Discussion
I want one
OK, I'm going down the TrueNAS route and it's all you fault.
I think it's escalating into a beefy home server. I've been looking at the System76 lineup.
Any recommendations?
Will be NAS, Node, Plex, etc. Might put a GPU in there to play with local LLMs.
I think diy with AMD and ECC ram is the way to go.
Install proxmox as hypervisor, run truenas in a vm, although this can be pretty complicated and annoying, might be simpler to just get a dedicated device with truenas running bare metal
Truenas has this annoying thing where the host reserves a GPU, so without integrated graphics you can't actually pass it to your Plex instance, kinda fail
I went this route with TrueNAS running in a Proxmox VM and the HBA card with the entire array of spinning disks passed thru to TrueNAS. I chose Intel because of its video transcoding capabilities (media server is one of my use cases). 70 different Docker containers running including my LN node and Nostr relays. I also roll without ECC RAM because I’m a fucking maniac. But the system is rock solid and was super rewarding to cobble together.
Just finish installing most of the apps I want on my new DIY TrueNAS machine that should replace a 9 year old Synology. It's really great once you passed the learning curve.
Still have to find a good automated backups scheme, I had to make compromise here ad it's not possible to fully encrypt the backups with rsync but I'm almost there.
However I keep my Bitcoin node on a separate machine, I don't feel confident running all media apps togheter with Bitcoin.
I'm using encrypted backups with rsync and backblaze 🤔
You mean data are encrypted by TrueNAS before being sent to Backblaze with rsync? Without sitting as an encrypted copy locally, which would double space needed.
I want to do this if possible but destination will be my old Synology that will be moved to another location later on and linked over a Wireguard tunnel. As I trust the place where the backup NAS will be, it's more of an extra protection than necessary.
😂 My day today…converting from NAS Raid array to 2TB NVME StartOS server.
Growing up in the floppy disk era, I can’t believe how much data fits in such a small chip. 
