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Shipping in aug 20th?

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Note: 1:Pre-sales for the fourth batch of WTR MAX machines will begin on June 30. Estimated shipping date is around August 20.2: If a refund is made for personal reasons during the pre-sale process, I will deduct a 5% handling fee 3:Does not support Laptop sodimm 2*48,96GB RAM, but support 96GB...
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1:Pre-sales for the fourth batch of WTR MAX machines will begin on June 30. Estimated shipping date is around August 20.

But down below says there is 13 in stock? I wont bother ordering now if i am waiting until Aug 20th ….??
 
Yea seems like they are now out of stock and wont start dispatchiing until 20th August.

Also, Minisofrim n5 is also out of stock. the only viable NAS of thus type that is available is the UGREEN one.
 
Pretty much all services moved over from my old VM setup. I've also moved Plex to run via a Cloudflare Tunnel, along with some accompanying apps to handle things like requests (which I won't go into too much detail about for obvious reasons). This gives external access for people who use my library, and now I don't have any ports open to the internet. :) PS, useful guide here for Plex via Cloudflare and disabling caching. https://mythofechelon.co.uk/blog/20...ee-secure-high-quality-remote-access-for-plex

Transcoding multiple 4k streams without an issue, the only thing holding me back is internet upload speed. :cry: Running like an absolute charm with plenty of CPU power to spare. Fingers crossed the remaining 3 HDDs turn up tomorrow and I can get on with rsync'ing my all my files/media from my old NAS over to the new one (currently mounted via NFS shares).

More of a TrueNAS thing but I'm not a huge fan of how it handles containers out of the box, so I've decided to create my own Datasets for it and manually map the folder structure during deployment.
 
Bluecube said:
What do you think of the hardware itself?
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Physically it's well built and feels solid. I'd say premium, because it's put together very well but I do wish there was some more noise deadening for the HDDs. This seems to be common in recent times, even the latest Synology units are skimping on this. I mentioned before but I feel the way Minisforum have the pull out tray for motherboard access is superior, but then again how often would you need access? The drive bays are solid with an in built locking mechanism for 3.5" drives. 2.5" would require screws but I've not tried it myself. I wish there was a lock mechanism for the HDD bays to prevent accidental drive removal, I have a 3 year old and I could imagine him pulling one of the drives for the lolz and giving me a huge headache! Apart from that if I was being picky I would have liked an internal power supply, but with it being a Chinese device with long wait periods for replacement, perhaps external is the better option.

Temps are holding up fine, up to mid 70's on the CPU when it's very busy, and no cause for concern on the drives. There's enough room to put the provided heatsinks on the NVMe drives in the slot tray, and any gen 4 drive is throttled by the (lack of) PCIe lanes so they're never going to be driven anywhere near as hard compared if they were on a consumer motherboard as an example.

Overall, very impressive for the price, and the performance is great for what it is. I'm barely scratching the surface but I've still got quite a bit to bring onto it. It's probably wise to have a cold standby because support turnaround isn't going to be anywhere near what Synology could do. And I've no idea how it's put together internally as quite frankly I can't be bothered pulling it all apart, I'll wait for Rob 'ChatGPT' at NAS Compares to do that.
 
ChrisD. said:
2.5" would require screws but I've not tried it myself
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That's one thing I have tried. No issues with fitting a 2.5" SSD.

Mine has been in use with Unraid for over five days and so far so good. It's had an easy life so far and think it always will as the eight core Ryzen will be plenty of power for years to come especially with the iGPU for things like transcoding video. Tried it with a couple of 4K HDR streams (one direct played, one transcoded) at the same time and it barely broke sweat as you'd expect. I was also using four Windows VMs but nothing heavy.

The only niggle I've noted so far is I struggle to saturate a 2.5Gbps connection. I suspect this is down to my disk setup more than anything though
 
Bluecube said:
The only niggle I've noted so far is I struggle to saturate a 2.5Gbps connection. I suspect this is down to my disk setup more than anything though
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I think that's an Unraid thing, I've read a lot about it as it does appeal but it does look like it's limited in terms of throughput to a single disk. But then again you get the benefit of chucking in any old disk into a pool and seamlessly adding to it, which is where ZFS lacks.
 
Would’ve thought a SSD would be enough though. I suspect the disk cache isn’t that big as the network transfer speed fluctuates. I’ll try it with an NVME soon just for fun.

Always wanted to try TrueNAS but I’ve been using Unraid for so long that any move would be a pretty major undertaking ie time I don’t have. Another good thing about Unraid is that the move from my old server to the Woostar involved just plugging in the hard drives and starting up the Woostar with the Unraid USB plugged in. And I was straight into my Unraid set up with no further configuration required.
 
Two rsync's running, from different storage pools from my Synology onto the same pool on TrueNAS. The destination pool is 6x16TB disks in RAIDZ2, I decided against metadata VDEV after doing some reading and I'll use those NVMe drives for iSCSI.



Decent transfer rate which is averaging around 800 MB/s.
 
ChrisD. said:
Two rsync's running, from different storage pools from my Synology onto the same pool on TrueNAS. The destination pool is 6x16TB disks in RAIDZ2, I decided against metadata VDEV after doing some reading and I'll use those NVMe drives for iSCSI.



Decent transfer rate which is averaging around 800 MB/s.
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Nice one. I'm more of a syncthing fan but I heard rsync is similar
 
jonneymendoza said:
Nice one. I'm more of a syncthing fan but I heard rsync is similar
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Never tried it, I tend to learn use tools which are natively available in multiple Linux kernels rather than ones you have to install manually. Mainly due to doing a lot off Linux stuff at work where there's limited repos or no internet access.
 
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ChrisD. said:
Never tried it, I tend to learn use tools which are natively available in multiple Linux kernels rather than ones you have to install manually. Mainly due to doing a lot off Linux stuff at work where there's limited repos or no internet access.
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Syncthing is available in multiple Linux distro if that's what you mean?
 
jonneymendoza said:
Syncthing is available in multiple Linux distro if that's what you mean?
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Not bundled out of the box on the few boxes Ive just tried.

What I mean is, I tend to avoid the use of tools you have to install via apt/yum/compile if there's a built in options available. Which means I know the syntax, so when I'm on a box and need to do something I'm not having to dig through the man page because I haven't used it in some time.
 
ChrisD. said:
Not bundled out of the box on the few boxes Ive just tried.

What I mean is, I tend to avoid the use of tools you have to install via apt/yum/compile if there's a built in options available. Which means I know the syntax, so when I'm on a box and need to do something I'm not having to dig through the man page because I haven't used it in some time.
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I decided not to go and buy this nas as I already have a full tower case that has a amd 5600g cpu and about 10 random hdd attached to it with a sfp pci card. It idles at 70w only!

Gunna upgrade the hdd and put bunch of SSD for fast data access in a mirror vdev on its own pool and then create another pool with the 7 mechanical hdd in z2 configuration which has 2 redundant drives.

I'll install true nas of course to manage it all.

Chatgpt helped me create a good document and strategy for doing this all and because of it. I understand the meaning of pool zfs vdev and two ways you can do caching ie by a nvme or ssd or by using your ram
 
Still setting up mine. Taking ages to get things off a gen8 microserver. Getting there slowly though- just got the display screen software going via unraid too. Well impressed so far anyway. On a bit of a learning curve with unraid at the same time too. But plex is up and running again anyway with HW transcoding so the family is happy!
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How did you get the display to do something useful? My Aooster is hidden away so I’ve no use for it but when I looked the software seemed to be Windows only.
 
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