I got an old Datto Siris 3 from a previous job. Its motherboard is an ASRock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R. I had been running TrueNAS on a separate RAID card. My original plan was to add a Mellanox CX311A for 10Gb. Then I looked up the board's specs and found…
This is the first in a series on how I built my homelab. My hosts use older Intel hardware, 6th to 9th gen. It's cheap, and desktops from that period still have useful specs, including NVMe slots. This page is the high-level overview. Each step gets its own…
I wanted an easy way to add and remove drives for cold storage backups, so I created this external drive caddy using this Hard Drive Rack. It is no long available on Amazon and has gone up in price, but you can create your own using similar methods or devices.…
For my local backups, I backup my virtual machines using Proxmox Backup Server to my TrueNAS device. While this is not the officially supported, it has worked well for me so far. The device I use for this is an Udoo x86 device which has worked perfectly for it. This…
NFS Share First we will set up the NFS shares from our TrueNAS Scale server. Configuration on the NFS server's side will depend on what you are using as a server. Under TrueNAS it's under Shares Unix (NFS) Shares. Hit the Add button and select the…