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Ok thanks for all the replies, appreciated :)

Does a brand ‘optimised’ RAM work in either intel or AMD? Just bought some ram for an intel system from OCUK, but what arrived is AMD optimised ram. I checked the listing of what I purchased, and the only clue to it being an AMD optimised RAM is the word ‘expo’ in the listing, no other...

So got around to installing truenas and plex. Now I am bewildered by all the options for ways to set it up. So I am searching for good tips to set up the media folders, which I think I will do a little more with than using the 'default' Movies and TV Shows recommendation. I think I need a few...

I think it had a layout of sorts, so you could understand the rooms geographically, and they had some sort of graphic depiction, but if I recall it was ascii or something similar. It wasn’t a chat with just lines of text from anyone typing/speaking. You’d end up chatting with people in the room...

Hi all. Back in university I used to use some form of text based "chatroom" on the school computer terminals. It was more like a collection of "rooms", where one could travel between them, and they each had a theme or setting. It was a vaguely fantasy setting if I recall. It was text based...

Thanks mate, ok yes thought so, but just checking. Emby! Gosh there are so many different platforms out there. Will just have to experiment with one or two of them and see if it's my cup of tea.

Ok so quick sense check: is there any convincing reason to go RAID5 instead of RAID6? I was planning RAID6 due to the better recovery/redundancy potential, but see lots of builds and build videos happily using RAID5. This question is with a five disk setup in mind.

I might quack under the pressure but here goes: 01-03-2013

Ok the Jonsbo N1 and kit all built and installed. Lovely equipment actually, really enjoyed putting this all together, really clever design and nice and good feel and quality. Haven't run it yet, still considering best way to set it up, but thinking TrueNAS. So not sure if this is the best...

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Am having a hard time understanding why the press are reporting areas of Ukraine as having been annexed, and in some press as ‘formally annexed’, as opposed to reporting them to have been ‘allegedly’ annexed according to Putin, or some similar phraseology. There’s big reporting of no other...

Hi, have been wondering about VMs and a good use for them. Could you possibly help educate me a bit on this? Ie, good use cases, benefits for setting these up, etc. Am reading up on this prior to deciding on the setup to deploy, it's a big arena with a lot of information to understand and...

OK so kit all arrived. Jonsbo N1 chassis, i5-10600 10th gen Intel CPU, z590i Aorus Ultra ITX mobo, thermaltake 550w SFF PSU, 16gb 2400 DDR4 RAM (from 2x8gb sticks, I know, possibly overkill), 256gb nvme OS disk (hard to get smaller for almost the same dosh), 5x12tb IronWolf drives, and a wing...

Thanks, guess I’ll go two sticks. This is a decent resource I’ve been looking at: https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwareguide/ Decent info here, if I’ve understood correctly for my 5 disk system, 8gb ‘home-use’ use case should be enough: ‘You should have at least 8 GB...

Thanks @Snapshot , I was thinking 8gb should be sufficient. I have a motherboard on its way, with 4 sata ports onboard, and will put in a spare sata pcie I have which has ports on it also. If I don’t go for cache nvme I could go either ssd or nvme for the OS Edit: Could I get one stick of ram...

Couple more questions please lads: 1. For a NAS is there any benefit of going to an nvme drive for the OS, or is standard SSD fine? I assume the latter? 2. Does a home NAS benefit from a cache disk? If so, nvme or ssd? Have read that for consumer media use, it's not necessarily a benefit...

Hey thanks for that. Hadn’t fully appreciated how the management side works. Yes was planning to run TrueNAS and as you say it has its own system. Need to read up more on the set up clearly! But Z2 is what I’ll opt for. Much appreciated.

Great idea on the PCIe SATA cards. Just checking these out, not all support RAID it seems, though? Or at least, some seem to support "soft" RAID, and some support RAID1, but not RAID6. Will keep checking but can't see anything that states it'll do RAID6. Edit: Aaaanddd... RAID6 needs to be...

Excellent! It’s a little beauty. Have you got your spec sorted by any chance? Or still working it out?

Having a hard time finding a good combo of either intel or amd. I wanted to get a cpu with display abilities (either an igpu intel cpu, or g-type amd cpu), and a mini-itx mobo with 2 m.2 slots (1 for cache, 1 for sata riser io), relatively minimal on power consumption, and relatively cheap...