ZFS ZFS For Home Storage

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smdb01us

Howdy,

I hope this question belongs to this group. I wanted to pick y'all brain on what to do for my home storage. I am going to use an old Mac Mini (Intel) for a personal NAS. I installed TrueNAS on it and it seems to be working fine but last night, I started thinking: TrueNAs runs FreeBSD, it uses ZFS and since it is just for me (my wife does not trust anything I do for storage/backup, lol), I really don't need advanced monitoring on r/w IO levels or anything like that and I am ok with managing it using command line. Do you guys see any benefits on TrueNAS over FreeBSD/ZFS? Thank you for your input!
 
I've never used Truenas, but I use Freebsd in almost the same way you propose. Old computer with new drives and SATA controller running Freebsd / ZFS. It hosts Timemachine for backups of all of mine and my family's Apple devices.
 
Jose said:
I've never used Truenas, but I use Freebsd in almost the same way you propose. Old computer with new drives and SATA controller running Freebsd / ZFS. It hosts Timemachine for backups of all of mine and my family's Apple devices.
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Thank you Jose, I am assuming that you use SAMBA/smbd on top of ZFS, right?
 
A more conveinent interface to manage it.
Rolling your own and using command line interface would be great as a learning experience. Maybe more pain up front as you learn how much is hidden behind TrueNas interface, but in the end, you'd get a better appreciation for the tools.
 
mer said:
A more conveinent interface to manage it.
Rolling your own and using command line interface would be great as a learning experience. Maybe more pain up front as you learn how much is hidden behind TrueNas interface, but in the end, you'd get a better appreciation for the tools.
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Exactly that. Ask yourself: Do I just want a NAS system and get on doing something else—or do I want to learn FreeBSD, and build a NAS while I'm at it?
 
smdb01us said:
Howdy,

I hope this question belongs to this group. I wanted to pick y'all brain on what to do for my home storage. I am going to use an old Mac Mini (Intel) for a personal NAS. I installed TrueNAS on it and it seems to be working fine but last night, I started thinking: TrueNAs runs FreeBSD, it uses ZFS and since it is just for me (my wife does not trust anything I do for storage/backup, lol), I really don't need advanced monitoring on r/w IO levels or anything like that and I am ok with managing it using command line. Do you guys see any benefits on TrueNAS over FreeBSD/ZFS? Thank you for your input!
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The more I used FreeNAS/TrueNAS the more I needed to do things 'my own way' and not tinker with that web interface.

I use plain FreeBSD for my backup machine, details are here:
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Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup

I brought up this topic in the past. It was in the form of more theoretical Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server post and more hands-on Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – DIY Backup article. On…
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vermaden said:
The more I used FreeNAS/TrueNAS the more I needed to do things 'my own way' and not tinker with that web interface.

I use plain FreeBSD for my backup machine, details are here:
vermaden.wordpress.com

Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup

I brought up this topic in the past. It was in the form of more theoretical Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server post and more hands-on Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – DIY Backup article. On…
vermaden.wordpress.com vermaden.wordpress.com
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Yup, that's the way I went, loving it so far! :). Great document! Thank you for sharing!
 
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