pfSense vs. OPNSense?
I've been running pfSense at home for the last three years or so. It's working well, and has honestly given me no reason to change. But who needs a reason, right? OPNSense forked from pfSense about...
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Friendly reminder: You are a wonderful person!
And wonderful people deserve to know about the wonderful, lesser-known tricks of ZFS. (My clickbait game is strong. No one does it better than me. Your criticisms of my superficial methods only make me...
View ArticleGame-changer for ZFS 2.2? Intelligent compression that saves CPU *and* space?
Apparently, an upcoming feature for ZFS is a complete re-imagining of how inline compression will be used. Here is an example to summarize the gist of it: You configure a dataset to use ZSTD-9...
View ArticleKilled an NVMe drive running a long SMART test
Hello folks, Not looking for any support on this one - just thought it might be an interesting share. I just killed a Sabrent Q4 2TiB NVMe by running a SMART test -- I'm not joking. It also happened to...
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What's the deal with all these scary and mean people here?
Steady there, "tiger". I only asked you a ZFS question... Is that how you "partition" your drives...? W... w... what are you going to do? Bash me with your guitar? Um, how would you know that...? Oh,...
View ArticleHow large a pool would you run with 32GB of RAM?
So this is the situation I'm facing. I'm getting to the point where I need to plan on an increase in storage space again. Being the digital hoarder that I am I'm currently up to 61% used space on my...
View Articlewget and cookies
I'll throw this out there: I frequently download software via the TN shell using wget. Some vendors require me to log on to access their files. I'd like to know if there's a way to log on from Firefox...
View ArticleST3000DM001 HDD S/N corrupted after firmware update
I have a ST3000DM001 1CH166 CC29 drive and sometime ago, i updated the firmware from freenas command line i think. The drive correctly shows the model / vendor and version but the serial number appears...
View Article... and now for something completely different
... warning, this is quite off-topic. :) We've had some free time on our hands and due to a family health emergency I never got to put on a proper Halloween display as normal last year. So we built a...
View ArticleHelium Drives - Long-term use
Nowadays, the bigger harddrives are often filled with Helium instead of air. However, Helium is a very volatile gas and I have problems in believing that the Helium stays inside the drive chassis...
View ArticleWhere to get Enterprise SSDs in Germany/Europe?
Hello, do you guys know some good online shops for getting (used) enterprise SSDs in Germany or other shops in other European countries that ship to Germany? Where do you buy your enterprise SSDs? Is...
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FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS
Hello Found this info FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit features 4 M.2 slots and 2.5 GbE Ethernet - Liliputing FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit features 4 M.2 slots and 2.5 GbE Ethernet liliputing.com Do you...
View ArticleHardware Recommendations for Low Power Server (TrueNAS + Proxmox)
Hello, in my current homelab a Proxmox system runs 7 VMs and 4 LXCs on an Intel Core i5-4690S @ 3.20 GHz with a load of around 40% over all 4 cores. My plan is to get a new server which runs TrueNAS...
View ArticleUEFI boot advantages vs. classic boot loader?
Hi, Perhaps I missed something "big" here. But having been "socialized" with hard disks in the 1990s (anyone remember the OS/2 Warp boot manager?) the UEFI approach seems rather complex. Any thoughts...
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Memes! TrueNAS, ZFS, and related | (Share your own!)
Figured it'd be fun to have a thread where we can create and share memes related to TrueNAS, ZFS, and file servers, including anything within to the overall theme of this community. Let's keep it...
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