It’s been over a year since I first mentioned testing out TrueNAS and uh, over a year since the last update. Sometimes no news is good news, or no updates means things got boring because they just work.
I had one little issue with the TrueNAS server. One of the boot SSD drives died. Now, that was not a big deal, because I had two of them. I did worry about just running one of them though, so I got a spare and dropped it into place. I also added a bunch more drive months ago so there are now two separate pools. Overall as a file server it’s been great. I also use it for Time Machine backups for a few Macs in the house.
The OpenMediaVault server was working well until… the boot SSD started to fail. It limped along for a while, throwing a lot of errors, and my plan was to drop in a new SSD but then I had surgery and still haven’t had time to deal with it. I guess the lesson there is that having a backup boot SSD is definitely a good thing!
I did lose a few things I had set up for self-hosting on the OMV box that were not running on the TrueNAS box. Jellyfin was one, and FreshRSS was another. I had mentioned in a previous post how some container applications were a lot easier to setup on OMV over TrueNAS, and that bit me, because now I’ve needed to get them running on TrueNAS.
Almost all of my issues setting things up on TrueNAS have been permissions issues. I’ve fixed most of those issues. Jellyfin, FreshRSS, and File Browser are now all working fine on TruNAS. Along with a bunch of other applications I’ll cover in another post.