I have over 15 years long history with It. I used it before it even had ZFS support... Right now it is the most stable and mature storage system. Enterprise grade stuff. Look into TrueNAS SCALE I think you will not be disappointed. The only downside is that it needs a beefier specs than the other options... But if you have a Proxmox server I guess that it shouldn't really be a problem.
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I have a 1L Lenovo that is pretty beefy.
I'm not sure that TrueNAS will run everything I would like to run, though. I also, sort of unfortunately, already have a QNAP NAS. I wish I'd never spent the money on that... Oh well.
1L Lenovo as the mini pc? I'm really interested in what you want to run. Because if it can run in a container or in a VM it can run on TrueNAS.
Yes.
*sighs*
I want to run umbrel for it supposedly being a good way to run a bunch of things that I want to utilize with supposedly click-to-install ease.
I could just run umbrel directly on the tinyPC... But, I have made my life more difficult since I thought I could run proxmox to run various VMs for other purposes without needing a billion separate raspis. (I irrationally dislike raspis. But also... One tinyPC is actually more e Li ectrically efficient than a bunch of them, and it is also much more powerful and upgradable.)
So I'm trying to get umbrel to install on a VM that I set up on proxmox but I can't figure out how to pass a thumb drive through and reboot the VM to install umbrel.
I also can't figure out how to pass through an iso image.
And more the VM refuses to reboot. WTF!
I share the almost irrational suspicion towards Raspberries too. In the past I built a project on it and it was nothing but issue next to another issue...
Electricity consumption is a also a good point.
Here is a build i did years ago...
Very impressive build!
And yeah. I have used a couple, but... I'm not really impressed with them. 🤷♂️
Yeah those were the times of hand building... Nowadays I would just go get used Supermicro server and call it a day. Comparable power consumption, significantly beefier, with build in redundancies and sturdy construction. It is a bit lazy, but I guess that is the old and balding me... :-)
No, it's just sensible at this point. Time is precious as long as you've got enough fiat to leverage for shortcuts, that's a good thing.