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nah i tried to use my old pc for a nas, but it has almost no SATA ports. (it was a prebuilt)

I love my trueNAS!

I got an old server and it has a hardware raid card on it. I installed trueNAS on it. Shows 18tb raid right away (24tb 4tbx6). And it does not help that I'm new to this stuff.

Is hardware raid any good for truNAS? should I just get a pcie to sata and connect drives individually?

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This is likely also true when you start serving stuff and need transcoding etc.

Mime didn't, but it is from 2006. I think it is messed up.

I have an old machine been using as a Unraid server for years. It's an i7-3770 paired with 32GB of ram and like 4x2TB drives.

Finally upgrading it because it's just not going to keep meeting needs and frankly it's wicked old (might keep it as a gitlab runner server or something). Finally "upgrading" by taking some old hardware (and bought some new), to have a full compute + storage setup. Proxmox (Ryzen 9 5900XT + 128GB ram) with all the compute and TruNas (Ryzen 7 3700X + 64GB ram + 8x16TB drives [LSI LOGIC SAS9211-8I] [raidz2/82.62 TiB usable]) for storage with a private 10G direct link between the two (Intel X550T2BLK).

I used to have a 5700G system that I had to switch out to a 14600k system due to quciksync pass through.

I got my 14600K down to 55w from 75w with everything else being equal. Insane how efficient some setups can be.

My 16tb Pi sips at 13w max or 8w idle. But no encoding or enough storage for normal work. So it's warm storage

My GPU failed on my old (vista) PC and can no longer boot. Should I throw it away?