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When buying hard drives how do you go about choosing which one? Do you go solely on price or is there a type that is recommended?

I’m looking to get 2 16TB drives for a Nas is there something in particular I should be looking for?

EDIT, since people don't understand, TrueCHARTS is not affiliated with IXSystems or TrueNAS SCALE officially in any way. It is simply a helm chart catalog that's abandoning SCALE due to the upcoming changes with no migration plan. The official TrueNAS Catalogs are getting a full migration path.

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Let me start by referencing the problem: https://forums.truenas.com/t/the-future-of-electric-eel-and-apps/5409

TrueCharts, alongside all other K3s charts (Helm charts and TrueNAS stock apps) will not be supported on the next version of TrueNAS SCALE. TrueNAS SCALE is not "scaleable" with things like Gluster, so they gave up on supporting K3S and decided to move to Docker. While IX affiliated trains such as Community/Official apps are getting automatic migration paths, TrueCharts is simply leaving.

To preface, I love TrueCharts. I've exclusively used TrueCharts apps since I first got TrueNAS- the extra features and more complete guides were extremely valuable. The Community TrueNAS train are even more locked down, and the way they got things working through the K3S/Docker mishmash was insane.

Honestly, at face value- I love this change. Right now K3S is just running docker inside each pod, making it a double layered, unnecessarily locked down system. It's extremely hard to access one pod from another, making it impossible to have a single container running Gluetun for example. TrueCharts got around this by making a gluetun addon with some extreme hacks, but it's not as good. Pure docker will give us so many more options and make it so much easier to install custom apps, so on and so forth.

The problem is that TrueCharts is entirely based on Helm Charts. While the community train/official IX Apps are getting an automatic translation into Docker. TrueCharts is not. I'm truly disappointed in TrueCharts for this decision- from what I gathered on their discord, they will

1. Not be providing a migration path inside SCALE, aka all TrueCharts users will have to reinstall all of their apps to TrueNAS Community train on Electric Eel.
2. TrueCharts is dropping ALL support for SCALE, only focusing on a migration path OUT of SCALE.
3. All existing TrueCharts apps on SCALE have stopped maintenance/development, no further updates will be happening at all on SCALE.

While Kubernetes clusters are cool and all- I don't think anyone runs the TrueCharts apps on a truly clustered homelab. There's simply no point- the apps don't demand enough power to make this necessary. TrueCharts in itself was most popular on TrueNAS SCALE, and simply dropping all the support or not giving SCALE users a migration path that stays on SCALE is simply damaging.

At this point and time, many TrueCharts apps are NOT available on the community train, but installing them as a custom app will work most of the time. It also gives quite a few extra options that you can use if you're more familiar with them.

For SCALE users: Uninstall TrueCharts apps and move to TrueNAS Community/custom docker image apps before Electric Eel comes out, there's no point staying on TrueCharts as there are no more updates.

For the TrueCharts devs: While I extremely appreciate all that you've done for TrueCharts and TrueNAS all these years, these future steps are unacceptable for now. Please consider an automatic docker migration path like the official/community train apps are doing, for those who made their configs on PVC it's an extremely painful Heavyscript process to extract all the configs just to save their valuable configs/data. At least work on a tool like that, don't just abandon SCALE and expect the users to have faith in your future.

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I’m running a k3s cluster with all sorts of stuff. One of those is my Gitea/Renovate/ArgoCD combination. Although everything works fine, I feel that Gitea is a single point of failure. If it breaks, all my apps are “gone”. I wouldn’t mind moving the manifests to GitHub, but what about the passwords and other sensitive info hiding in my secrets?

How do you do it?

Cheers!

I'm looking to find out which motherboards support the EPYC Rome 7k62 (reportedly an OEM version of the 7642).

Can it only be used with specific motherboards, or can it be used on any motherboard that supports the EPYC 7642?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello i want to make a home lab and i found a good pc for 200 euro. Its a hp z440 with 64gb ram and zeon e5-2680 v4. Is it good homelab? And do you guys know how much power it uses?i

Hi all,

I am a humble homelab novice and, up until now, have been primarily focused on media/file hosting for my family, home automation, and high-performance networking for my house.

Recently, I have been considering that my monthly spend on various game dedicated servers for my friend group is a compelling reason to start hosting at home since I have the bandwidth for such a task (2000/230mbps). That said, my workhorse of a NUC which hosts all of my VMs via ProxMox is memory constrained. My initial thought was "well, I would just repurpose my 2-year-old gaming PC," but, as you might be able to tell from the photo, my lab lives in my very old basement with very limited space for a big tower. Plus, there is open space in my existing rack!

I am interested in purchasing some type of rack server and am seeking advice from the seasoned veterans in here. I've consulted the wiki and have perused sites like savemyserver.com but am still confused by the general nomenclature of the various options that are out there.

My understanding is that high single core performance is a priority for most games' dedicated servers so that's one of points of confusion for me as it seems like most servers I see have lower clock speeds.

Any recommendations to point me in the right direction?

I was wondering if it's possible to add M.2 NVMe PCIe expansion cards to motherboards that don't support PCIe splitting or bifurcation?

I assume that single-slot cards would work, but not 2+ slots, beacuse you won't need to split a port for one device. Is that correct, or can you actually get some multi-slot cards working?

I’m an IT student and I’ve been interested in starting my own homelab for a while just to learn on my own and maybe boost resume a little, and a sysadmin friend has a Dell Poweredge r530 that he is giving me for free, as his job was decomming a few older servers. What would be the best place to start making it into a homelab? I have experience with Linux/Unix and have also been learning windows server via VM, but I would just like to learn as much as I can, as I enjoy building knowledge in this field very much!

I've been running my truenas scale server for a while, but recent news has me looking to switch to proxmox, run truenas in a vm for my nas needs and then everything else like plex and the rr suite in containers. I have a Dell r720 with a flashed h710 mini. My boot drive is connected to that. If I install proxmox, then pass the h710 through to the truenas vm will that cause issues with the boot drive being passed through too? Will it still be able to be seen and used by proxmox? This is new territory for me here, sorry if this is a stupid question

Hi, I need some help.

I need to find a vertical rack or mounting system (2-3U) for my closet. The problem is, I need to mount it to the wall on the short side not the long side. Its for my router and switch.

Something within EU would be preferable.

Thanks!