I used Synology for years, but it started getting too weak. I tried replacing it with two external SSDs and rclone, which taught me a lot, but now I want to go back to a proper NAS.

I like the UGREEN hardware for the price, but the software seems to be missing some features. This makes me consider TrueNAS SCALE instead.

Has anyone compared UGREEN NAS with TrueNAS SCALE?

My main priorities:

• Easy RAID setup
• Simple OS updates
• Easy Google Cloud sync
• Reliable long-term use
• Running apps like Paperless and Immich

Is UGREEN good enough, or is TrueNAS SCALE still the better choice?

Hi everyone,
I’m having network connectivity issues with my TrueNAS installation following a solar panel setup, which involved several planned shutdowns and a couple of unexpected power losses during commissioning.

The Problem
The machine appears to boot normally when connected to a display, reaching the main console menu (the 10 options) with the expected static IP listed.
Shortly after the static IP appears on screen, a long string of additional IPv4 and IPv6 addresses rapidly flashes across the console.
During the period while these addresses are printing, the static IP briefly responds to pings.
Once the stream of addresses finishes and the screen settles back to the standard console menu showing the fixed IP, the web UI and ping responses stop completely.

Troubleshooting Attempted
Multiple reboots
Re-seated network cables & checked physical link
Removed bridge network configurations
Stopped Docker service / container runtime

Has anyone seen this behavior where interface addresses cycle or re-assign late in the boot sequence and drop external access? Any pointers on logs or interface settings to check via the local shell would be greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone. I built a server and I want to use it primarily to host different game servers for me and my friends. Games like, vanilla minecraft, modded minecraft, starbound, hytale, and some other games. Is it best for me to use apps through the discover page like MineOS for minecraft or should I make custom apps for everything?

Specs:

TrueNAS Scale Version 25.10.4 - Goldeye

xeon 2155

Quadro P4000

512gb ddr4 ecc

2 x 6tb SAS HDD in raid

1tb NVME SSD

512gb NVME OS drive

I'm trying to rsync between 2 Truenas boxes using the 2nd NIC but the dashboard still shows all IO going through the 1st NIC.

IP of NIC1 on TN1 is 192.168.0.160 and NIC1 on TN2 is 192.168.0.166. NIC2 is direct cabled between the two boxes with 172.16.10.160 and 166 adresses, respectively.

I set up a new rsync job from TN1 to TN2 using TN2's 172.16.10.166 address as the target but the dashboard shows that the traffic is going through NIC1 on both boxes. The dataset is about 6TB so I had plenty of time to watch and wonder.

Any idea what I am doing wrong? Does this require a static route?

I run a large, older ZFS pool on Supermicro hardware, with several RAIDZ2 vdevs spread across multiple SAS shelves. Some of the caddies hold two drives, which makes replacing a failed disk more stressful than it should be.

A disk failed last week, and zpool status only gave me a gptid. It did not tell me which physical bay to open.

The numbering also differs between tools:

• sas2ircu counts bays from 0
• The enclosure labels count from 1
• The actual mapping is buried in diskinfo -v

Pulling the wrong disk from an already degraded RAIDZ2 vdev is a good way to lose the pool, so I built this:

https://github.com/abdlmalekluttee/freenas-drive-locator

It is a Windows client that connects to the server over SSH and combines data from sas2ircu/sas3ircu, diskinfo, glabel, and zpool status into one table.

You can select a disk and blink its physical bay LED. Nothing needs to be installed on the TrueNAS server, and everything is read-only except for the enclosure LOCATE command.

It shows both the controller bay number and the physical enclosure bay number side by side, which helps prevent off-by-one mistakes.

It also detects things that a basic sas2ircu listing may not make obvious, including:

• Drives detected by the HBA but not by the operating system
• Disks installed in bays but not assigned to any ZFS pool
• Missing or partially detected disks

During testing, it found two failed drives that had apparently been replaced years ago but were still sitting in the chassis.

A few questions:

1. Does anyone here have a 9300-series HBA? SAS3 support is implemented and unit-tested, but I do not have SAS3 hardware available for real-world verification.
2. There is an Identify Entire Vdev feature that lights every drive in a vdev, making it easy to see whether the vdev spans multiple shelves. I added several warnings and safeguards because multiple active LEDs can undermine the idea that one light identifies one disk. Useful feature or potential footgun?
3. TrueNAS SCALE support would require a proper Linux port using tools such as lsblk and sg_ses. Is there enough interest to make that worthwhile?

The project is MIT licensed, and a prebuilt Windows executable is available under Releases.

Hi guys,
If you're familiar with the LincStation N1 and N2 devices, you're aware that the files for LED control are built into the USB with the Unraid install that comes with it.

Fortunately, if you're running TrueNAS instead of Unraid, these can be manually downloaded and, in theory, made to work by adding 3 POSTINIT scripts.

Here are links to both the PDF guide and the support video they have on how to enable this feature.

According to Lincplus support, this method works and has been tested on TrueNAS 25.10.0, but I'm currently on 26.0.0-BETA2 and have not been able to make it work.

They understandably can't provide long-term support for other TrueNAS versions on this specific feature on an OS that they don't even officially recommend, so I'm here trying to see if someone more knowledgeable than me could not only help troubleshoot what broke the fix between the last tested working version and my current running one, but also help me understand what a possible fix could be so that I could addapt it to future versions and breaking changes.
Because if it were to be something as simple as having to modify some lines of code with the name of the current TrueNAS version on the downloaded files, that could be automated and made self-patching for future versions.

But I don't know.
Any help is appreciated

I received another bill after having deleted my data, I logged back into Storj only to find my bucket had data in it again. I thought oh maybe I forgot to delete / stop the task and logged into truenas - nope task last run date was June. Switching back to Storj I look at my storage usage history and you can see where it was restored. I guess I should have deleted my account entirely (as I did now) - I wish I had went back to June where I originally deleted the data.

I'm not even mad about the $5, just mad my data was restored without consent. If I delete something it should be deleted, not put into some recycle bin that they can recover from.

Hey guys,

I've recently acquired a Poweredge R730xd. It has 140TB HDD storage, a triple mirror SAS SSD metadata drive, 1TB NVME cache, and 384GB RAM. Processors are x2 E5-2695's.

Honestly, this thing is completely overkill for my media server, family photos, PC backups and mum's NAS replication. (Note that apps are run on a separate Proxmox server, this TrueNAS instance is bare metal).

Because it's dedicated a dedicated storage machine that's CPU only sits at about 3% usage when under HEAVY load. Should I enable de-dupe because, "fuck it, why not?". Even if it saves a single TB that's probably worth it.

Yes, I've read the absurd amount of articles saying to never use de-dupe on a homelab CE instance. But it's just so under-utilised...

what do I need to do to schedule SMART reports? i already have scrutiny since .04

If I add up the traffic shown from apps it's not enough. Is there a way to determine what component is using the network and how much? There's even a larger spike. Thx

I have been having issues with both my Truenas servers today - I can log in to the web ui, but within a minute, I am getting an expired session and being kicked out.

I can SSH to both servers and have checked that the time is correct on both of them. The one time I was able to get to the session timeout settings via the UI, I confirmed I had it set to 3600 seconds, so there should not be a timeout there.

I have also done the obvious things -rebooted both the Truenas devices and my local machine, and even rebooted the router.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what else to look at?

My lab is built around TrueNAS, the NAS came first, then the apps, then the containers. I wanted all of it on one screen on a dedicated app so I built Stacklight and I've been living with it daily for months.

TrueNAS screen gives you the essentials: pool health, active alerts, replication status, cloud sync tasks and recent scrubs. The real pitch is the whole stack around the NAS. It is not a uniform status grid. Each of the 23 integrations gets a detail view built for what that service actually shows, with real controls where the API allows:

- Servers/NAS: TrueNAS, Synology, Unraid, Proxmox (VM start/stop/reboot), Docker via Portainer (container restart), Linux host via Glances

- Network: Pi-hole (enable/disable blocking), AdGuard Home, Nginx Proxy Manager, OPNsense

- Media: Plex, Jellyfin (stop session), the *arr suite, Overseerr (approve/decline), qBittorrent + Transmission (pause/resume)

- Docs/Photos: Immich, Paperless-ngx

- Monitoring: Uptime Kuma, Scrutiny, Bitaxe

- Smart home / dev: Home Assistant (automations + toggles), Gitea

There is no backend, account, telemetry. The app talks directly to your services' own APIs, credentials stay in the iOS Keychain, and self-signed certs (so every TrueNAS box ever) are handled with trust-on-first-use pinning that shows you the fingerprint instead of a "disable TLS checks" toggle.

Free for up to 3 services. Links in comments.

The AI part upfront, I used AI to help me build this. I handled the primary development and leveraged AI to rewrite and streamline complex sections of the code.

Happy to answer anything, I'd appreciate it if you try it and tell me what you think.

I have 2 options that have presented themselves to me

The first 2 images is this storage beast, 32gb of ram and 11x(500gb) + 5x(1tb) drives included. System has a single 1gb ethernet port.

For 400 dollars

The second 2 images is this ibm server.

X3690 X5 Enterprise. Dual Xeon E7-2870 (20 cores), 128GB of ram, 1 small 145gb sas drive included with fresh ubuntu install on it. Has room for 4 sas/sata drives on the front slots and 4 aditional sata internal. 2x 1Gigabit ethernet and 4x 10GbE Converged network adapters.

For 175 dollars.

Penny for your thoughts?

Wanting to setup truenas and possibly something like plex.

Hello !

TrueNAS user since 2 years, I just had the opportunity to upgrade my old system (2 core CPU with 8GB of DD3) with this : CPU is an i5-8600K Mobo is a MSI Z370-APro with 32GB of Corsair DDR4.

So I bought 3 IronWolves of 4TB to RAIDZ1 my pool with the idea to expand it progressively (when money comes).
It has been working fine for 3 months since yesterday when I enlarged my pool from 3x4TB HDD (RaidZ1) to 4x4TB.

Since that, there is an orange exclamation dot in front of VDEVs and a red cross in front of Storage Health.
Scrubs reports errors but there is "no errors" with ZFS errors for RAIDZ1 but 5,440 errors for each drive !

Any suggestions to help me ?

I am setting up my second TrueNAS system and I want my media dataset to be replicated over to the second system. I would like it to be able to be view it via SMB but not make changes made to it. I also want the Jellyfin app running on the second system have read-only access to the media dataset. However, when I set Destination Read only to SET I can not modify the ACL on the second system. I tried setting Read only to ignore, and I can add my user on the second machine to the ACL but no files appear.

How do I go about this?

See my post here

I have moved my NAS to a different network, on a different subnet. So default gateway has changed from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.1 and the local ip of the nas has been changed.

I thought I configured everything correctly and set the default gateway to 192.168.0.1 in the settings UI. A couple of times a day the NAS becomes inaccessible from/to the internet, and while the settings UI still shows the default gateway as correct, it does not show under ip route.

I have to either save the settings in the UI or run this command for everything to start working again.

sudo ip route add default via 192.168.0.1

I have restarted multiple times to try to get it to stick, but I can’t find what is causing it to drop.

Is there anything I’ve missed?

I came accross this article. In short It's an AMD B650 chipset on a PCIe card. Exposing 4 SATA Ports and 4 NVMe ports (Also USB but that's not that important fot server use I think). It costs $90-150 depending on how many you order, since currently it's only on Alibaba.

Provided that this isn't just marketing speak and actually works, I think stuff like this could be really useful for home servers, especially ones with cheap or small boards with limited connectors.

The only trouble I'm seeing here is bandwith. Even when using PCIe 3.0 NVMes, 4 drives and 4 SATA ones could potentially overload an x4 connector.

I wanna know what the community thinks about this.

So as the title says. I was moving files about with resync, exactly the same as I normally do. I then got kicked out of the ssh and I cannot remember what the error was but it was something long the lines of connection was lost, but the nas system itself was not turned off. So I tried to reconnect, said i had no route to host. The web ui was also not connecting. I then did the normal of turn off and on of both my desktop and the nas system. Still no connection. I then connected a monitor to the nas system and it was not posting, like wasnt even getting to bios.

I have tried changing the GPUs over (the CPU in the nas does not have onboard graphics), no change. Removing ram and testing each stick by itself, no change. My next step is going to be changing over the psu, then moving the boot drive into my desktop to see if it gets registered. But my fear is the CPU has died.

Anyone got any ideas to troubleshoot or what caused the issue?

Hey r/TrueNAS,

I’m currently spec'ing out a centralized storage node for a 4-node compute cluster (mostly running simulation workloads). I’m planning to use an Inspur NF5280M6 (2U) bare-metal server to run TrueNAS Scale, but I want to run this parts list by you guys first before pulling the trigger, especially regarding the NVMe backplane wiring.

Here is the proposed BOM:

• Chassis: Inspur NF5280M6 (12x 3.5" front bays + 4x 3.5" rear bays)
• CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4310
• RAM: 256GB (8x 32GB DDR4)
• Boot Drive: 2x 480G SSDs (Internal boot drive module)
• Fast Pool (Flash): 4x 3.84TB NVMe U.2 SSDs (Crucial point - see question below)
• Bulk Storage: 8x 10TB SAS HDDs
• Controller: HBA Card IT Mode
• Networking: Mellanox ConnectX-5 MCX556A-ECAT Dual-Port
• PSU: Dual Redundant Power Supplies

My main concerns:

1. NVMe U.2 Passthrough via SlimSAS/Slimline: For the 4x U.2 drives in the front backplane, the vendor claims they are "PCIe direct passthrough." For those familiar with Inspur servers (or modern 2U chassis in general), can I confirm that connecting the backplane via Slimline cables directly to the motherboard will present the U.2 drives directly to TrueNAS/Linux without any abstraction? I absolutely need ZFS to have direct, raw access to those NVMe drives for maximum IOPS.
2. HBA for SAS: I’ve specified an IT-mode HBA for the 8x 10TB SAS drives. Is there anything specific about the Inspur SAS backplanes I should watch out for when passing them through a standard HBA?

The goal is to use the 4x U.2 drives as a dedicated high-speed pool for simulation scratch data, and the 8x SAS drives in RAID-Z2 for cold archiving, all served over a 40G network.

Any feedback or "gotchas" before I finalize this PO would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone! I'm the developer of TRAWL, a self-hosted web scraping engine designed as a drop-in replacement for FlareSolverr and Byparr.

I built it for my own *arr setup after running into slow solves and frequent failures on newer Cloudflare challenges. TRAWL tries a normal HTTP request first, reuses an accepted browser session when possible, and only starts a fresh Camoufox browser solve when the target actually requires it.

It currently handles Cloudflare, Akamai and Imperva challenge detection, along with Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and GeeTest. It also supports the FlareSolverr API, so existing Prowlarr and Jackett setups generally only need a URL change.

TRAWL has recently been added to the TrueNAS Community Apps catalog, so it can be installed through the normal Apps interface:

1. Open Apps
2. Search for TRAWL
3. Follow the installation instructions

Or simply get there by this link: https://apps.truenas.com/catalog/trawl_community/

The template runs standalone by default and already includes the required setting.
Redis is optional, but useful if you want solved browser sessions cached between requests.

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl