FreeNAS Server

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  On 04/08/2022 at 23:19, Fluxmaven said:

I think there might be some confusion on what's going on when swapping boards, NICs, etc... All the actual data in ZFS is contained within the drives themselves. When you say "can't connect to the drive" I think you are referring to your SMB share that you have mapped in Windows. Breaking the share doesn't harm the actual data. If you go from a board with one kind of network controller to another, you would need to reconfigure your settings because the underlying device name changes ("em0" -> "igb0" for example), but the data will still be there.

 

Also, Gigabit is fully saturated at 125MB/s. Even spinning rust can manage more than that in ZFS. 

I tested this myself by transferring the same folder with 31GB of video files across two different NICs to my NAS. Over gig it averaged around 110-115MB/s. Over 2.5G it was 280-285MB/s. 

 

At the end of the day, you have it up and running and it seems to meet your needs currently. So there's no big rush to change anything, I just like giving you a hard time 

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Ahh yes. That will be the reason. Good shout. 

 

Im also fairly new to TrueNas. I was using TrueNas Core but it lacked expansion via other apps which you can get on TrueNas Scale due to the fact it runs on Linux, vs FreeBSD. 

 

Fortunately you can do an in place upgrade from Core to Scale, so it certainly doesn't mean you have to start from scratch. Though you will lose any created Jails as they cannot be converted, but at the time I only had a Plex jail, so no huge time to re-create. 

 

On my journey I have been keeping notes and guides on how to do certain things as some things you will do once and not touch for ages, meaning you can forget how to do it lol. Its true what they say, use it or lose it. 

 

I may create a Topic and share some useful tips I have come across so far.

[Avacado]

Can anyone recommend an app to use to facilitate access to my NAS via android OS? There are a bunch on the app store and I am lost in choosing one. 

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  On 07/09/2022 at 14:34, Avacado said:

Can anyone recommend an app to use to facilitate access to my NAS via android OS? There are a bunch on the app store and I am lost in choosing one. 

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Would interest me too as I do not have access via my phone right now, so having an app recommendation would be great.

[The Pook]

Solid Explorer? it's what I use

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  On 07/09/2022 at 21:09, The Pook said:

Solid Explorer? it's what I use

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Sweet, will take a look at that Cheers