BEFORE Installing TrueNAS

In this video I discuss some things to do before building a NAS. TrueNAS Scale has some great options, such as ARC, L2ARC and SLOG, but they can be confusing and impact your buying decisions.

This is part 1 of a series whereby I will go through the install and setup process of TrueNAS Scale.

00:00 Intro
01:23 Primary use of NAS
02:31 Types of Data
03:54 Pools and VDEVs
04:39 Networking Speed Requirements
06:01 RAID Z2, Mirroring, Data Redundancy
07:42 Backups, Snapshots & Redundancy
09:02 Read Performance - ARC, L2ARC (Caching)
12:50 Write Performance - SLOG, ZIL, VDEVs
17:02 Secondary NAS Use Considerations
18:08 Cost Considerations, My Setup
19:15 Comparison of 2 System Setup Scenarios
23:41 Outro

#nas #truenas #networking

[stefannowak]

Man, this is so greatly organized introduction to TrueNAS. I watched like 50 videos about TrueNAS, I heard a lot of these terms related to it and I was so confused but you have finally explained it all in an clear and organized manner, thank you!!!

[pranay]

Great guide - very clear, to the point and covers a vast range of factors to consider!

[ashadow]

Thank you very much for the video. Any idea when will you have the next video in the series about installing TrueNas?

[wildmanjeff]

You don't loose all your information from updating the truenas system as far as I know, unless you are possibly have a crash while updating ZFS features, the data disks can be moved to different systems. if you use encryption you should have the keys backed up though

[stefannowak]

When would be next promised video on TrueNAS setup?