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First time NAS setup (alien.top)

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Hi all. I am getting ready to build my first NAS, I plan on using my old gaming PC for it, it has multiple hard drive bays, i5 processor, 16gb ddr3 ram and a GTX 970 video card.

Currently I have a 14tb external harddrive that's almost full, and I just bought 2 used WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14tb hardrives. My plan is to setup both hard drives as a raid 1, and transfer all my data from my external harddrive over to my hdd's and use a 250gb SSD for TrueNAS. Then probably re use my external hardrive for more linux isos since I'm impatient, until I can grab another 2 HDD's

I'm mostly anxious about somehow losing all my data when I make this transition since I have zero experience when it comes to running a NAS, is there anything I need to be on the lookout for, or do when I do this? Anything is appreciated! Many thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm mostly anxious about somehow losing all my data when I make this transition since I have zero experience when it comes to running a NAS ....

Not understanding how you will set up the vdev without losing data.

Here is my understanding of setting up Truenas.

You have that data sitting on a drive. At some point you will copy that data FROM the drive onto the VDEV.

But.... whatever drive is inside the NAS that you construct the VDEV from - to turn it into a VDEV you are going to need to (effectively) format the drive. You can't get around this. I am not aware you can take a drive with an active partition and data and preserve that partition and data.

I have a similar but slightly different problem. I have a solution that sucks, but it works. You might be able to adapt some piece of it for your own problem.

I have a 300 tb Gdrive account. Google got wise to me, sent me an email to tell me - and I quote, 'Cut your shit out. Also, we are freezing write access. Have fun. Asshole.'.

(you sort of have to read between the lines)

I have a 40 TB folder that I am desperate to keep. I don't really have 40 tb of free space.

So I am building a NAS. In the meantime I am terrified of Google shutting my account down.

I took a 7tb drive on my computer and purchased a BackBlaze account and did the upgrade to the account where they keep deleted data for 1 year. 365 days.

I read 7tb of that 40tb into that drive then allow backblaze to upload that data. When it is done I delete all the data and do another 7tb.

I can go into the backblaze account and recover the deleted files for 365 days so... the clock is a ticking.

(if you pay attention to the scheme you will see I am after redundancy. If all goes as I think it will go I will populate that folder from the Google Drive account. If Gdrive goes poof (as I fear) I can download it from Backblaze)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google really said that to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not understanding how you will set up the vdev without losing data.

I'm confused, I haven't used TrueNAS before, can it only work with one pool at a time or what? Why would it lose data?

Can't OP connect the two new drives as a separate RAIDz1 pool, copy the data, then wipe the original drive/pool?