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slug: create-nas-server-with-truenas
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title: Template
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description:
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date:
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draft: true
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tags:
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- truenas
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categories:
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---
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## Introduction
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In my homelab, I need somewhere I can put datas, outside of my Proxmox VE cluster.
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At the beginning, my only one physical server has 2 HDDs disks of 2 TB. When I installed Proxmox on it, these disks were still attached to the host. I managed to share the content using a NFS server in a LXC, but this was far from a good practice.
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During this winter, the node started to fail, it was stopping by itself for no reason. This bad boy is 7 years old. When it was shut down, the NFS share were unavailable, which was affecting some services in my homelab. Luckily I could fix it up by replacing its CPU fan, but now I want a safer place for these datas.
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I this article I will walk you through the entire build of my NAS, using TrueNAS.
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## Choose the the right platform
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For a while I wanted to have a NAS. Not one ready out-of-the-box like Synology or QNAP. While I think these are good products, I wanted to build mine. But I have a huge constraint of space in my tiny rack and the choice for a small NAS case are very limited.
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### Hardware
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I consider full flash NAS. This has several advantages:
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- It is fast
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- It is small
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- It consumes less
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- It heats less
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But with a major drawback, the price.
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While the speed is negligible to me because my network can't handle it, the others are exactly what I'm looking for. I don't need a massive volume a data, around 2 TB of usable space is enough.
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My first choice was the [Aiffro K100](https://www.aiffro.com/fr/products/all-ssd-nas-k100). But I couldn't find a way to have it deliver in France without doubling the price. Finally I managed to buy a [Beelink ME mini](https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150?variant=48678160236786).
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This small cube has 2x 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports and can host up to 6x NVMe drives, plus a 64 GB eMMC chip to install an OS. I started with 2 drives for now, 2 TB each.
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### Software
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Now that the hardware choice is done, what I would use as software?
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In the past I've heard of several NAS operating system, like FreeNAS, Open Media Vault or Unraid. But I never really dig into the subject.
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Here my requirements:
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- NFS shares
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- ZFS support
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- VM capabilities
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After comparing the solutions, the choice was made to use TrueNAS Community Edition, which is the new name of FreeNAS.
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## Install TrueNAS
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The installation of TrueNAS didn't go
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## Configuration of TrueNAS
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### basic conf
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### pool creation
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### dataset config
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### data protection
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## Use of TrueNAS
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### Firewall rule
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### Data migration
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### Android application
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## Conclusion |