#truenas

If you're running Proxmox VE, you already know that your compute is only as good as your storage...

Same outage, harder failure. A whole RAIDZ1 vdev showed unavailable. The GUI said wipe or reassign. Reading the ZFS labels said otherwise.

A fresh ISO reinstall fixed the service layer — then Windows stopped authenticating anyway. The SID mismatch that made correct credentials fail, the missing default ACL entries that blocked recursive repair, and the fix sequence that got SMB back to where it was before any of it broke.

Two TrueNAS servers, one rack. Not a design decision — a decade of workload pivots. On when consolidation makes sense, and when it doesn't.

In many infrastructure modernization projects, organizations focus on virtualization platforms,...

Relying on simple external hard drives or paying exorbitant public cloud fees just doesn't cut it...

A private cloud is not simply about owning servers. It is about building a modern, secure, scalable,...

An 11-disk RAIDZ1 vdev showed multiple faulted drives and one member removed after a rack outage. Two commands got the pool back — no disk swaps.

Modernizing IT infrastructure does not end when a new platform is deployed. Many organizations...

Introduction: The Journey to Self-Hosting Building a self-hosted media ecosystem is a...

I built a NAS from spare parts — an MSI X99A Raider motherboard, a 6-core Intel Xeon CPU, 128 GB ECC...

How I got mine to work with Nextcloud running on TrueNAS using a Rpi 3 my DNS provider & Nginx...