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Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Am Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:08:02PM -0600 schrieb Dale: |
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>> I have a couple questions. I currently have the NAS thingy on a older |
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>> Dell machine. It has a 4 core CPU and 8GBs of ram so it is acceptable, |
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>> for the time being at least. Bad thing is, only two drive bays. :/ I |
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>> have a few questions that I can't quite find answers to with google. |
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>> 1: I have the OS on a USB stick. From what I've read, they do fail due |
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>> to wear at some point. |
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> OTOH, TrueNAS is designed to run from it, so I would assume it handles its |
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> root drive with care. Perhaps you can disable verbose logging and such. |
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I've just read that changes were made a while back and they recommend |
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not using a USB stick anymore. It works but they tend to not last as |
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long as they once did. There could be any number of variables in that |
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tho. |
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>> If I reinstall TrueNAS on a new USB stick, will it automatically see the |
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>> previous pools and such or do I have to set everything up again fresh? |
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> Pools and their metadata are stored inside the pools. In Linux, you don’t |
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> even need to set up fstab. The pool stores its mount point internally. So |
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> you just start the zfs daemon and it does everything magically. |
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>> In other words, will I lose data? |
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> You won’t lose data, of course. But I think you meant settings(?). Probably |
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> about users, shares and such. Perhaps it has an export feature which can be |
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> run periodically. |
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>> This also includes if it is encrypted. |
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> Encryption is a built-in ZFS feature. So yes, it will remember that. Not |
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> sure about the decryption process (keyfile). |
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That's what I was expecting. I may test that theory just so I don't run |
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into any surprises. I kinda figure it works a lot like LVM does. |
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Different but details stored on the drive itself. Basically, works |
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wherever you put it. |
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>> 2: Hardware change. The Dell comes with a 100MB network card. I |
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>> ordered a 1GB card. I plan to put it in when it gets here. Will it see |
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>> the new card and work automatically or will it take some work to get the |
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>> network going? |
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> I assume the kernel is built like many general-purpose-distros: with |
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> everything in it you may need for the purpose. But since it is BSD, it may |
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> have driver issues (availability and stability for certain cards). |
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> Sometimes, when I read news about a new product, people complain that the |
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> NIC is not Intel and will thus cause problems with BSD, especially with |
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> niche stuff like the Killer-brand ethernet cards. |
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>> and recompile. I'm not sure about BSD tho. Since it is sort of a |
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>> binary thing, does TrueNAS handle hardware changes such as a network |
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>> card well? |
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> I don’t see a connection between being a “binary thing” and hardware change. |
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> Your gentoo is also a binary thing once it is compiled. ;-) |
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My thinking was, I didn't compile any of the software myself. Sort of |
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like if I install a binary based distro. It may have a feature or |
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driver turned on, it may not. Maybe you are right, it will at least have |
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the driver it needs built as a module and it will load it and work |
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fine. I have the same card in my Gentoo box so it is Linux compatible |
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so in theory, should work in BSD as well. I'd think. ;-) First thing, |
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it has to get here. It's already two days later than originally claimed. |
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>> I also found out something power wise. The Dell when booted and sitting |
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>> idle consumes about 120 watts monitor and all. |
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> I figured as much when you mentioned its 100 Mbps card. It must be old then, |
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> and back then, idle power was a non-issue. |
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>> My main rig consumes just under 200 watts. Not to bad |
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> That’s a very lot for my taste. With a lower mid-range GPU (110 W Radeon R7 |
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> 370) and one spinning rust, my 8-year-old PC used to idle at 50 W. Without |
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> the HDD and with Intel graphics it is now at 27 W. Still not a good number |
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> when compared with today’s hardware. |
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My Gentoo rig is a little old too. AMD 8 core CPU, 32GBs of memory, |
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LOTS of hard drives. I think there is eight in there right now. A |
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couple may be older but most are newer. |
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>> but a Raspberry Pi would likely consume 15, 20 watts max according to what |
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>> I've read. |
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> My 3B idles at 5 W tops, I think. It cannot be much more under load since it |
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> comes without a built-in heat spreader. |
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>> Given the number of hard drives, it could pull 25 or 30 watts max but |
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>> doubtful it would get that high. I'm looking at 4 bays but also found a 6 |
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>> bay. I think 6 is overkill tho. |
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> My four-bay NAS has four 6 TB drives and it draws around 50 W at idle. But |
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> that’s because it is a server board, incuding IPMI chip (and—interestingly— |
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> an internal USB-A for an OS stick). And it’s Haswell generation, so almost a |
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> decade old design. For this reason I switch it on only every few weeks or |
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> even months and only keep it running for a short time. |
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From what I've read, the Raspberry Pi pretty much all sip on power. |
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They really efficient. It's nice to know that even tho the one you |
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mention is more powerful, even it only pulls 50 watts. Thing is, I |
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don't plan to run the one I build except when updating backups. The |
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rest of the time, tucked into the fire safe. |
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Thanks for the info. Now to read next response. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |