You might want to add a discussion about setting the BIOS to turn on the server after a power outage so the computer boots up after electrical outages. I also tweaked my power usage by using cpuinfo-freq or whatever it is called. I also tweaked some machines to spin down the hard drives. This is only done on machines that run backups once a day, so it is okay to do this.
I have all my servers and desktops to stay off after power outage. When we have outages, it may come back on for a minute and then go back off. Doing this multiple times. Not trying to corrupt anything, especially if the UPS is dead.
@@wojtek-33 I get it. Other parts of the country have poor electrical systems, and they lose power more often than I do. In my area, we lose power once a year. Having it power on after a power outage works because we have a reliable electrical system. When I set up a server for someone else, they might not even know how to power it up. That is my use case, and it works for me. Your use case might be much different. Adjust as needed. This is a choice each sys admin must make. When you have hundreds of servers to power back on, you want them to power on automatically.
@@wartlmeBest thing IMO is to get an IPKVM that can interact with the ATX power and reset button signals of your computer. At least that way, it allows for a remote start without needing to have it constantly boot up after getting power, which lengthens the life of the system.
This is honestly some really good timing, I have three PCs just gathering dust. Two found in an dumpster from a college apartment complex, and one that is a leftover gaming PC stripped down to just missing a GPU and boot drive. I had just finished making a mini VPN machine with my old raspberry Pi 4. I was getting really frustrated with other video tutorials already on TH-cam that only made it a plex server, when in reality I want it to do other stuff. Edit: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you visit college campuses and check their IT surplus, or also check nearby college housing dumpsters because computers, components, and peripherals. You wouldn’t believe how much IT equipment is thrown away.
Talk about nerding out.....I recently got a 15U server rack and am trying to figure out what kind of home server I want to build in it lol. Your channel started me down this rabbit hole for sure!
Some note about the Windows setup, Docker isn't the greatest with Windows bind mounts or generally NTFS compared to Windows natively, for storage heavy application (nzbget, torrent download and extraction) the speed is significantly slower. And sometime if you bind mount from a Windows directory to a mysql, postgres container, the app wouldn't run at it. For the latter, you can just bind mount your WSL home directory (which is stored as a .vhdx file on Windows) and problem go away. While for storage heavy apps like nzb, plex, it might make more sense to run it bare metal, also with Docker you can't access iGPU for transcoding. But if you do so that way, you lose ability to manage it from a terminal over SSH so you must use Remote Desktop or Rustdesk to manage it.
Agreed. Windows gets an awful lot of hate but when you get right down to it, when it comes to storage, storage spaces is crazy simple to use. All in a GUI with 30 years of your muscle memory making it intuitive to use. Don't get me wrong, I like and use Truenas on another box as my backup raid and it works great but it is so new to me everything I need to do on it becomes a learning experience.
Oh the diablotek PSU. Brings back memories of the early 200s, and buying budget parts online from part stores and suppliers, before Newegg and Amazon took it all over.
Man you been building a long time brotha, lol. I had just bought my own first computer around that time(early 2000s) . As I finally had my first job and I was a poor kid...
appreciate the video! It would be very helpful if you were able to provide links to some of the websites where the docs and software you talk about are located, and/or links to the other videos you've made that you mention in the video. Would make it much easier to get directly to the additional information and resources when necessary
This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago. After I accidentally fried my old QNAP NAS, I converted my old PC into a NAS. I currently have TrueNAS Scale installed on it. I still need to work on the power consumption as it currently draws around 45W which a bit much for my taste. The GTX 1060 is overkill and will probably be replaced by an Intel Arc A310 soon.
The thing I really like about truenas is that web interface. Let's you do all you need remotely. I used to set up my home servers in linux on xeon cpus (yes, I know this is linux too, smartypants). Every time I'd wanna tweak something, I'd have to plug in a riser into pciex1 port because that one was the only accessible, so that I could plug in a graphics card. Eventually, I would leave that riser usb cable hanging out of chasis for easy access :D Today, I forget where my nas is. Which is awesome. I'm using an 8i megaraid in TN software raid 10 on a crappy fanless 3150. And it's all great and stable.
came across this after setting up my true nas server lol almost perfect timing, may go with true nas again for a virtualization server but i am tempted to make it a proxmox server for that and keep storage and back up storage on true nas.
Just watching this video now and realize I'm late to the party but wanted to comment. "I've got the creativity of a stick." made me literally laugh out loud.
Which raid allows striping with an additional drive for redundancy ? I'm just looking into this , and am interested in the delivery performance with striping , but need The redundancy. Any suggestions you can offer would be welcome - Thanks !
@@chuckintexas RAID 4 offers data striping with a dedicated parity drive. It is rarely used these days, but UnRaid offers something similar with similar benefits and drawbacks. RAID 5 and RAID 6 offer striping with distributed parity. That's where the parity stripes share space with data stripes on each and every disk in the set. These are the most common forms of RAID in use today. RAID 10 offers redundancy by mirroring a striped array (without using parity). Benefitting speed at the cost of space, as the size of any RAID 10 array is double the size needed for data alone. Other forms of RAID, 50, 60, etc. exist, but are less commonly used. Recommend RAID 5 for smaller disks and smaller arrays where a reliable backup is accessible. RAID 6 for larger drives and arrays due to the length of time it takes to incorporate a new drive into the array after a drive failure. A reliable backup should be in place here as well.
this video just hits perfect, I've been using all sorts of systems (mainly Synology DSM and Proxmox with Docker VM), so it's nice to see such roundup from time to time, gotta take a deeper look into Docker setup within Windows, because despite all the blasphemy Windows remains the most advanced option when it comes to GUI and software/hardware support, I wanna ask though, is there some (third-party) WEB UI for managing Windows? I remember Windows Admin Center from Win Server, but it's rather barren imo
Truenas actually uses some strange form of Kubernetes. I don't use it. For some reason, the apps don't play nice with a reverse proxy. That could be a misconfiguration on my end, but I just find it easier to stand up a Docker host on a separate and dedicated VM.
Excellent presentation. Thank you. I have mostly been loading Proxmox on my old systems. I find that for me the biggest issue with "old hardware" is the wattage draw on a lot of it. Striping out anything not needed like video cards and try to stick with SSD can help. That said, a video on powertop with some real world testing would be amazing.
I both understand and agree with why you went with windows for this video as most regular users are familiar with windows. And this vid is great! Awesome tips and setup. But for some reason, Windows servers make me shutter a bit. Lol I am running Truenas Scale like in the second part of the video. Specifically as a learning experience. But being able to run a VM if Truenas presents difficulties is nice as well.
@RaidOwl Lol I had just edited to include that brotha. It's a great system even with some of the setup difficulties I have encountered. Still having issues connecting my local Ollama to my HA VM.
There is a potential server OS that will be awesome but (more than) a bit much for new home labbers: OpenWRT. Normally for routers, you can take a router with USB ports and get real creative. A long time Linux user comfortable with the command line will love it. You can have SMB or NFS for the file shares. You can set up a firewall if you want, or a VPN. The number one problem of an old PC as home server is that Intel style chips waste electricity like crazy. That's too bad as they are the nostalgic chip style as of now.
My most recent issue was *not* having enough chassis for my systems - thankfully, my sister picked up a non-functional HP Pavilion 500 from the Haswell era. I shoved an Intel DH67BL with an i7-2600 (yay ATX standards, even if the board is installed upside-down!), and I’m going to upgrade my Core 2 Duo Samba/Jellyfin/Plex server from one 3TB drive to 4x2TB SATA SSDs. I’m hoping it’ll only sip power, and I might eventually get an ARC card for transcoding!
I5 4 gen isn't last CPU, i convert net storage a i atom d525. 4 gen cpu is good cpu for normal home activities, can run windows without problem. On problem power draw, bit high.
you forgot to mention that the windows server will reset every day. at max, you can put it off 7 days. with a 3rd party app you can push it 90. but that is the limit
Thanks @RaidOwl for the step to advertise Tailscale in Powershell, how would I do that for a Roku (Jellyfin media server at location #1, laptop device at location #2, Roku device at location #2)?
Hey can you make a video where you can tell the server 1 to detect changes and send the files to second local/remote server and delete the files in server one. I would like to no such process as I have 2 servers where my main data like movie downloads, projests, videos and is stored on the fastest server and my second one is slow which is only to store data and both are not allowed to talk to each other and on different subnets but on same local network and also no talking to admin which is pfsense router I set up as a firewall
It's actually very safe. Tailscale is basically a wrapper for wireguard, which as of yet is one of (if not the) safest VPN sollutions out there, AND it's by far the fastest as well. Tailscale just makes the configuration of it all a breeze.
I've been using home computers since the late 70's. Mainframes a for a couple of years before that. Given, it's been awhile since I played around with virtual machines, WANs. and such (we probably both had more hair) but I remember the reason I gave up on it was because of overhead and other hits on the CPU/GPU everything was slower than I could stand. I'd been using Linux long enough that after years of frustration with it the first version where everything worked was 7.10, the next version broke things again and I gave up on it. I tried Boot Camp - alright - and various version of Parallels - meh. All the above makes me want to ask, how bad is the overhead hit doing all of this with computers from the last 5-10 years? Not what's the minimum hardware requirements but what do you need to have a really good experience with everything? My only home networking is using Emby server. Years ago I switched to Emby because Plex wasn't tagging as many titles, or tagging then correctly, as Emby was.
Only old pcs i have are thrift store pcs on without ram or hdd from 2012ish one thats a 2010ish xp emachine another from the late 90s that wont take input
Its always nice to watch your videos, i always get new knowledge. And i have some questions about building a NAS, i have 0 knowledge, buying a ready made NAS like ASUSTOR/Synology is too expensive for me. I watched some videos but still have some questions in mind. I hope someone can answer. 1. Can Home Server / NAS be accessed from outside? i mean i travel alot 2. Is it possible to make each account have their own folder and can only access to their own files? 3. My MiniPC only have 1x M.2 Slot and 1x SataIII Slot. So i plan to use USB3.2 Flashdrive as boot and M.2 as main storage, is there a way to automaticly mirror/backup M.2 to sata HDD?
Hi, fantastic video, I learnt a lot from it. I am an absolute beginner, so my knowledge is tiny. Your video did raise a question for me, 15mins and 33 secs in, you talk about SMB selection, where you mention this works for Mac. My real world scenario is this, I have an external USB drive with a lot of media files that I ripped from my dvds using my old Mac. My question is this, if I build a NAS with say 2 SATA drives, set it all up etc, and then remove the external drive and install that, will TRUEnas be able to read the drive, making all my media files available, or will TRUEnas not be able to read it as it was setup and formated using a MAC? This will save me hours of transferring my media off the old drive, then on to my new NAS using a cloud service.
Hi there! To answer your question: No, your drive would have to be reformatted to build a pool in TrueNAS. Your best bet would be to get new drives for TrueNAS then transfer them over or move the files to a temporary location and put the hard drive into the new build.
Hi, thanks for the reply, I figured rmthat was the case. So, just to be sure, 1) setup new TRUEnas system, new drives, 2)use old Mac to access new NAS on network, 3) transfer media files to new NAS from old external drive, 4) wipe old external drive, and add to new NAS pool.
@@hottodropship9243 Yep, that should work. Just make sure you go with TrueNAS Scale as they now let you expand a VDEV (storage pool) with individual drives.
I am learning but first question, Can I still run it as a windows gaming unit while it runs the servers? I have not old equipment. I would like to have all the server functions as well as a friend have a terminal to game when coming over.
Which raid allows striping with an additional drive for redundancy ? I'm just looking into this , and am interested in the delivery performance with striping , but need The redundancy. Any suggestions you can offer would be welcome - Thanks !
I hate these new PC cases, I need bays in front like the vintage ones had for raid drives the new ones dont have crap anymore but fans. Anyone know good place for old NEW cases with multi bays in front?
I find TrueNAS an odd choice. Top complex for just a share. VM and docked in it is meh. Probably would have chosen Proxmox and add what you need on top. Some simple lxc to create shares and VM support is way better.
I literally just offered a Aoostar WTR PRO which should arrive in a few weeks. I fully intend to use windows and set it up as a NAS, hoping to get Plex and also Google Photo alternative so this is ideal timing. Anyone know of any good Google Photo alternatives and also if there's any such thing as a free remote management dashboard to be able to monitor cpu temps, disk space etc (like Pulseway). Thanks
6:04 cmon hyperv is easier for someone who needs this guide quick rate is literally all a person like that would want and then docker for microservices
@@RaidOwl Using Home Edition is always a sad sight to see, sorry to hear dude. I think using Hyper-V that's already built in is always a better option but that's just be. I enjoy your uploads, keep up the good work.
Oh hell nah yall ain't got no morals 😂 Well at least he honest omg. As a full time Linux/Mac and part time windows user . I guess that means I have some morals 😂
@@CPPRODUCTIONS1001I thought Taiwan 🇹🇼 wants nothing to do with China 🇨🇳? Well, the China that has persisted at least. I think they are happy to go forward as a independent country, no?
IMO, nobody should be using Windows 10 for this. Win 10 goes out of support in October 2025. Yes, it will continue to run, but at risk of joining a botnet within a couple years. Also.... Win 10 / 11 Pro supports Hyper-V. Probably not as portable as VirtualBox, but more integrated.
But really, cool content. I like that creators (like you, techno tim, etc.) are lowering the barrier for entry to homelabbing by giving simple instructions and budget friendly options. Another banger Bert, thanks.
And exactly HOW am I supposed to use this when my ISP wants $600 per month MINIMUM and wants me to call it a "Business Plan" or else they'll cut off my Internet altogether????
Some misinformation in this video. Clearly that box is black, not white. Also, RAID 1 does or can have some speed benefits on reads, both throughput and latency.
"We're on Windows, we have no morals". Most excellent and correct.
You might want to add a discussion about setting the BIOS to turn on the server after a power outage so the computer boots up after electrical outages. I also tweaked my power usage by using cpuinfo-freq or whatever it is called. I also tweaked some machines to spin down the hard drives. This is only done on machines that run backups once a day, so it is okay to do this.
Good call
You just did...
I have all my servers and desktops to stay off after power outage. When we have outages, it may come back on for a minute and then go back off. Doing this multiple times. Not trying to corrupt anything, especially if the UPS is dead.
@@wojtek-33 I get it. Other parts of the country have poor electrical systems, and they lose power more often than I do. In my area, we lose power once a year. Having it power on after a power outage works because we have a reliable electrical system. When I set up a server for someone else, they might not even know how to power it up. That is my use case, and it works for me. Your use case might be much different. Adjust as needed. This is a choice each sys admin must make. When you have hundreds of servers to power back on, you want them to power on automatically.
@@wartlmeBest thing IMO is to get an IPKVM that can interact with the ATX power and reset button signals of your computer. At least that way, it allows for a remote start without needing to have it constantly boot up after getting power, which lengthens the life of the system.
This is honestly some really good timing, I have three PCs just gathering dust. Two found in an dumpster from a college apartment complex, and one that is a leftover gaming PC stripped down to just missing a GPU and boot drive.
I had just finished making a mini VPN machine with my old raspberry Pi 4.
I was getting really frustrated with other video tutorials already on TH-cam that only made it a plex server, when in reality I want it to do other stuff.
Edit: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you visit college campuses and check their IT surplus, or also check nearby college housing dumpsters because computers, components, and peripherals. You wouldn’t believe how much IT equipment is thrown away.
Can you tell location??? I'll go shopping...
@@subhrajitkarmakar6499 bro in india, it is difficult. i have tried in my university
Thanks for the no-bs, no fluff, basic setup. These are the kind of install videos I like.
This is the video that has finally made me set up the server that I've been planning for a while.
Talk about nerding out.....I recently got a 15U server rack and am trying to figure out what kind of home server I want to build in it lol. Your channel started me down this rabbit hole for sure!
Thank you Brett. It's great that you've covered Windows shares. Keep safe and well.
Brett another Banger keep it up buddy cant wait to see your holiday content
You’re a hoot, my man! Thank you for the simple to follow guide.
I see what you did there 😂
hardware haven would be proud.
I am.
@@HardwareHaven YOWWW
So helpful! I recently bought a computer to convert into a Minecraft server. I think I now have some other thing to try now
Hell yeah my current PC has an Intel 2600K and is still gaming strong. Can’t wait to squeeze another 13 years out of it when it becomes a server lol
Gotta look at the power costs over 13 years vs buying some lower power setup. Sometimes the new machine pays for itself quickly in electricity costs.
have the same proc but intels wesite sais no virtualization feature, is it that bad ??
@ pretty sure the 2600k has virtualization, at least on Z68
I dig this vid! Have a tower with an I5. Just need the storage. Thanks for your efforts and the vid!
I have learned so much today. Thanks.
Excellent presentation, all of the options clearly explained.
Some note about the Windows setup, Docker isn't the greatest with Windows bind mounts or generally NTFS compared to Windows natively, for storage heavy application (nzbget, torrent download and extraction) the speed is significantly slower. And sometime if you bind mount from a Windows directory to a mysql, postgres container, the app wouldn't run at it. For the latter, you can just bind mount your WSL home directory (which is stored as a .vhdx file on Windows) and problem go away. While for storage heavy apps like nzb, plex, it might make more sense to run it bare metal, also with Docker you can't access iGPU for transcoding. But if you do so that way, you lose ability to manage it from a terminal over SSH so you must use Remote Desktop or Rustdesk to manage it.
Been using the same CPU in my unraid box for about 4 years, honestly never seen any need to upgrade it yet and it literally sips power.
Finally someone showing a server on windows! Thank you!! ❤
Agreed. Windows gets an awful lot of hate but when you get right down to it, when it comes to storage, storage spaces is crazy simple to use. All in a GUI with 30 years of your muscle memory making it intuitive to use.
Don't get me wrong, I like and use Truenas on another box as my backup raid and it works great but it is so new to me everything I need to do on it becomes a learning experience.
Oh the diablotek PSU. Brings back memories of the early 200s, and buying budget parts online from part stores and suppliers, before Newegg and Amazon took it all over.
Man you been building a long time brotha, lol. I had just bought my own first computer around that time(early 2000s) . As I finally had my first job and I was a poor kid...
Was that back in New Tristram or Old Tristram. Can't remember which was built by 200.
biblically accurate pc
appreciate the video! It would be very helpful if you were able to provide links to some of the websites where the docs and software you talk about are located, and/or links to the other videos you've made that you mention in the video. Would make it much easier to get directly to the additional information and resources when necessary
Great video mate, I used the similar one you made couple years back to get me started
This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago. After I accidentally fried my old QNAP NAS, I converted my old PC into a NAS. I currently have TrueNAS Scale installed on it. I still need to work on the power consumption as it currently draws around 45W which a bit much for my taste. The GTX 1060 is overkill and will probably be replaced by an Intel Arc A310 soon.
Its scary that this is exactly how I was planning on spending my morning.
Nothing scary, its just 5G neurolink and AI generation, due to quantum, you get that real-real...
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Thanks Brett for a very informative video.
This brings back memories of when i used virtualbox on my pc and then moved to physical hypervisors.
The thing I really like about truenas is that web interface. Let's you do all you need remotely. I used to set up my home servers in linux on xeon cpus (yes, I know this is linux too, smartypants). Every time I'd wanna tweak something, I'd have to plug in a riser into pciex1 port because that one was the only accessible, so that I could plug in a graphics card. Eventually, I would leave that riser usb cable hanging out of chasis for easy access :D
Today, I forget where my nas is. Which is awesome. I'm using an 8i megaraid in TN software raid 10 on a crappy fanless 3150. And it's all great and stable.
came across this after setting up my true nas server lol almost perfect timing, may go with true nas again for a virtualization server but i am tempted to make it a proxmox server for that and keep storage and back up storage on true nas.
Thank you very much. It was really really helpful video. I needed this video.
Just watching this video now and realize I'm late to the party but wanted to comment. "I've got the creativity of a stick." made me literally laugh out loud.
cool video !!
I have no idea what you just said, but I really enjoyed your content and humor!!!
Nice video as always Mr. Owl!
Huge! Thank you!
RAID 1 is actually faster than a single drive in reads because both drives can be read at once, assembling the requested data up to twice as fast.
Run this test then report back. You won’t get double speed.
Which raid allows striping with an additional drive for redundancy ? I'm just looking into this , and am interested in the delivery performance with striping , but need The redundancy.
Any suggestions you can offer would be welcome -
Thanks !
@@chuckintexas RAID 4 offers data striping with a dedicated parity drive. It is rarely used these days, but UnRaid offers something similar with similar benefits and drawbacks.
RAID 5 and RAID 6 offer striping with distributed parity. That's where the parity stripes share space with data stripes on each and every disk in the set. These are the most common forms of RAID in use today.
RAID 10 offers redundancy by mirroring a striped array (without using parity). Benefitting speed at the cost of space, as the size of any RAID 10 array is double the size needed for data alone.
Other forms of RAID, 50, 60, etc. exist, but are less commonly used.
Recommend RAID 5 for smaller disks and smaller arrays where a reliable backup is accessible. RAID 6 for larger drives and arrays due to the length of time it takes to incorporate a new drive into the array after a drive failure. A reliable backup should be in place here as well.
@@chuckintexas you'd want to pick RaidZ (for a raid 5 like array), RaidZ2 (like Raid 6), RaidZ3 (same as RaidZ and RaidZ2 but with 3 parity disks)
That's exactly what I've done with my old PC and it's been flawless, great job! Although, I'd go with wg-easy for the VPN
this video just hits perfect,
I've been using all sorts of systems (mainly Synology DSM and Proxmox with Docker VM), so it's nice to see such roundup from time to time,
gotta take a deeper look into Docker setup within Windows, because despite all the blasphemy Windows remains the most advanced option when it comes to GUI and software/hardware support,
I wanna ask though, is there some (third-party) WEB UI for managing Windows? I remember Windows Admin Center from Win Server, but it's rather barren imo
Truenas actually uses some strange form of Kubernetes. I don't use it. For some reason, the apps don't play nice with a reverse proxy. That could be a misconfiguration on my end, but I just find it easier to stand up a Docker host on a separate and dedicated VM.
the only confusing part is the tail scale part. where and when did we setup ProxMox for the true nas version?
Excellent presentation. Thank you. I have mostly been loading Proxmox on my old systems. I find that for me the biggest issue with "old hardware" is the wattage draw on a lot of it. Striping out anything not needed like video cards and try to stick with SSD can help. That said, a video on powertop with some real world testing would be amazing.
Thank you.
I both understand and agree with why you went with windows for this video as most regular users are familiar with windows. And this vid is great! Awesome tips and setup. But for some reason, Windows servers make me shutter a bit. Lol I am running Truenas Scale like in the second part of the video. Specifically as a learning experience. But being able to run a VM if Truenas presents difficulties is nice as well.
Lol good thing I used TrueNAS too
@RaidOwl Lol I had just edited to include that brotha. It's a great system even with some of the setup difficulties I have encountered. Still having issues connecting my local Ollama to my HA VM.
There is a potential server OS that will be awesome but (more than) a bit much for new home labbers: OpenWRT. Normally for routers, you can take a router with USB ports and get real creative. A long time Linux user comfortable with the command line will love it. You can have SMB or NFS for the file shares. You can set up a firewall if you want, or a VPN. The number one problem of an old PC as home server is that Intel style chips waste electricity like crazy. That's too bad as they are the nostalgic chip style as of now.
My most recent issue was *not* having enough chassis for my systems - thankfully, my sister picked up a non-functional HP Pavilion 500 from the Haswell era. I shoved an Intel DH67BL with an i7-2600 (yay ATX standards, even if the board is installed upside-down!), and I’m going to upgrade my Core 2 Duo Samba/Jellyfin/Plex server from one 3TB drive to 4x2TB SATA SSDs. I’m hoping it’ll only sip power, and I might eventually get an ARC card for transcoding!
Edit - retiring the C2D for the 2600 :)
Using the new m4 mac mini a home server for running home assistant plex bitwarden etc
I5 4 gen isn't last CPU, i convert net storage a i atom d525. 4 gen cpu is good cpu for normal home activities, can run windows without problem. On problem power draw, bit high.
you forgot to mention that the windows server will reset every day. at max, you can put it off 7 days. with a 3rd party app you can push it 90. but that is the limit
Thanks @RaidOwl for the step to advertise Tailscale in Powershell, how would I do that for a Roku (Jellyfin media server at location #1, laptop device at location #2, Roku device at location #2)?
I want the option every time to make my own cloud on my own server and not use someone else's internet server
Hey can you make a video where you can tell the server 1 to detect changes and send the files to second local/remote server and delete the files in server one.
I would like to no such process as I have 2 servers where my main data like movie downloads, projests, videos and is stored on the fastest server and my second one is slow which is only to store data and both are not allowed to talk to each other and on different subnets but on same local network and also no talking to admin which is pfsense router I set up as a firewall
The whole VPN idea scares me to bits. There's no way I am going to expose my home network to the Internet. Awesome tutorial otherwise!
It's actually very safe. Tailscale is basically a wrapper for wireguard, which as of yet is one of (if not the) safest VPN sollutions out there, AND it's by far the fastest as well. Tailscale just makes the configuration of it all a breeze.
I've been using home computers since the late 70's. Mainframes a for a couple of years before that. Given, it's been awhile since I played around with virtual machines, WANs. and such (we probably both had more hair) but I remember the reason I gave up on it was because of overhead and other hits on the CPU/GPU everything was slower than I could stand. I'd been using Linux long enough that after years of frustration with it the first version where everything worked was 7.10, the next version broke things again and I gave up on it. I tried Boot Camp - alright - and various version of Parallels - meh.
All the above makes me want to ask, how bad is the overhead hit doing all of this with computers from the last 5-10 years? Not what's the minimum hardware requirements but what do you need to have a really good experience with everything? My only home networking is using Emby server. Years ago I switched to Emby because Plex wasn't tagging as many titles, or tagging then correctly, as Emby was.
Another downside of VMs in TrueNAS is it takes your graphics card for itself. If you want to do GPU passthrough, you need another graphics card.
Great video. Thanks for showing the Windows piece too.
I'm user dockers and my friends have been properly informed
No, your DDDR2! And great info!
why dont we use ubuntu server instead of proxmox or truens
Only old pcs i have are thrift store pcs on without ram or hdd from 2012ish one thats a 2010ish xp emachine another from the late 90s that wont take input
Its always nice to watch your videos, i always get new knowledge. And i have some questions about building a NAS, i have 0 knowledge, buying a ready made NAS like ASUSTOR/Synology is too expensive for me. I watched some videos but still have some questions in mind. I hope someone can answer.
1. Can Home Server / NAS be accessed from outside? i mean i travel alot
2. Is it possible to make each account have their own folder and can only access to their own files?
3. My MiniPC only have 1x M.2 Slot and 1x SataIII Slot. So i plan to use USB3.2 Flashdrive as boot and M.2 as main storage, is there a way to automaticly mirror/backup M.2 to sata HDD?
Hi, fantastic video, I learnt a lot from it. I am an absolute beginner, so my knowledge is tiny. Your video did raise a question for me, 15mins and 33 secs in, you talk about SMB selection, where you mention this works for Mac. My real world scenario is this, I have an external USB drive with a lot of media files that I ripped from my dvds using my old Mac. My question is this, if I build a NAS with say 2 SATA drives, set it all up etc, and then remove the external drive and install that, will TRUEnas be able to read the drive, making all my media files available, or will TRUEnas not be able to read it as it was setup and formated using a MAC? This will save me hours of transferring my media off the old drive, then on to my new NAS using a cloud service.
Hi there! To answer your question: No, your drive would have to be reformatted to build a pool in TrueNAS. Your best bet would be to get new drives for TrueNAS then transfer them over or move the files to a temporary location and put the hard drive into the new build.
Hi, thanks for the reply, I figured rmthat was the case. So, just to be sure, 1) setup new TRUEnas system, new drives, 2)use old Mac to access new NAS on network, 3) transfer media files to new NAS from old external drive, 4) wipe old external drive, and add to new NAS pool.
@@hottodropship9243 Yep, that should work. Just make sure you go with TrueNAS Scale as they now let you expand a VDEV (storage pool) with individual drives.
Killroy was here.
i want to do this but how could you be able to acess files outside your home network??
I am learning but first question, Can I still run it as a windows gaming unit while it runs the servers? I have not old equipment. I would like to have all the server functions as well as a friend have a terminal to game when coming over.
My 2600K intel i7 is not havin the mentioned virtualization feature, in case i convert, what am i missing out on?
diablotek 400 watt, sounds ominous 😈
when the pc reboots, how do you prevent data loss and make it restart everything automatically?
Which raid allows striping with an additional drive for redundancy ? I'm just looking into this , and am interested in the delivery performance with striping , but need The redundancy.
Any suggestions you can offer would be welcome -
Thanks !
I'd love to see this but with k3s on fedora. Something I've meant to do forever but keep screwing up 😂
Diablotek is a banger name for your brand lmao
Is there any way to convert mirror driver to other raid without loosing data
ive got the same cpu in a spare pc can you show me the door
Umm... Windows 10 and 11 come native with HyperV (Pro).
I hate these new PC cases, I need bays in front like the vintage ones had for raid drives the new ones dont have crap anymore but fans. Anyone know good place for old NEW cases with multi bays in front?
Instructions unclear friends unimpressed
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T-shirt approved
My cpu has virtualization but mu bios hasn't any VT -x option and is disabled, what can i do without virtualization?
I find TrueNAS an odd choice. Top complex for just a share. VM and docked in it is meh. Probably would have chosen Proxmox and add what you need on top. Some simple lxc to create shares and VM support is way better.
Cool
I literally just offered a Aoostar WTR PRO which should arrive in a few weeks. I fully intend to use windows and set it up as a NAS, hoping to get Plex and also Google Photo alternative so this is ideal timing.
Anyone know of any good Google Photo alternatives and also if there's any such thing as a free remote management dashboard to be able to monitor cpu temps, disk space etc (like Pulseway).
Thanks
6:04 cmon hyperv is easier for someone who needs this guide
quick rate is literally all a person like that would want
and then docker for microservices
Oh my god i am a DDR2 👀
O cara lá fala que um i5 é velho 😢. Aqui nossa realidade ainda é Pentium 2 e athlon
Why not use Hyper-V? its right there in windows.
Not in Home edition
@@RaidOwl Using Home Edition is always a sad sight to see, sorry to hear dude. I think using Hyper-V that's already built in is always a better option but that's just be. I enjoy your uploads, keep up the good work.
Oh hell nah yall ain't got no morals 😂 Well at least he honest omg. As a full time Linux/Mac and part time windows user . I guess that means I have some morals 😂
Great video, but I'm going to have to re-watch it at 0.25 speed!
Haha rewatch as many times as you like :)
Diabotek PSU... You trying to burn the house down?
Yes
trying to trick me into using linux even in the windows section, no sir
Lol idc what you use
Yup, my old gaming pc is running proxmox with my pihole, siem, idk, and a few kubernetes containers
can i use your server to clobe my vm's :D
My old pc it's Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz
MSI is a chinese motherboard? thought they were Taiwanese?
Lol I misspoke. Wrote the script before swapping out the MB 😅
I know it was a mistake but its actually a massive issue between the two countries. Both claim to be china
@@CPPRODUCTIONS1001I thought Taiwan 🇹🇼 wants nothing to do with China 🇨🇳? Well, the China that has persisted at least. I think they are happy to go forward as a independent country, no?
PS: That diablotek PSU is definitely E-waste. Possibly pyrotechnically e-waste.
Works great
Here for the comments…🍿😂
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bro what if its your kid
I said what I said
IMO, nobody should be using Windows 10 for this. Win 10 goes out of support in October 2025. Yes, it will continue to run, but at risk of joining a botnet within a couple years.
Also.... Win 10 / 11 Pro supports Hyper-V. Probably not as portable as VirtualBox, but more integrated.
Boooo, between VT-x and VT-d, I only have one. (Intel© Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz × 4)
You wearing that shirt because of a lost bet?
But really, cool content. I like that creators (like you, techno tim, etc.) are lowering the barrier for entry to homelabbing by giving simple instructions and budget friendly options.
Another banger Bert, thanks.
No. I like it.
And exactly HOW am I supposed to use this when my ISP wants $600 per month MINIMUM and wants me to call it a "Business Plan" or else they'll cut off my Internet altogether????
idk..?
Is this NBN 😳
you don't need to open this up online, you can start by building up your local network, without anything being open on the internet
The irony of copying and pasting terminal commands from the internet on windoze... Is this cultural appropriation?
Some misinformation in this video. Clearly that box is black, not white.
Also, RAID 1 does or can have some speed benefits on reads, both throughput and latency.
hi
hyper-v is built-in windows 10... all you have to do is enable it.
watching you fumble around in windows is painful.... I couldn't finish the video.
Not available in home version.
Not in Home edition dipshit
Maybe should delete this comment? Lol
Insert ackchyually meme here
@@RaidOwl There are ways of enabling Hyper-V in Home edition.