TrueNAS Hardware Guide: Build Your NAS System 🛠️

SpaceRex goes over what to look for when building out a TrueNAS NAS System. TrueNAS is a very high performant NAS operating system that uses the power of ZFS to store massive amounts of data. ZFS can be both an incredibly powerful filesystem that gives great performance to spinning hard drives, however if you do not have enough RAM it can actually be much slower than a standard file system.

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Articles mentioned in video:
Article on the space efficiency of ZFS: https://www.delphix.com/blog/delphix-engineering/zfs-raidz-stripe-width-or-how-i-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-raidz
Great article on NVMe L2ARC: https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SDC/2019/presentations/File_Systems/McKenzie_Ryan_Best_Practices_for_OpenZFS_L2ARC_in_the_Era_of_NVMe.pdf

First Time Setup TrueNAS: https://youtu.be/39jRD12h5rU
Setup Link Aggregation on TrueNAS: https://youtu.be/MEcFZ4Xgra8

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IronWolf Drives: https://geni.us/KqfkNe8
Cheap NVMe Drives I use: https://geni.us/nvQ3AY4

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