Ms230000751
Cadet
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- Sep 15, 2022
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I had an old gaming desktop I've turned into a file server. It has been running Windows 10 and allowing access over the network to a 14TB RAID5 storage volume. This is for a small business that me and my sister are starting. We don't need much at the moment so I am sticking with this desktop as our primary data server with backup elsewhere.
But I want to switch from Windows to TrueNAS. The features and flexibility are more desired, and I use the tower for nothing but file transfer so it makes no sense to have Windows installed there.
My dilemma is this. The desktop has a QNAP-TR004 Direct Attached Storage connected to it. And it works fine in Windows.
But once I install trueNAS Core on the desktop in the place of Windows, does TrueNAS recognize the disks in the DAS so I could add them to a RaidZ pool?
I have a virtual replica of our network setup in VMWare Workstation, and I've already gone in and configured a trueNAS server and got everything working virtually with VHDs - but I am unsure and unable to find a straightforward answer as to whether trueNAS will even recognize the disks in the QNAP-TR004 for me to configure them like Windows recognizes each individual one.
I'm thinking I might temporarily dual boot into trueNAS on that desktop and see if it can detect the disks.
I've been thinking about switching from windows to Linux Samba - and then I saw TrueNAS, and I'm convinced this is what I want to use.
But I want to switch from Windows to TrueNAS. The features and flexibility are more desired, and I use the tower for nothing but file transfer so it makes no sense to have Windows installed there.
My dilemma is this. The desktop has a QNAP-TR004 Direct Attached Storage connected to it. And it works fine in Windows.
But once I install trueNAS Core on the desktop in the place of Windows, does TrueNAS recognize the disks in the DAS so I could add them to a RaidZ pool?
I have a virtual replica of our network setup in VMWare Workstation, and I've already gone in and configured a trueNAS server and got everything working virtually with VHDs - but I am unsure and unable to find a straightforward answer as to whether trueNAS will even recognize the disks in the QNAP-TR004 for me to configure them like Windows recognizes each individual one.
I'm thinking I might temporarily dual boot into trueNAS on that desktop and see if it can detect the disks.
I've been thinking about switching from windows to Linux Samba - and then I saw TrueNAS, and I'm convinced this is what I want to use.