd ? You have edited the install script but what about if I have two disks in mirror for the TrueNAS Scale OS
Just did this again with a Gigabyte BM450M DS3H V1. 16Gib DDR4 & 480 GiB NvMe onBoard.
This installed Flawlessly & Storage Pool Availible 100%
Now I Need to lear how to install Linux Mint 20 and have both the ability to Remote Login as well as have a VNC Console on the VM itself. I couldn't figure out the noVNC application setup Properly. Time to give it another go
Great video, thanks.
I just setup truenas and am in the middle of moving over data from my QNAP. After that's done, you think I can redo the boot drive? I have a 512 nvme would be nice to split it up.
Good idea but for all the hard drive must be new. I think tour data must be important right? :)
Yeah new drives are always preferred but it’s not always in the budget for some people.
has the ACL bug been fixed in recent releases?
Very nice video about how take advance of the big ssd when is installed the TrueNAS scale OS. Do you think this is possible to do in TrueNAS core?
I believe the installer for both is the same so I assume it’ll work. That may be something I have to check out.
I'm currently running Truenas on 16G usb no issues.. But planning to move to SSD per this video.
I'm wondering why 32gb boot partition is chosen?
I just subscribed, I think I'll learn a lot from you! I just scored an hp elitedesk SFF with a 4770 to make me a little server with :)
I work in a IT repair shop and this amount of dust is baby mode, when you blow that nicotine greasy, cobweb shit then it's the real deal.
🤢🤢🤢
When attempting to use the “VI” command, I get a bunch of purple lines among the left side of screen.
I wish my PC was that clean! I have compressed air available, but I never shut my PC off... maybe you shamed me into cleaning mine this weekend.
Haha good luck!
@@RaidOwl It is about to get real clean. Couldn't find a case with a bunch of drive bays, and this one has 10. So I just picked up some parts and a new case. Building a NAS server in the old case and will put my PC in the new case. Just have to convince myself to shut this one off and get started!
I have an old pc I've been wanting to turn into a nas for a while now also. I am still debating, however, whether to install truenas scale or just an Ubuntu server with plex and a samba share. Thanks for posting the video.
I’d strongly recommend trying out Scale then as you can deploy Plex fairly easily as an app and the NAS functionality of TrueNAS is just so nice to use.
You can go with TrueNAS Core if you want something more reliable as you can easily set up a Plex jail in there. Both options would work for you.
It would appear that these methods don't work anymore. Tried this and various other guides and things like fdisk, sgdisk, etc did not come up as a shell command.
install using root as the web gui acc. admin account does not work for the shell commands
Are you able to perform the same partition edit for TrueNas Core or does it provide accessiblity to the unused memory on the boot SSD?
i just suscribe because that truenas scale video, im interesting for and i apreciate that great video
How do you do it was an NVME? it doesn't say SDA1 or etc?
use lsblk command in the shell to list the name of the drive. this helped me.
A suggestion, don’t spin the fan with an air blower. You can blow up the motherboard.
i like your video , great content , thank you
dude there were so many errors popping when i install it ....can it be the ram that i use only 4 gb ram
I would like to see how apps can access data like Plex being able to see movies & shows
please share how to add domain name and ssl in nextcloud that is install in truenas scale
10.33 you should try set a static IP cause they made it very weird and odd to do it from cli and from gui just doesn t keep the ip for a reason
This NAS was for a friend of mine so it wasn’t staying at my house. I didn’t want to lock out the system my assigning a static ip that’s not in his subnet. We set one when I brought it to his place, though.
@@RaidOwl Still trying both ways of setting up an ip... for some weird reason if you go to the Network->Interfaces tab (on the middle screen) and press the up down arrow before your interface name (for example enps01) it will lead you to the Edit interface at the right windows. There you untick dhcp and you have to put the desired ip under aliases ???????? option by pressing add and then save. You have to test (gives you 60 secs) in order to launch a new tab and check the new ip log in again and press save. Then it gets permanent. Really???? That is what they came up with?
On the other hand from cli by pressing 1 shows you network interface > there either pressing 1 or ens504(interface's name) or whatever cant make it to work. Do you know what you have to enter there or by which way needs to be entered?
PS Don t do an apt update from cli . Next restart and nothing plays.
He was kid when he had a Z97 Motherboard??
Ohh Godddd,,,
how old is he now??
5:09 saying that cpu ain't great. I'm still rocking a i5-3470 running Win 8.1 ENT with Hyper V got 4 ubuntu server vms and a windows 10 vm. Plus plex running on the bear metal. That CPU in this video would probably be an upgrade hahaha. Oh any my Turenas box is running a whopping AMD Turion II Neo (1.5 Ghz) bet not many people have even heard of this AMD cpu.
I meant in terms of budget cpu options today where you can get 6 cores and 12 threads for fairly cheap. I never said the cpu was bad but I still wouldn’t call it “great”. Glad to hear you’re getting some use use out of older hardware.
Perfect 👍👍
Definitely wear a mask next time when blowing out the years of dust
Lol agreed…
would like to see how the scale out function pans out,
does sit mean i can just add multiple new computer with more drives and they can be adopted into the platform
The name “Scale” is kind of misleading as it doesn’t really have anything to do with scaling out. However, ZFS and TrueNAS itself are pretty good at expanding out your setup. You can easily add more drives to a ZFS pool within TrueNAS. As for multiple computers: TrueNAS has built in backup functionality to backup your entire system, as for mirrored devices acting as a failover…I’m not sure. Great question.
@@RaidOwl I saw that it has something to do with true as command, otherwise you have some finicky way of getting it done with script. So far haven't seen anyone get it done.
What of the computer ru s out of ways to add more storage, they advertise that with glusterfs built in, you should just add more computer and have a complete single system with expanded storage.
That processor is better than my main computer……… I’m rocking a 3770 and 32gb on my computer that I also use for unraid.
can you use external hdd on truenas?
Maybe put some LoFi chilled music in the Background :) i think this would improve the video a lot
But thanks for all the help! :)
I used to use music in my earlier vids but I didn’t feel like it added much and was a pain to edit. I may revisit it though.
@@RaidOwl I like it the way it is, but that's my preference. Great content, keep up the good work!
what is diffrence between truenas scal and core ?
Scale is Linux and Core is FreeBSD.
You comment on this config along the lines of "yeah, it's ok". But isn't a 4th generation i5 machine with 16 GB RAM actually vastly overpowered for a NAS? I mean purpose-built hardware NAS-s have much, much weaker config, some
Yeah depending on your NAS config an i5 with 16gb can certainly be overkill. However, with TrueNAS Scale designed to also be a hyper visor for visualization and services, you may run out of resources. Of course it all depends on how you use it. Also, TrueNAS runs ZFS which is more resource-heavy than other file systems. I don’t believe there is a low power mode but I could be wrong.
They were definitely paying with those coins to use the computer
I was shocked at how many the fit in there 😳
@@RaidOwl great videos man. keep it up
You have not seen our computers in Saudi which we clean regularly
@2:28 Um, have you ever heard of this thing called a VACUUM? I've never understood why people just blow dust around instead of actually collecting it. Like, if your dog shit on the floor, would you just pick up the shit and throw it in the air? Or would you pick it up and put it in a container? Ooof, people scare me sometimes. Lol.
Yeah man take a vacuum to a dusty pc and let me know how it goes. Also…I was outside…I think blowing dust out there is fine.
@@RaidOwl I’ve been doing it for decades. It works BETTER than blowing the dust further into the slots and under surface components. Why do you think it wouldn’t work? Try it and see if you’ll ever blow the dust again.
@@RaidOwl They even sell these things called “DataVac” for vacuuming servers and such. It’s what professionals do. But you’re not a professional server guy, so that’s probably where the problem is.
@@xNYCMarc “professional server guy”…yeah I’m def not that lmao
the pc that he has is mine
3.09 more money than youtube! lol
the sad truth lol
Does this also work on Truenas Core?
Setting up the NAS does but the boot drive trick doesn’t
@@RaidOwl thnx for the respons. What is newer? Truenas core or scale?
@@chinoricco6368 Scale is much newer, still in Beta I believe.
@@RaidOwl thnq for the respons! Oke i will check into that version aswell👍
You know its bad when the dust comes out in chunks. I have some windows xp systems that are cleaner then that beast. Side note it at least has a nice power supply.
Why wont this work anymore? 🤨
Global warming
Are you serious about your "youtube profits"? ... 3:45 ... If so, that is quite shocking. But, it might be because you are still small and just growing slowly. That'd be my guess.
Yeah for sure. I could turn on ads and make a few bucks but I’d rather my viewers not have to watch them lol.
60% through this video and he has not shown the end user a GUI for their NAS, even though it is installed.!!! Then again, he has not removed the "weather icon" from the taskbar...
I like weather 🤷🏻♂️
maybe wear a mask, while blowing it clean???
Let’s consider this a learning experience
Wrong and Failed! The first thing I learned when I was taking Computer Repair Classes, back in 1995 was "before blowing off any dusty Computer" unplug all wires from any fan from motherboard. And the best position to blow off the dust from a computer is facing the motherboard, not SIDEWAYS like you did, air and dust will go all ways but not from facing the motherboard.
I'll study harder next time