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PC on the way : Need suggestion for my initial setup

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Noctosphere said:
HECK YEAAA!!!! IT WORKED!!!!
Thanks a lot for your help :toot::toot:
Now I just need to figure out how to work with TrueNAS/Linux station
Thanks again :)
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Long story short - Install TrueNAS to a small SSD or a flash drive (less optimal). Whatever storage the OS is installed to is used only for the OS and nothing else, so for example installing TrueNAS to your bulk storage HDDs is going to stop you from being able to save anything to them in TrueNAS. Once you do that, you can create a "pool" of disks out of your hard drives for bulk storage. You can run a single disk, if you have two disks you can make a "mirror" that way if one fails, you can replace it and it will copy your data back over from the other one that is still live, but you only get the total storage of one single HDD that way. If you have 3 or more then you can start considering RAIDZ pools which will combine those HDDs into one big storage target and you can designate 1, 2, or 3 of those HDDs as "parity" so that similarly to the mirror, even if one or multiple fail (to a certain extent) you can keep using everything and replace the failed drive and have it get back to a healthy state.

That's a gross oversimplification but an insight at least as to the direction you probably want to start heading down. There's a TON of very important or very helpful information to be read in their documentation. Not all of it will be helpful immediately, or at all, but at the very least keep it handy. https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.10/gettingstarted/

A few words of wisdom, until you are reasonably confident in your understanding of what you are doing with it, avoid storing anything on the NAS that you can't afford to lose, and it is always VERY STRONGLY ADVISED to follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy:

3 separate copies of your data, saved on...

2 different storage mediums (such as your NAS (1) and an external harddrive (2)), with...

1 copy kept off-site (store that external hard drive in a safe deposit box at a bank and only grab it when you need to refresh your backed-up data or recover your data, or additionally back up your data (or at least the really important stuff that's irreplacable) on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc)

That gives you a VERY high chance of being able to recover from your NAS totally dying from a lightning strike or all of your HDDs dying in quick succession or some other sort of catastrophic failure.

Edit - oh yeah - Glad to hear it started working!!
 
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Sicklyboy said:
Long story short - Install TrueNAS to a small SSD or a flash drive (less optimal). Whatever storage the OS is installed to is used only for the OS and nothing else, so for example installing TrueNAS to your bulk storage HDDs is going to stop you from being able to save anything to them in TrueNAS. Once you do that, you can create a "pool" of disks out of your hard drives for bulk storage. You can run a single disk, if you have two disks you can make a "mirror" that way if one fails, you can replace it and it will copy your data back over from the other one that is still live, but you only get the total storage of one single HDD that way. If you have 3 or more then you can start considering RAIDZ pools which will combine those HDDs into one big storage target and you can designate 1, 2, or 3 of those HDDs as "parity" so that similarly to the mirror, even if one or multiple fail (to a certain extent) you can keep using everything and replace the failed drive and have it get back to a healthy state.

That's a gross oversimplification but an insight at least as to the direction you probably want to start heading down. There's a TON of very important or very helpful information to be read in their documentation. Not all of it will be helpful immediately, or at all, but at the very least keep it handy. https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.10/gettingstarted/

A few words of wisdom, until you are reasonably confident in your understanding of what you are doing with it, avoid storing anything on the NAS that you can't afford to lose, and it is always VERY STRONGLY ADVISED to follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy:

3 separate copies of your data, saved on...

2 different storage mediums (such as your NAS (1) and an external harddrive (2)), with...

1 copy kept off-site (store that external hard drive in a safe deposit box at a bank and only grab it when you need to refresh your backed-up data or recover your data, or additionally back up your data (or at least the really important stuff that's irreplacable) on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc)

That gives you a VERY high chance of being able to recover from your NAS totally dying from a lightning strike or all of your HDDs dying in quick succession or some other sort of catastrophic failure.

Edit - oh yeah - Glad to hear it started working!!
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Thanks again^^
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I might be ready to move to Linux on my main PC. Which distros (is that what they're called?) would you recommend me for a smooth learning path to use Linux for gaming?
Again, I never used Linux before. I heard of WINE before, that allows you to play Windows games on Linux (Wine Is Not Emulating, right?), but do they allow to run any Windows software on it (as in any .exe)? If possible, I'd like something not too difficult to use for someone who used Windows his whole life (Over 25 years, I went through a lot of Windows versions, from 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 10 and 11, I never touched Linux and only touched Apple stuff when they had these "bubbly colored monitor" back in the 90's).
 
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I might be ready to move to Linux on my main PC. Which distros (is that what they're called?) would you recommend me for a smooth learning path to use Linux for gaming?
Again, I never used Linux before. I heard of WINE before, that allows you to play Windows games on Linux (Wine Is Not Emulating, right?), but do they allow to run any Windows software on it (as in any .exe)? If possible, I'd like something not too difficult to use for someone who used Windows his whole life (Over 25 years, I went through a lot of Windows versions, from 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 10 and 11, I never touched Linux and only touched Apple stuff when they had these "bubbly colored monitor" back in the 90's).
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Linux Mint is the often recommended 'noob' distro and being based on Ubuntu it should work better with Steam.

I would advise first trying a VM of Linux to get an initial feel whilst playing it safe, but there won't be good performance and it's not suitable for gaming.

Bare metal you may want a separate dedicated drive at first so you can easily revert back to your existing windows install, if not maybe backup your current windows drive and setup a dual boot during installation.

Now how good or bad your experience will be will depend on multiple factors such as your willingness to accept that Linux is different and what kind of compatibility the hardware/software you want to use is.

Proton (a fork of WINE) is the main method to play games these days, so maybe look up games you want to play on Protondb, this is built into steam.

Software outside of steam, etc. will usually be distributed either as 'deb' files (think setup.exe installers), through a repository (think app store) with Mint having relatively easy access to software like VLC, but others like MakeMkV may require you to compile it from source (instructions usually provided) or look for unofficial builds through things like flatpak which IIRC is built into Mint (can't recall if you have to manually enable it though).

Note that some games like Fortnite and Apex Legends refuse to work on Linux.

What kind of games/software do you want to run?
 
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There is no such thing as a best linux distro for servers, even though just saying that its a matter of opinion. Well you would be using a RHEL based system or a Debian based one. I prefer RHEL systems but for new users I would recommend debian based systems. If you want something direct then CENTOS or distros like TrueNAS for NAS systems.. or promox as a KVM hypervisor. Another good distro would be ubuntu linux. You know whats also good for servers? Novell OS. Although people don't really use novell anymore except for universities or servers. I used to run novell myself but they pretty much ruined their own company because even though they had some great ideas ie; virtual office, eGuide a organization search, sorta like Workday what happened was novell's management basically plummeted the company down.
 
I'm soon ready to upgrade my NAS. I have two 1TB HDDs on the way for it.
I'm gonna install them as a RAID for backing up some sensitive data I wouldn't want to lose (taxes, insurance, government and other kind of stuff). 1TB is quite a lot such use, which is why I'd want to back up some other types of datas.
I remembered that some of you mentionned a "cloud-like" app named NextCloud for TrueNAS.
As soon as my HDDs arrive, I'll set this up.
I was wondering, though, what kind of stuff can I do with this? For example, my Google Drive Cloud storage gets clogged more and more often (with Nova pics and stuff like that). Is it possible, for example, to synchronise my smartphone with my NAS, so that when I get home (and my smartphone connects to my local network), it dumps all these stuff on my NAS instead of my Google Drive?
 

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