Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoYeah, 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 3 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
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’m comfortable enough with those, that shouldn’t be an issue then. Thanks for the info!
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Be aware if you have the iGPU as the only video output device and passthrough to a VM it will no longer show what the host system is doing. This would be referred to as a headless server. I would suggest making sure you can SSH into the host before doing that. LearnLinuxTV has guides for how to do that with best security practices.
Docker works differently, so it may not be an issue with that.