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New update: my current setup is a dell power edge t310 with 6x4tb SAS, zeon CPU, and 12gb ECC all parts stock. No hardware raid. 2.5gb network card. Should I just replace the 6 drives? With larger capacities? That will probably be more than $10/tb... I didn't buy the 16 drives yet, they are used SAS drives 4tb each, turn to be about $40 each.

Current storage 8tb used out of 14... And lots of cold drives waiting to get copied... 10tb+ probably. Is it worth copying all the cold storage drives to the redundant nas.

Update: budget(200-600), the reason for the build is I found cheap 4tb drives for almost $10/Terabyte. So I want to use as much of them as I can

I am trying to build my final NAS build as a beginner.

I have a 6x4tb dell server, but it's not enough.

I am currently trying to build the final boss of my nasses. 4x16tb with truenas with raid

I am unsure of what parts to buy as I am a complete beginner.

I found a case that can hold all 14 drives.

I need a motherboard, CPU, ram, PSU

I am on a budget, kind of.

What motherboard do you recommend? Pulled from a workstations with CPU and ram? A server board? Normal consumer with normal consumer CPU? Motherboard should have some pcie slots for 2 sata cards and one 2.5 GB card.

What CPU to run all these drives?

What ram and how much? 16? 32? Ecc, non ecc? Ddr4? Ddr3?

Power supply: 850w or more?

All parts should be able to support the 16 drives with headroom...

I would appreciate any help on this build, I want to build this as soon as possible.

Thanks

Don't want to sound needy to this wonderful FOSS project, however...

I was wondering if there is going to be any progress on the Logitech G PRO 2 Lightspeed mouse.

Currently I see no Linux rgb support from any apps.

My mouse just has its light always on and drains the battery.

If anyone know how to turn it off, or a unofficial version of OpenRGB that has the support file. Please let me know.

Thanks a ton!

How to set up a new Mac mini with Tahoe 26.1 for the best possible privacy.

What settings should I turn off, what do you recommend for the vest privacy on a mac M4 ?

Currently using Linux, just need a dedicated editing and music making machine.

How to set up a new Mac mini with Tahoe 26.1 for the best possible privacy.

What settings should I turn off, what do you recommend for the vest privacy on a mac M4 ?

Hey all,

I am in need of replacing a faulty 4tb drive in my SAS NAS.

It needs to be a 4tb SAS drive.

There are many good deals on ebay for used 4tb drives.

What should I get to eventually replace all 6 of my 4tb SAS drives?

My Current Drives:

X477_SMEGX04TA07

ST4000NM0023

ST4000NM0023

ST4000NM0023 (faulty)

ST4000NM0023

X477_SMEGX04TA07

I'm currently debating between getting

Seagate 4TB 7.2K SAS 6Gb ST4000NM0023 Constellation ES.3 NetApp 108-00315-A0

or

Seagate Enterprise 4TB 7.2K 12G 3.5" SAS HDD ST4000NM0025 1V4207-037

or

Is there better 4tb SAS drives than segate? (HGST, WD, Toshiba, Dell)?

(Assuming SAME price for 4tb SAS drive)

Thoughts?

Thanks for the help!

(I should probably order a replacement asap....)

Edit: the for all the replies. So y'all agree Seagate is the best option ?

Hey everyone,

I recently built my first NAS. It was bough used with SAS hardware. I've finally got past all the roadblocks and problems that were in my way (I basically bricked a whole SAS drive, a hero of a lemmy user helped me fix it).

Now after filling the 15 TB of RAIDZ2 with around 100gb of data. One of the drives started waiving its white flag and wants to die on me.

I am a complete beginner with no experience with these things.

Is my drive dying and should be replaced? or can it be fixed?

This is the output of the 507 errors that TrueNAS received form it and labelled the vDev as degraded and the drive as faulted:

Output of zpool status and sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd

As a beginner it looks like this drive is cooked, please let me know if it needs replacing so I can order a new one and replace it right away.

Thank you sooo much!

Edit: SAS not SATA drives

Is there something that I am missing? I have auto rotate on and sensors are not off, the screen can rotate in other apps

I'm on pixel 9.

Any ideas? Is this a bug?

I'm holding my phone in landscape to take the photo ( no menus flip like they are supposed to)

Here you can see the photo was taken upright, not landscape:

Now holding portrait (photo flips):

Did I just brick my SAS drive?

I was trying to make a pool with the other 5 drives and this one kept giving errors. As a completer beginner I turned to gpt.....

What can I do? Is that drive bricked for good?

Don't clown on me, I understand my mistake in running shell scripts from Ai...

EMPTY DRIVES NO DATA

The initial error was:

Edit: sde and SDA are the same drive, name just changed for some reason And also I know it was 100% my fault and preventable 😞

**Edit: ** from LM22, output of sudo sg_format -vv /dev/sda (broken link)

BIG EDIT:

For people that can help (btw, thx a lot), some more relevant info:

Exact drive model: SEAGATE ST4000NM0023 XMGG

HBA model and firmware: lspci | grep -i raid 00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] Its an LSI card Bought it here

Kernel version / distro: I was using Truenas when I formatted it. Now trouble shooting on other PC got (6.8.0-38-generic), Linux Mint 22

Whether the controller supports DIF/DIX (T10 PI): output of lspci -vv (broken link)

Whether other identical drives still work in the same slot/cable: yes all the other 5 drives worked when i set up a RAIDZ2 and a couple of them are exact same model of HDD

COMMANDS This is what I got for each command: (broken link)

Solved by y0din! Thank you soo much!

Thanks for all the help 😁

Looking for a list of SFF (safe for family) movies that are high production quality with little to no spicy scenes and hints etc...

I know there has to be some, but I'm not asking for a recommendation like home alone or the lorax etc

I am looking for a good SFF movies like for example: The trueman show Pursuit of happiness Etc

I'm open to new genres so feel free to suggest what SFF movies you enjoy, don't be a lurker

First of all I know express is not the best VPN, i've been wanting to change for the past year.

Now seems like the time is finally here to switch VPNs, or not...

My question is what VPNs work for routers that are privacy friendly?

Do you recommend installing VPN apps on separate devices instead of the router?

What VPNs?

How do you use your VPN at home?

Should I stick with Express and get a new 300$ router? (i'd rather not)

mulvad on a router? iVPN?

Advice, thoughts?

EDIT: my router is a Linksys WRT3200ACM

As a complete beginner, what can I do with a raspberry pi 4b?

I'm basically completely new to networking and currently setting up a NAS. I have this raspberry pi 4b that I got but now can't think of a use case for it...

Any ideas of something that is very useful to host or have running on the pi4b?

Edit: I'm a complete beginner, and will use trunas on another server with jellyfin so my raspberry pi gets blown raspberries atm 👎

Photos, journalist, audio recordings, video, blogging, printing photos, making music, posting online etc...

How do you record certain events? Make a journal entry? Just keep it in your memory to yourself?

How do you trust you wont forget the small details that you know today?

How do you trust the security of your documented life? your journal, your printed photos?

You you like analogue or digital documentation? Do you store data on HHDs? (they have a ~30 year lifespan) Mdisk? Photos? Pen and Paper?

Childhood memories? How do you view these archives?

Do you even believe in documenting the events of your life? Is it important to you? The quicker you write down an event, the more emotion you can convey.

What do you do and don't do?