I build a TrueNAS Scale server a couple of weeks ago, mainly to be used for Plex.

I have set it up mostly working to rip my Blu-ray disks and automatically download new “Linux ISOs”, but with no experience with Linux, I have been struggling setting up permissions and other things via command line. Most videos on YT are from previous versions of Scale, which they are hard to follow.

I currently maxed out my 8TB array, (2 HP OEM 7.2k and 1 WD Blue 5.4k) one is in parity, but I just found out that it’s not as simple to add drives to a pool in ZFS.

I have 2 WD Red from an old MyCloud system I had laying around, which are the ones I want to add to the array. All of the drives I have are 4TB

I honestly do not mind starting all over if unRAID is the way to go, but not sure if that’s the smart way to go about it. I also have a 256 nvme that I would like to use as a cache drive if that means by file system would benefit from it. I just want to set it up and have it running.

Should I stick with TrueNAS or move over to unRAID? Would I see any benefits?

My set up is an i5 7600, 32GB of RAM

Any help would be appreciated

  • Dejhavi@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    unRAID is simpler and easier to manage than TrueNAS but requires a license:

    • Basic (6 disks) = 53,10$
    • Plus (12 disks) = 80,10$
    • Pro (unlimited disks) = 116,10$
    • Global-Front-3149@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      unraid also lets you add drives of varying sizes to the array (as long as it’s as big, or smaller, than the parity drive(s)). ZFS stuff doesn’t really let you do that.