Let's Build Another Storage Server!

I've a need for another storage server... so let's build one! I'm starting to get the hang of this!

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[GregSalazar]

A new season of Fix or Flop starts this Friday! 👽

[christopherprevost]

As others have mentioned:
- pass the drives through (or better yet the motherboard sata controller) to truenas and let the nas do what it's made to do. You'll enable more features, and generally have a much better and stable experience. It's a case of using the right tool for the job.
- give that truenas instance all the ram you can spare
- add more nvme so truenas has a write cache
- since you already have two systems, consider running truenas bare metal (I do see the appeal of managing everything via the proxmox interface but what else were you going to run on that machine?)
- finally, the dream machine se can serve your router. They call it a gateway, it's the same thing.

[brianhansen]

Before you fill those HDD's, please redo the config, TrueNAS needs baremetal access to drives, It's why the normal procedure when virtualizing is to passthrough an HBA to VM... with current setup you could potentially lose data, ZFS needs 100% control over when data is written to disk and it's status. that layer your setup removes from truenas

[Weazel]

I for one am loving these videos as I've been wanting to build my own home server so keep them coming!

[jeremywiginton]

You are 100% correct in mounting the UPS to the bottom. And for the exact reason you mentioned. You don't want to have something that heavy near the top of the rack. Especially if you get a bigger rack.

[catalystguitarguy]

I prefer running Truenas on bare metal rather than in a VM. it works either way but troubleshooting is easier for me without the extra layer of software between my data and i.

Glad to see you taking an interest in the more homelab/server side of things.

[Kevin-vctn]

You should look into getting an HBA and using pci passthrough to your truenas vm so you can actually utilize truenas's features

[SLICKOMODE]

This reminds me of being back at work. It's really fun to build these servers and configure them to your needs!

[BraaiMeester]

Most servers I've setup is with windows server 2012 and 2016 and I love it as I can setup what I need when I need it

[loganlowder]

Bruh yes thank you iv watched you for years iv been waiting for you to get into server stuff. Glad you’re getting into it now. There’s a huge community for this kinda thing so all the support you could ask for.

[ImARichard]

More server content is always welcome. We were all homelab noobs once, and I like to see other peoples journey into the hobby.

[Infipi]

I'm in the same server boat as well Greg...I love'em...Love building them!!! 645TBs across all my servers and going to build another one this summer. Thinking about going to a single Tower Rack setup this year. I'm overdue for one!!😉

[SkylerB]

as a gamer who doesnt know a lot about server stuff, this interests me a lot. In my own home one day id like to have a server rack like this, set up with large NAS that will act as a media server for movies, shows, music, videos, photos, etc, where me and my family can dump all of our favorite content and ditch streaming services. I would also set it up with remote HTPC, so that content can be accessed anywhere, especially the home theater. and would also like to incorporate gaming computers into the rack, as well as full house integrated networking. One day, maybe, if im ever able to afford a house that isnt 100 years old and falling apart

[Trylen]

Next on "Serv Your Right!" Greg is introduced to HBA cards and minisas SFF-8087 cables. I started years ago with IDE based, SATA was easier, but a PCIe 2.0/3.0 Host Bus Adapter with 2 or more minisas sff-8087 ports are your friend. Easy way to get 8 SATA drives on the go. Keep that first breakout cable in case you get such a card.

If you find this addicting... wait till you get into dual CPU xeons/epyc. Move to walking distance to a MicroCenter and sell your car.. to afford that path.

[mspencerl]

Before you get too crazy.
Instead of proxmox managing the HDDs you should pass the disks through directly to the Truenas VM.

Let Truenas manage them.

That way managing failed disks will be easier, or should you decide to upgrade a disk etc. You can use the truenas gui and for all intents and purposes proxmox never really touches these HDDs.

This setup is more common and recommended

Otherwise great vid I love it when ppl try something outside their comfort zones and grow

[ImreBertalan]

Yoou know Greg, I started watching LTT many many years ago mainly because they had so many server related videos. As I'm also a sucker for server hardware (sadly, I cannot afford any and my job is also not related to real servers, only VPSs) I enjoyed your video even more, than I used to. I wish I was there, helping and tinkering along with you. Can'T wait for the Fix or Flop series to come back too. Who knows, maybe you'll be able to accept servers for the series too. 😁

[DaveAndrus]

I have the same NAS addiction. I have 4 in my house, and I don't have any justification other than it's fun to do, and they back each other up! Sort of like hot-rodding a car--take a basic model, then add a vinyl wrap, dual carbs, headers, nitrous...serious hardware addiction, just a different platform!

[Devastator]

Pro tip Greg, for the PSU, you can actually stack the excess cables in the gap between the PSU & the mobo (alternatively, you can bundle up the cables right under where the modular cables connect to the PSU and cable tie the whole bundle together). I've done something similar and you just layer the excess cables over eachother and cable tie it all together and you're good. Not sure if that helps to try and tidy it up but I thought I'd put forward that idea. Love your work mate!

[Miniputt_]

Think i saw Jayztwocent use a similar case for a server build.
He went with 80mm noctua fans for less noise and more fresh air.
Loving the vid, looking forward to more :D

[kevinintheusa]

Too late my friend. I have built 6 servers after I purchased a 2-bay Terramaster then had to buy a 4-bay Terramaster when space filled up. I then built my next one and it was so large and efficient that I got hooked on making it bigger, adding a GPU for transcoding, and other bells and whistles. I have now built a total of 6 versions of my original build and each time, it gets a bit better. I am now building one for my son to store his games on and I put it in an Antec Silent Case with 8 bays in a mid-tower and it turned out great. He has 96Tb of space to store his games and plenty of redundancy if one or two of the drives fail.