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crisisacting wrote: ↑02 Nov 2024, 07:27

awl29 wrote: ↑01 Nov 2024, 23:59 * When will the TOS 6.0.x releases be also available for devices released with TOS 5.1?

TerraMaster shifted away from buildroot which all previous builds used, to now using a kernel that's more Ubuntu adjacent, which complicates offering a simple upgrade path from earlier builds.

Clean install (.ins) releases should have already been available (that's how it was with all major builds) when it was out of beta, however that didn't occur, likely for the above reasons & maybe others that they aren't be transparent about, publicly.

If they are being cautious, then most here are probably comfortable waiting, rather than having to put their data at risk or go through multiple backup & restore cycles.

Thank you, that makes the most sense. Stops me from pulling the plug (Pun ) (Amazon return date for me Nov 8th for F4). I will wait, granted I have everything backed up on my F2-223 and F4-223 and hope I don't need to exercise the restore process.

rfbjr wrote: ↑02 Nov 2024, 21:19 Amazon return date for me Nov 8th for F4

You might actually still want to return that one & purchase another (especially if originally bought big on sale), since Amazon now has their 2024 Holiday Return Policy in place.

crisisacting wrote: ↑02 Nov 2024, 21:33

rfbjr wrote: ↑02 Nov 2024, 21:19 Amazon return date for me Nov 8th for F4

You might actually still want to return that one & purchase another (especially if originally bought big on sale), since Amazon now has their 2024 Holiday Return Policy in place.

*Not on sale

The only update applicable to TOS 6.0.519 is 6.0.531 (which has been postponed), correct?

DCCentR wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 13:13 The only update applicable to TOS 6.0.519 is 6.0.531 (which has been postponed), correct?

Sorry, yes.

editsmith wrote: ↑30 Oct 2024, 18:33

Vaulenst wrote: ↑30 Oct 2024, 17:49 Hi,

may I ask why you have not considered OMV?
I was thinking to try another os myself, even if my knowledge is really basic; I made a research and this appear the simpler solution to me still supporting everything I need.

No reason, I just basically got sick of trying NAS software.. maybe give it and go and see if it works for you and let us know.. the easiest I found was Unraid but it has it's quirks and definitely not as fast with SAMBA as TrueNAS CORE

Hi,

well, finally I did. My knowledge is very low: I saw so many videos on youtube an read so many pages...
I was waiting for TOS 6 to be stable, but after beta 650 still was having many negative feedbacks, I decided to try.

My F423 have 20GB of ram (I added a 16B module to the standard 4GB), 1TB NVME drive and 4 SATA HDD drives (20TB, 18TB, 8TB and 3TB).

I wiped the NVME with TOS 5, and I installed PROXMOX 8.3.
Than I create a virtual machine on it with OMV 7.7.3 (2 cores, 4GB ram).
I attached all my 4 SATA drives on it (passthrought), formatted in EXT4 and configured my shares.
I kept the drives separated (no raid): I am able to unplug a drive and connect to any system capable to manage EXT4 filesystem to access my data.
I activated rsynch remote backup for the folders I care every evening.

Once my system got shares, I set myself free: I create a LXC linux container (2 cores, 8gb ram, 3gb swap) and I installed docker + portainer (a docker graphical interface).
Here I installed, as separate stacks (collections of services in containers), the following:
Plex
Jellyfin (with hardware transcoding)
A web server based on LAMP (apache-mysql-php)
qBittorrent client
A Minecraft server
Homeassistant
bitMagnet

As I saw the system was underused, I create a windows10 virtual machine (2 cores, 4gb ram) to which I can connect using remote desktop, and a linux virtual machine (Manjaro linux, 2 cores, 4 gb ram).

As for now I am happy with this.
Only recently I connected the second LAN of the NAS but I see transfer speeds kept around 260 MB/s, so I assume only one lan is working (proxmox network page added).
Need to dig this...