A friend of mine had an unRAID NAS and moved that over to TrueNAS later after being bothered by the licensing costs, that’s why I was looking into the latter more. I do know how to RTFM, so I think I should be fine on that? But maybe there’s gonna be a huge negative surprise, I suppose I don’t know that yet
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h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I’ll make the obligatory unRAID suggestion. It fits a lot of less intensive scenarios like what you’re describing. It does carry a cost, and the licensing model is “interesting”, but it has top-tier ease of use, especially around container apps. It would also allow you to use that 1tb ssd as a cache drive since the OS would run from usb (well, in-memory but stored on usb). You can also trial it for free for 30 days and if you don’t like it, there’s plenty of good suggestions in the thread already
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah, they did something goofy with it, but they’re at least trying to not be nakedly evil. I got in when it was just a perpetual license, but the new model isn’t as bad as a lot of people think. TrueNAS is good too - I use the enterprise version at work and it’s done well. The biggest differences are that the Ent. version doesn’t expose containers or lxc so i don’t know how that works, and TrueNAS/ZFS requires same-size disks where unRAID allows mixing sizes while retaining up to 2 parity disks. At work, I buy specific drives, so zfs is great - at home I buy what’s affordable, so zfs isn’t so good
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Oh I didn’t even consider the fact that I might need to pass through the iGPU. Thanks for pointing that out, will double check. Although it’d be very odd if TrueNAS struggled to do that, considering how many people use it and how many of those have some kind of self-hosted streaming service. But of course, always best to check anyways!
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Truenas uses KVM for virtual machines. So that will allow GPU passthrough, but may require command line and config files to do it. For docker this seems relevant: forums.truenas.com/t/…/11797
filister@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The problem with unRAID is that you don’t really know when their product will be enshittificated. A very fresh example is Plex which was great for years and now is a bloated utter mess. They have changed their licensing policy and made the product legitimately worse for the end customers. And don’t want to be cynical but the chances are that unRAID will go that way too sooner or later.
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah, I’ve stopped using plex entirely. I was grandfathered in, but it just got to be too much nonsense. The license changes to unRAID don’t meet that bar, IMO. Yeah, the old license model is gone, but “buy once upgrade free forever” is what caused plex to go the route it did. I honestly never expected to get upgrades forever - I assumed that it would have to go one of a few ways for the devs to be able to feed their families, and what they choose is definitely one of the lesser evils. For a lot of use cases, it even makes sense. I stayed on 6.x for probably close to 3 years, so i would have saved money with the new scheme. I’m also willing to admit that if you’re truly dead set on free (both libre and gratis), then there are plenty of solid choices there, too
filister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have a lifetime Plex pass, but recently I switched to Jellyfin because I got sick and tired of Plex’ shenanigans.