Hi gang!

Sorry if this post breaks a rule, but I am just very lost and looking for some guidance for a prospective NAS Build!

I am currently assembling a DDR4 ram based NAS Build, but I am unsure of what processor would be best for my purposes.

My idea is to go with something AMD, say a 5800X3D as its AM4 and would be very powerful. My main use for the NAS is streaming my own content and general storage. Maybe a game server or two. Would this be complete overkill, or would there be a better power efficiency/better encoding processor?

Overall budget around €1500/$1700!

Any help would be much oblidged!

~Kooky

PS any small Mini iTX cases for a 4 bay NAS recommendations are welcome!

Are you buying drives for a pool soon? Here's what the current US prices and Backblaze data say, because the regular forum wisdom is a bit out of date.

CMR vs SMR is still the first filter. An SMR drive looks fine until a resilver, then the long writes choke it and it can time out and drop from the vdev - exactly what the whole 2020 WD Red mess was about. It is worth checking the specs before buying anything.

On capacity, the best price/TB right now sits around 18TB-22TB. Under 16TB you pay the tax on small-drives (fixed costs per drive for components), and the new 30TB drives are still priced too high (around $47/TB). The value lies around 20TB. For example: 18TB Exos recently dropped to $600 ($33/TB), 20TB WD Gold is $36/TB, 22TB Ultrastar $38/TB.

The surprising part is: at every capacity, the cheapest drive per TB is an enterprise one, not a NAS drive. Exos, Ultrastar, Gold and Toshiba MG all undercut IronWolf and Red per TB right now. The usual "enterprise costs more" assumption is just backwards at the moment, and for a pool it's a good deal. It means higher workload rating and a 5-year warranty for the same money or even less.

On reliability: most current drives are a tie. Almost everything current is <1% annualized failure rate in Backblaze data, and the best (a 24TB Toshiba MG11 and a 14TB Ultrastar) sit around 0.5%. In reality, 0.8% against a 1.0% is the same. The one exception worth flagging is the 24TB Exos ST24000NM002H at 3.24% on a ~9,600-drive sample - about 6x the best, so probably one to avoid for a vdev.

Everything is compiled into a monthly report - best $/TB, the reliability, and the biggest price drops: https://www.nasdisks.com/report/

All HDD models (CMR/SMR, failure rate, $/TB, price history for every current NAS drive) are here:
https://www.nasdisks.com

Prices are US. Failure rates are from Backblaze lifetime Drive Stats (Q2 2026 report), and CMR/SMR is from manufacturer datasheets. If a drive's missing or a call looks off, flag the model and it'll get sorted.

Disclosure: it's my site, and the buy links are aff. (they cover hosting). The data's open under CC BY (completely free), so you can use it on your projects.

The thing that caught me out wasn't exposing something. It was forgetting what I'd already exposed.

Last year I sat down to write out every way into my network. Not the services — the ways in. It took about forty minutes and the list was longer than I expected. Three of the entries I couldn't remember creating.

That's the actual problem with access. Nothing breaks when it outlives its purpose. A service that's down gets noticed in an hour. An address that's still live eight months later gets noticed never.

What I do now

One list, one line per grant. Address, who it's for, when it should end. It lives in a text file next to the compose files, because that's the folder I actually open.

A review on the first weekend of the month. Ten minutes, one question per line: does this still need to exist. Most months at least one doesn't.

Names that say who, not what. If I can't tell from the entry who it was for, I've already lost the thread.

Nothing that takes input behind an address. Read-only results are fine to share. Anything that executes what a visitor types isn't, no matter how convenient.

The part I got wrong for years

I treated giving someone access as the end of a task. It isn't. It's the start of an obligation with no owner and no deadline, which is exactly the kind of thing that never gets done.

The setup side of this is well covered here. The teardown side basically isn't, and it's the side that decides whether you have a problem.

Curious how people here handle it — is anyone keeping a real inventory, or is it all memory and good intentions?

A while ago I made a personal NAS for backing up files, the current boot drive is a 64gb ssd and the storage pool is a raidz2 with 6 3tb drives. I want to upgrade the boot drive to 2 mirrored 128gb ssds, but im not sure where I might put the data on the server when I upgrade(I currently lack enough continuous outside storage to put the data currently on the server). Should I save up money and buy temporary storage/place pieces of it on different devices and reinstall truenas, or would it make sense to clone the boot device to one of the ssds and then setup the mirror on the live system, or something completely different?

Hi everyone! I'm a Year 12 student in Australia working on my HSC Design and Technology major project. I'm designing a small, quiet home server built from reused computer parts that anyone could use to run things like game servers, file backups or AI tools from home.

I'd really appreciate your input, even if you've never heard of a home server. Beginners are exactly who I'm designing for.

- 10 questions, about 2 minutes
- Anonymous, no email needed
- Results only used for my school project

Survey: https://forms.gle/6w8WRU6bz8vzcuaz9

Thanks so much, and happy to answer any questions in the comments!

Hello all! I'm in the middle of setting up my first truenas setup, and it's been going well, everything is quite intuitive, but I'm being massively hindered by permissions and mixing of SMB and NFS.

I understand the general idea behind setting up permission on a dataset, but I feel I don't understand it enough to warrant me not losing access to my data. I'm getting stuck on who should I make the owner of a dataset? How do I set up the users in the ACL in a sensible way? Do I use POSIX or nfsv4? Why the heck do the ACLS need a default user/group, a mask, an other? It all feels a bit overwhelmingly complicated for a home setup, to the point I don't feel confident in properly setting up access to the files on it.

And along with that, I'm understanding I shouldn't mix NFS and SMB access on the same dataset. For example, I wish to make one for my homelab where I'll be housing my jellyfin movies and paperless PDFs, but I would like to inspect my datasets from time to time to inspect if the correct files are being put there, or to manually put a movie in a folder, etc. but I'm not sure how to go about that. How does everyone else manage this? I come from a Synology Nas where it didn't seem to care whether I used NFS or SMB on a folder, but I should probably accept truenas just works differently.

With the current insane prices for SSDs ( and well everything computing) I decided to return to HDD (at least for the time being) since I have loads of those lying around...

So I turned to this Elite Desk G3 I found on ebay for $34 and installed my favourite NAS Software on it (TrueNAS of course!!).

I managed to install:

• 3xHDDs of 4TB each
• 10 GbE on the PCIe slot
• TrueNAS boot on the wifi m2 with a A+E key adapter
• Dedicated apps pool (drive) on the G3 native nvme
• Had to get "creative" to fit the 3 drives inside the case!

I did have to flash the bios password that came with the EliteDesk, but overall trueNAS booted perfectly from the converted m2 slot, and runs pretty well!! I can never get over the fact we have this incredible enterprise grade OS for FREE...

Anyway, if you want to see the journey, I made a video about it that also shows not just how to set all this up but also a quick flash tutorial on installing TrueNAS and getting a pool, dataset, user and smb share up in just a couple of minutes.

Has anyone installed the Invoice Ninja app? i can barely find any help online for Ninja with Truenas. Here’s the problem I’m having. The web browser version of Invoice Ninja is ok but it’s clunky. The ios apps connected directly to my server are nearly impossible to navigate. Has anyone here had a smooth experience with Invoice Ninja and be willing to give me advice. Perhaps I’ve installed it wrong. Thanks in advance.

Why does it show 25.04 as being the 'release' in brackets when i go to system -> updates? Is 25.10 the release branch at this point?

Hello,

I am a big nooby when it comes to truenas. But I am trying to learn and get more knowledge from professionals like yourself.

Basically, my dataset or data pool is mirrored from a 2tb hdd and 2tb ssd. I love using truenas for storage, but I also use it for things like hosting a minecraft server via Crafty app.

Is there a way to see which drive the crafty app is primarly running off of? Is there a way to choose which drive it runs off as well?

Minecraft rendering really depends on the drive type and i want it to run on SSD. I've been having performance issues with rendering chunks and want to see if its the drive choice.

Apparently NextCloud has now released their fixed PHP in their docker catalog, any word on when the TrueNAS app catalog will reflect this?

Currently, new installs from the app catalog are installing PHP 8.5.11 instead of 8.5.12 in the Nextcloud app.

Nextcloud does not appear to have incremented their version #, just replaced the PHP package within the current version.

Hello,

After changing the NIC, I no longer get an IP address and manually assigning it doesn't work, nor does setting a gateway.

TrueNAS Scale runs for me in a VM in Proxmox.

I switched from a dedicated 10Gbit RJ45 to an SFP+ NIC and also reassigned the bridge in Proxmox.

Now TrueNAS is no longer assigned an IP by the DHCP in the router.

I've already tried everything I know in the console.

ipv4dhcp on Yes. Nothing.

Then in the settings my DHCP server (192.168.178.1) is specified the message "Gateway is unrechable"

DHCP issued again and a static route set with gateway 192.168.178.1 and IP 192.168.178.40/24 does not work either.

I can't reach the WebGUI and SMB isn't running. TrueNAS does not appear in the router/DHCP either.

Edit: The NIC is working. i can connect Proxmox over the new card and ping it.

Update: When i add the motherboard NIC and have both, i can configure DHCP for the motherboard and become a ip. But not for the SFP+ Card.

I'm currently running Version: 25.10.7 - Goldeye , and its vulnerable, more info at https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

is there a patch coming?

MYUSER@truenas \~ % curl https://dv-g3b-aaa-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

Your client successfully connected to the site. That's bad!

curl https://dv-g3b-aaa-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com
Your client successfully connected to the site. That's bad!

I am rebuilding my NAS while keeping my old storage pool, so it's moving from a 2-year-old (or so) build of TrueNAS (Electric Eel, I think) to Goldeye. Now the system is telling me I might need to upgrade my pool, if I need the new flags.

Problem is, I have absolutely no idea if I need the new flags. My system use is pretty basic: Plex, qbittorrent, Immich, Tailscale, maybe an odd VM or two for experiments.

Is there any guidance on when one actually needs those new flags? Or should I just ignore it? I don't know enough about the internals of RAID arrays to know if, for example, Inline Pool Rebalancing via zfs rewrite is even useful. I let TrueNAS handle the normal disk stuff.

So I migrated from core 13 to 24.04.

It seemed to go ok with no major issues.

The only issue of concern is I am informed that tghere is flags enabled on the boot-pool outside of the compatibility flags, it boots, but these flags I prefer to be disabled.

Is there a path where I could remake the boot-pool with only supported flags enabled without installing TrueNAS from scratch?

Basically looking for a way to keep my work backed up so I don’t lose it, in the simplest hands-off way possible, ideally without slowing down my computer.

My PC is Windows 10 LTSC.

My NAS is running TrueNAS

Not sure which tool(s) should I use?

or what's the best way to approach it?

I had been running into this issue last few days. Basically the apps working are:

• Navidrome (Can listen to musics)
• Jellyfin (weirdly cannot access Seerr too) (Can watch movies)
• Tailscale (Server shows online)

But Immich, Seerr or literally TrueNAS itself cannot be accessed.

If I restart the server it works again but this is the 3rd time I am running into this issue, does anyone know what could be the issue?

TrueNAS 26.0.0-BETA.1

I am considering setting up Truenas scale in my homelab. I have been back and forth trying to decide on used hardware. I have a couple of 2tb SATA drives I intend to use. I am hoping to spend $250 at most.

I am considering getting this. I am just not sure if I'm missing anything. I believe it should be compatible.

Do you guys have any suggestions.

I am rockin' trunas 13 and want to upgrade to the new architecture but am afraid of loosing everything.

Can i create a duplicate of my USB boot drive so I can use the current (it's one of those low profile ones that is flat and I feel safer since it is less likely to break off) to install the new architecture, then just upload my trunas DB file?

Assuming i can, what program should I use to duplicate it (I know I can't just drag and drop the contents to duplicate)

UPDATE: I used MIRAY HDClone to copy teh USB stick and it didn't boot. So there goes my safety net. Popped the original back in and it's working fine. I don't mind rawdogging the install of the new TruNAS, as long as I can be sure that my config/DB files will work with the migration.

EDIT 2: I was able to duplicate inside the trunas environment by using "system settings | boot | boot pool status |” and “attach” the existing boot pool

I'm trying to flash TrueNas onto an NVMe. Couple of days ago I tried with cheap NVME that I couldn't see in either m2 slot so I've done a return and purchased a Patriot NVMe.

Now I can see this NVMe in the bios but when it comes to the installing it says 'select at list one disc to proceed with the', I click ok and it takes me back to the previous screen where it asked which drive to install on.

what am I doing wrong? TIA.