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TrueNAS
TrueNAS
TrueNAS was new to me, and I’ll be the first to admit there are probably a bunch of things I could’ve done better. But running it as a VM on Proxmox with direct drive passthrough worked, RAIDZ1 gave me about 21TB usable, and I actually (reluctantly) enjoyed learning datasets and shares.
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Pros
- +Great for managing ZFS storage, datasets, and shares
- +Worked well as a Proxmox VM with drive passthrough
- +Made it easy to organize media storage
Cons
- -Learning curve if you’re new to TrueNAS and datasets
What DB Tech says
“I set up TrueNAS as a VM on the two-pool drive and passed the other four 8TB drives through that VM to let TrueNAS handle them directly”
“The total media that I copied from the Synology over to the TrueNAS VM takes up just a little under 11TB of space, leaving me about 10TB of space left, so I'm actually pretty happy with that”
“Then, I went back to my Plex VM and mapped the VDevs from my TrueNAS to my Plex server via an FS tab and deployed Plex via Docker with the Intel GPU passed through from the host so I could have it transcode media when necessary”
“Now I've never actually really used TrueNAS, so I know that there were a ton of things that I probably could have done better, but again, it was a learning process for me and I reluctantly kind of enjoyed learning the stuff that I did learn”
“And the cool thing about having TrueNAS and Plex VMs on the same machine is that all of the data is handled locally via Proxmox and isn't taking up bandwidth on my network, so that's kind of a nice little cherry on top”
