TreueNAS Scale for the OS. Will be setting up a ramdisk for transcoding, VM, jails and zfs.Which OS are you going to install? With the amount of memory I assume a Proxmox or ESXi will be used?
TreueNAS Scale for the OS. Will be setting up a ramdisk for transcoding, VM, jails and zfs.Which OS are you going to install? With the amount of memory I assume a Proxmox or ESXi will be used?
I've just tested the same thing. I've successfully booted into TrueNAS from a disk attached to a SATA port via M.2. I've used the M.2 slot next to the network interfaces, together with the following card: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004060508487.html2x32GB Samsung working fine. Unable to get M.2 port to work as SATA port even though another website had a SATA M.2 drive working. Currently in M.2 slot over memory chips.
I have the same 5 port SATA card in your link in my "other" m.2 slot and it is working fine. In my first M.2 slot I was trying to get a SATA M.2 link this one working but no luck: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-SATA-Internal-MZ-N6E500BW/dp/B078218TWQI've just tested the same thing. I've successfully booted into TrueNAS from a disk attached to a SATA port via M.2. I've used the M.2 slot next to the network interfaces, together with the following card: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004060508487.html
Any news here how it works with unRAID?Seems to be possible with a few "hacks" - just found this (it's a debian/ubuntu hack/fix)
Shamelessly copied from the internet:
Open/create/etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
and add the line:
options i915 enable_guc=2
Then run this command:
sudo update-initramfs -u
I think this trick might work on more linux-flavors.
(Still not happy with the board as I cannot find a stable unraid config.. Depresses me greatly. Currently have this board with 32G. Hopefull I can free an old ssd so I play around again. I don't want this purchase to be a waste.)
To busy playing with my new TrueNAS setup. … sorry had to poke the bear.Any news here how it works with unRAID?
No news I'm afraid - used a couple of kernel boot param - some will boot the system and work for a while but under load it crashes. Going to use the board for an other project.. Posted a new thread on the unraid forums, but had no reply yet.Any news here how it works with unRAID?
TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.1 works great for all but hardware transcode. Will need to wait until the next kernel for fix.I'm in the UK and bought one of these boards from aliexpress from the Kingnovy store to (primarily) replace an old expired athlon opnsense box. Running a bare metal router on this hardware is a waste of resources though (IMO), so I've decided to take the virtualisation route and do a dual NAS / router.
Very impressed with the speed of delivery from China, ordered on 22 Feb 2023 and arrived at my door 3rd Mar 2023. No VAT or import taxes either, so if it works properly then I'd say it is good value. While waiting for delivery I bought a WD blue 500Gb nmve SSD and 2 x 16GB crucial DDR from amazon locally in the uk. So far the experience has been great, but I am aware of the long thread in the network section of this forum with people having difficulty with virtualisation on the jasper lake / i226 mini PCs. Currently I have it running proxmox 7.3.6 with VM's for opnsense 23.1.1_2, TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.1 and fedora 37 (for plex). Early days, but I'm yet to experience any of the issues other people are reporting with VM freeze / crashes.
I'm not running plex under truenas, I have it in it's own Fedora VM. Having said that, I am not having much luck passing the iGPU through as the gvt stuff doesn't work with this generation. I've read some threads on the proxmox forum claiming it works, but the solution given looks very kludgey,TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.1 works great for all but hardware transcode. Will need to wait until the next kernel for fix.
AV1 decoding, sound and an extra PCI 1x slotCWWK released a new NAS board with J6412/J6413 CPU, 4 i226 ports were reduced to 2 i226 and 1 realtek NICs:
I'm really hoping they release a board based with the Alder Lake mobile chips next.CWWK released a new NAS board with J6412/J6413 CPU, 4 i226 ports were reduced to 2 i226 and 1 realtek NICs:
I think CWWK is catching up with applying pentium 8505 and i5/i7 12th gen laptop CPUs to the regular multi-port boards(link) and then also the NAS boards. But passive cooling is an increasing cost issue for these CPUs.I'm really hoping they release a board based with the Alder Lake mobile chips next.
A 1235u version of this board would be a great replacement for my Xeon-1521D server.
HBD20
coupon code seems to bring the price to around $190 for the N6005 (~187 if you've got those AliExpress coins). I think that's the lowest I've seen this sell for.unraid just started without any tinkering with boot params ?Was planning to replace my old Synology DS416j with a homemade NAS, and chose this mb after reading this forum and various other reviews.
I ordered it on Aliexpress and finally got my motherboard installed and entire system setup. I've been playing with it for a week. It's been working fine for me until now with Unraid (Plex + Immich phone photos+videos backup are my main use cases). I was looking for the smallest form factor possible, as I have space restrictions on my desk, so the search for the smallest case took a bit of time.
Here's the full build details and links I bought from:
I'm planning to get all data transferred from the Synology onto it now.
- Topton 4x Intel i226-V NAS Motherboard N6005 2.5G Nics Dual M.2 NVMe Six SATA3.0 2*DDR4 HDMI2.0 DP - LINK
- Toploong home storage hot-swap NAS Storage Server chassis - LINK
- faspeed SSD M2 NVME 256GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 2280 - LINK
- Flex 400W PSU Small 1U (Flex ITX) - LINK
- Crucial CT4G4SFS624A 2x8GB Memory - LINK
- Case Fan replacement: Noctua NF-P12 redux-900 Ultra Quiet Silent Fan, 3-Pin, 900 RPM (120 mm, Grey) - LINK
- Samsung Flash Drive Bar Plus 32GB - LINK
- Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB Internal 7200RPM 3.5" (ST16000NE000) HDD - LINK
I've also ordered the following for better cable management, waiting for delivery:
Case is great, but I had to replace the case fan as it was too loud for my taste. The Noctua running at 900 rpm is much more silent, and the mb and cpu run at about the same temps.
- ATX 24Pin to 14Pin Power Supply Cable Cord - LINK
- ATX Molex Micro Fit Connector 4Pin Male to Male Power cord Cable 60cm - LINK
- Elbow SATA 3.0 Cable ST-LEFT; UP-LEFT; ST-DOWN - LINK
Also had to get elbow SATA cables to get all 4 cables connected properly (you can connect 3 SATA cables without any problem, but the case is slightly bothering the 2nd row of SATA connector, so I will try 1 elbow SATA and see if I can fit all 4).
Was able to get Unraid installed without any issue on a temp USB drive to test out, then on the Samsung 32 GB.
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