Bikerchris
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- Mar 22, 2020
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Hello all,
I hope we're well today?
I've been on the forum quite a bit today, far more than usual, in part because I was obligated to watch a number of children's TV shows (phone discretely hidden).
It may simply be bad timing, but looking over the last 24 hours worth of posts in various topic areas, displays a large number of requests for a free lunch (those not wishing to RTFM) and on some occasions, simply bizarre interactions.
I'm personally very grateful for the voluntary help I've had from this forum, after I've tried to read up on a certain usage. I try my best without asking questions and absolutely failing all attempts, I turn to this forum.
This got me thinking though, why do I prefer TrueNAS to any other solution? There seems to be a lot of dislike appearing on the forum, "why doesn't this free system do what I want it to do?". For me though, the simple answer isn't necessarily the best, TrueNAS is pretty much the only NAS system I've ever used. I did try UnRaid for a few hours before hand, very easy to get up and running with it...and that's what disturbed me. I'm old enough to know that the less effort you put into something, potentially the less useful it may be over time. TrueNAS got me learning a huge amount about things I previously had no interest in, or had never considered.
There are probably a hundred use cases for a NAS, that can be filtered down to just a handful. TrueNAS sucked me in because during my testing and familiarity phase, lasting 2 years (I had other things to do as well), I saw first hand how it dealt with issues. Touch wood, but I've not lost one bit or byte of data since I've used it - despite me being involved.
My suggestions to anyone new to it remains the same:
Thanks,
Chris
I hope we're well today?
I've been on the forum quite a bit today, far more than usual, in part because I was obligated to watch a number of children's TV shows (phone discretely hidden).
It may simply be bad timing, but looking over the last 24 hours worth of posts in various topic areas, displays a large number of requests for a free lunch (those not wishing to RTFM) and on some occasions, simply bizarre interactions.
I'm personally very grateful for the voluntary help I've had from this forum, after I've tried to read up on a certain usage. I try my best without asking questions and absolutely failing all attempts, I turn to this forum.
This got me thinking though, why do I prefer TrueNAS to any other solution? There seems to be a lot of dislike appearing on the forum, "why doesn't this free system do what I want it to do?". For me though, the simple answer isn't necessarily the best, TrueNAS is pretty much the only NAS system I've ever used. I did try UnRaid for a few hours before hand, very easy to get up and running with it...and that's what disturbed me. I'm old enough to know that the less effort you put into something, potentially the less useful it may be over time. TrueNAS got me learning a huge amount about things I previously had no interest in, or had never considered.
There are probably a hundred use cases for a NAS, that can be filtered down to just a handful. TrueNAS sucked me in because during my testing and familiarity phase, lasting 2 years (I had other things to do as well), I saw first hand how it dealt with issues. Touch wood, but I've not lost one bit or byte of data since I've used it - despite me being involved.
My suggestions to anyone new to it remains the same:
- Use good hardware
- Test hardware properly
- Test with test data
- Experience a few failures and deal with it.
- Create a post on here if your Google/TrueNAS Forum Foo is exhausted
Thanks,
Chris