My crazy new Storage Server with TrueNAS Scale

In this video, I show you my new storage server that I have installed with TrueNAS Scale. We talk about the hardware parts and things you need to consider, and how I've used the software on this storage build. #TrueNAS #TrueNASScale #HomeLab

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:56 - Advertisement-*
02:34 - Case
03:57 - Mainboard
05:21 - CPU
06:30 - RAM
08:20 - HDDs
09:20 - Storage Controller
10:33 - NVME
10:49 - Network Card
12:02 - PowerSupply
12:36 - Fans and Cooling
13:17 - TrueNAS Scale
16:55 - Storage Configuration
19:25 - Network and Performance
22:48 - Backup and future Topics

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[CraftComputing]

Killer build! I hadn't seen that server chassis before. Great value for the money there.

[mineturte]

one of the few youtubers i watch that talks fast enough that I dont need to use 1.25x-1.5x speed while watching 😅😅 great build and very insightful walkthrough of the parts selection!!

[jonmayer]

ZFS-1 on 12 drives?! I'd either do a single ZFS-2 pool or split it into a combined 2x6 drive ZFS-1 pools.

[hcjkruse]

You can tune the ZFS (ARC) memory usage.. The default is 50% memory.
Lawrence Systems has a video on that.

[grocerylist]

You're brave, running raidz1 with 44TB and 12 disks!? I run raidz2 with my 8 drive 20TB TrueNAS.

[mrd]

High Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y content as always!! Bravo!

[horst.zimmermann]

Great setup, however i would not use raidz1 in a 12 disk pool, the risk to loose more then one disk is for me to high, i use raidz3 for my 12 disk just my 2 cents. Thanks for the

[nulldev]

For reference, consider the ASRock Rack MBs for home server use. They use standard desktop chipsets, but include some handy server features. For instance, the X570D4U-2L2T includes multiple 1Gb & 10Gb NICs, IPMI, SATA DOM, etc. crammed onto a MicroATX MB.

[Palvaran]

Great video as always. I work in Enterprise Infrastructure and we have seen multiple drives fail before at nearly the same time and the added strain of a typical rebuild on the other drives increases the likelihood of another drive failing. As such, I would recommend at least ZFS RAIDZ2.

[janliberda]

From performance and reliability standpoint its better to use multiple VDEVs. In your case probably 2xraid-z1. Still from my point of view its beter to use vdev with multiple parity (z2+), otherwise with some bad luck you can have some unrecoverable read errors while resilvering if one drive dies.

Still good content, thank you :)

I also builded my Truenas scale finally 1 week ago. TBH: If I dont have an old desktop to refurbish I wouldnt go for your customer PC build. A refurbished or used Supermicro board has usual a proper CPU and IPMI port and maybe even a 10g nic. Much more support on ECC and is more reliable on a 24/7 job and needs much less power. You CPU alone is a 65W listed. A m-ITX board with a Xeon (8C/16T) is listed at 45W for example. A used HP microproliant gen8 is highly modable and also offer more value with ILO on the used sector.
So at the end - I personal wouldnt recommend this parts, but everyone priors different things and its nice that more people get into truenas scale in general.

[valleyboy]

I built a NAS many years ago with a 24bay Norco case however I upgraded this to a used Dell T630 Server which was around 1000 Euro so much cheaper than a DIY build and much much higher quality parts 12G SAS3 backplane and included controller. upgrade CPUs to 14 core dual CPU for 70 Euro also can fit so much more RAm (128G and might add another 128G) . Best of all this server is so so quiet. had it in my apartment loungeroom. You can get other Dell servers cheaper but with less bays (mine is 18 bay) and used a cheap Sun F80 Warpdrive for proxmox /datastore) Great vid and remember it was fun building my 1st server similar to yours. Enjoyed your vid Christian Maybe you could do a vid on buying a cheap Dell server maybe a T320 or T620 or the like?? and building into a truenas server for the people who don't know much about building hardware? Also used SAS drives are much much cheaper too for these servers

[allards]

Great video, already looking forward to the 2nd video. I'm planning to install TrueNAS scale on my QNAP...

[jeytis]

Thanks Christian. Keep it up the good work.

[roopey]

I would always use ECC Memory when storing important files.
But, if there isn't important data on the stake, I still like to use zfs. Even without ECC

[Pro-cheeseburger]

great content! I just upgraded my Synology to 48TB

[johnjbateman]

I basically just did exactly what you did! Great minds!

[YeOldeTraveller]

I have two TrueNAS systems in my home network, and I use ZFS replication between them for the first copy. I also have a sync on the same data to a cloud provider for a second copy and off-site storage. The local replication duplicates the snapshots I have, and the off-site provides disaster recovery.

[Koqualski]

LOL. I just set up a thing like that at work today with 42 TB :D And the new TrueNAS Scale is really cool!

[levelnine]

Very informative and interesting video. The only thing I don't think is so great is the hard disk choice. Price (€) per TB including shipping. 14TB are the sweet spot at the moment. In addition, there is warranty 5 years, helium filled, faster and power consumption with only 5 hard drives 24/7.