Ive been playing with various apps to see what I like and I have changes a few things around. I was using Jellyfin until I decided to add a library of old movies, lots of them aged avi files. Jellyfin just didn’t like these even after converting them. They wouldn’t play at all no matter […]
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Today I decided to continue on and get my NAS running again that cheap and easy way. I connected my four 6TB WD RED HDDs via a sata cable to the motherboard sata ports. I really wanted sata cables with a right angles and I went shopping in town. I found only two shops that
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I have been making small tweaks getting things cleaned up. I set Truenas to start at startup. I competed a HDD backup for proxmox VMs and got stuck into Nextcloud to see how I need to set it up for other users. It turn out that Nextcloud app installed on Truenas Scale doesnt allow adding
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So far lots of work has gone into setting up this NAS. There are simpler options and other methods and I know that no matter what some of you will need to change setting and search for work arounds. It took me two days to get Nextcloud installed and running mostly due to most information
Just like earlier when I added Jellyfin I have to go through a similar process to Install Nextcloud.Again setting up permissions and shares. If for some reason I speed up this process and you start to get lost just look back to the earlier few posts to refine the process. 1 Adding additional Datasets Navigate
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Nextcloud, Truenas
Once you have Jellyfin set up the way you want and it is running correctly, the next question is usually how to add media to your libraries. There are several ways to do this, such as using SMB network shares, direct file copies, or other transfer methods. Each approach works slightly differently and has its
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Nextcloud, SMB
Now that the datasets are setup in the RAIDZ2 comes times to install any apps that want to be used. Im my case Nextcloud and Jellyfin just for this blog. Open Apps In TrueNAS Scale the Apps button is on the left menu, click it to enter. Now on the top right there is a
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Jellyfin
For anyone following along building their NAS you are really seeing that there is a lot of work to do, especially if you want to to for for your specific requirements. Now we are going to configure our storage and assign a static IP address so it always stays the same for easy access. Part
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Truenas
Time to continue on with the installation. 1, Start VM and install TrueNAS Make sure you have selected your truenas VM on the left. Towards the top right of the window is the Start button (next to the Shutdown button, greyed out), click on Start. The installation is running and we can watch it in
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First we need to download Truenas Scale so we can upload it to the NAS and install it as a VM (Virtual Machine). 1, Download Truenas Scale Community Edition Go to the TrueNAS community and click on the Downloads tab at the top and select TrueNAS Scale.You should now be on the Download TrueNAS Community
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Proxmox, Truenas