I want to create a NAS for my family at home. I am already pretty sure about using TrueNAS as software, but the hardware is still open.
What hardware do you recommend for 2TB of usable Storage (+a second drive for mirroring the first one) that is used by 3 people for pictures, videos, and documents?
I have a UGreen NAS (6800 Pro) and the hardware on it has been great. I added a new system drive and have been running Proxmox since day 1.
The install process would be the same, enter bios, enable boot from other drive, disable UGreen OS drive, and then reboot to install whatever OS you want.
NASCompares did a video review of the UGreen NAS with TrueNAS installed and had nothing but good things to say.
I got mine during the Kickstarter campaign, but I still think they have some good value at retail vs competitors.
I’ve owned QNAP and Synology, the one area that has been an issue has been around the CPU being the bottleneck and slowing down transfers. This was on the lower end models.
I really really would love them…if only they would allow ECC RAM and more RAM in total. Then they would have built a killer device.