Terramasters OS placing a limit on how much *free software* I can download & install from the *”community”* site is such an immediate dealbreaker for me. Can’t imagine that anybody spending thousands of dollars (after drives) on a NAS like this, with even a little technical know-how, is going to put up with that.
@ That’s what I mean- who would keep Terramaster OS? They should either include a “pro” license with a product of this tier or create a different distro so they can use this simpler OS for their smaller 2/4 bay NAS devices that are more likely to be purchased by people who are more likely to want the plug-n-play option.
Yikes. Even after paying 1800$ for a piece of hardware, they're still trying to draw out more money from their customers? If I was thinking of using this at any point. thats gone now. Even if installing alternate OS is a thing. Its the principal from the company thats a deal breaker.
The cost of this is not bad at all. By the time you build new, it's pretty close the same cost. More than enough power to run quite a few containers which in a homelab are mostly idle most of the time.
Eh, only if you want this exact thing and are allergic to aliexpress or better yet refurb servers. I have an HPE ML350 G10 which I would argue is a far superior playroom for homelabbing in every conceivable way, and a lot of inconceivable ways. Over 50 CPU cores and 3,5TB RAM max, slots for whatever you wish from GPU's to fancy network to fiberchannel and SAS, redundant power supplies, lights out management etc. Base config refurb ML350 is like 700 if you look around a bit. Obviously your choice of toppings and sauce are on top of that, but you can have up to 12x3,5" drives, or mix like I do and have 2,5" SSD's and 15k rpm drives for things you need to be a bit faster, and 3,5" for bulk storage. Obviously a fully crammed ML350 is going to be more $$ than this thing but it will also be orders of magnitude faster and more useful. At only a bit larger physically than this thing, the ML350 is like a tower PC but just 50-60% longer/deeper. And it's quiet too, which I did not expect.
I run the 9 bay version with the Atom C3558 CPU. I’ve got TrueNAS Scale booting off a mirror of USB3 sticks, I’ve two NVMe drives in it for Dockers and VMs, and a heap of 12TB Toshiba N300 for my “Linux ISOs”. Oh, and a Quadro P400 crammed in for transcoding via Emby. (You need a riser cable and take the bracket off the GPU and mount it with really thick 3M VHB tape). It works great. Been solid for about 6 months now.
I have two TerraMaster D6-320 units hooked up to a MINISFORUM BD790i via USB (10gb), the BD790i is running Proxmox and the drives are in 2 ZFS clusters. I also dropped a X540 in the BD790i. It's getting 800k transfers and has been rock solid since July
@@jacobnoori true for me it's just a low powered way to access lots of data,I have another two with all the bells and whistles Server,you always backup Three Times at least.
There is such a need for medium sized desktop NAS cases. There are a lot of good options for 1-4 drives with mini ITX board. I have been looking for something with 8+ drives, microATX or ATX, backplane, no rack mount. Very few options, most are very expensive.
I love me some forbidden router! Great advice, reminding people to memory testing if going off script with RAM. Great content, oh wise computer janitor.
How good Terramaster is with proxmox clusters which is one of the key things. I am thrilled that I was able to purchase it today for $1699.99. I'm eager to try out my T12-500 pro and expect to set up my home server.😉
I use the backup buddy system. My Brother and I both use TrueNAS, but I also backup to Backblaze B2. However, I am thinking about whether or not I really do need the Backblaze B2 cloud backup on top of that.
A couple of quick comments. The USB thumb drive that Terra-master seems to use now is horrendously slow. I pulled the original from my 424 Pro and used Balenaetcher to clone it to a Sandisk Ultra Fit CZ43 (original is only 4gb so you don't need a large one and the Ultra Fit fits in the confined space of the 424 pro). Using a different thumb drive showed a dramatic improvement in system boot time. This also appears to have plenty of room for a variety of thumb drive lengths, unlike the 424 pro. With this unit, I'd likely suggest getting some m.2 ssd coolers that have a fan, such as the Thermaltake MS-1 (you supposedly can even replace the fan on it should it fail) or the Thermalright HR10 (note I don't know if this will fit in this model, verify clearance). Just eyeballing the setup in the video, I'd probably lean towards the Thermaltake and install them so that they exhaust air in the same airflow direction as the case fans. The cpu cooler's vanes appear at first glance to provide some airflow over the memory (and not the m.2 slots), with the possibility of fan headers, some additional airflow over the memory might be nice, though I'm not sure what that setup might be. I'd be interested to know if that slot is actually pcie. My guess is that it is and that its intended to work with a pcie to m.2 adapter to provide more than 2 if desired. It would be interesting to see if there's enough room in them to sneak in a small video low power draw video card or a new/replacement network card like and x550 or similar. Either of those options though may require some interesting placement and with the network card, altering the chasis to get access to its ports.
Honestly not bad as a data-centered PVE machine. I could see 4 enterprise SATA 4TB drives for ceph, and 8 HDD's for bulk storage in this thing. And yes, it would be a good PBS server, probably overkill actually because of the efficiency that PBS has when making backups. TM stuff is a bit too customized for my DIY itch, but I have put a few of their boxes to use in my homelab, including the F8, and they seem pretty solid. If you need some good VM performance, I'd look elsewhere, as even under the config I spec'd above the CPU and memory would be at the limit. Wish list: SAS3 would have been nice, especially for bigger business use tho I understand why. Better memory compatibility for sure is a big one. And once you're talking 100W range you're out of the SFF mini-PC world, so a better CPU with ECC is kinda big on my list too. Oh, and a single PCIe externally accessible slot - c'mon TM!
I'm probably in the minority on this one but I actually despise tooless drive trays. A lot of them feel cheap/flimsy and don't do a good job of actually securing the drive. This can cause vibration noise and possibly contribute to premature drive failure. I'm not saying there aren't good ones out there, but they seem to be the exception to the rule (at least in consumer/prosumer chassis) from my personal experience.
Do wish I could just get a nice case with SAS/SATA 24x 3.5 bays that accepts standard components that doesn't cost a right arm and a leg. I mean hot-swap is nice, but I would also be OK with plugging in SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 cables as long as the bays were easy enough to deal with and it brought the cost down to like 150 ish (without cables naturally). I don't even care if it takes up 6 or even 8 rack units although, larger rarely means cheaper, I mostly mean that I am flexible.
Can the 1255u use more ram than the specs on Intel Arc state (64GB)? I assume the BIOS is showing installed ram, not necessarily the amount usable by the processor
I always appreciate your (Wendell's) reviews, so this is not a criticism of the review itself, but I can't help but sit here thinking how much better of a system (w/o drives) you could build for $1800
To be fair, the type of people who’d get this are either businesses who don’t know how to build their own or are IT technicians who want to set it and forget it. And that latter one can often pay itself off fairly quickly
@@majoryoshi yep, like small companies who have to deal with a lot of data, but doenst want to pay an it person to manage things, or only has an offsite it perso, who occasionally helps them over teamviewer. they just buy it, hide it in a cloest, and pay 2-3 hours for the it person to set it up, and doesnt think about that for years. like an accounting office, who has to keep several years of records at hand, or like a designer studio, where people work excessively with computer data, but not pros in hgardvare, like photographesrs or designers doing adobe suite joibs.
Just knowing how isn't enough. You can connect all the stuff but there are a ton of noob mistakes and pitfalls you can wind up in that would cause more pain than spending a couple hundred more. This is why these pre qualified systems are so popular. Also why Synology is so popular.
Why would you build a server without ECC memory? Something like an AMD Ryzen Pro 8000G series CPU seems more appropriate. Is fairly powerful, low power and supports ECC.
ecc support is overpraised. most off the shelf nas solutions synology, qnap asustor doesnt has ecc in there, yet they do fine. hence even on the diy side, even the zfs creators say that ecc is not necesary bc the file system will catch ram errors, it's just a nice to have. with this mentallity why don't we only build desktop pc's with ecc ram. at the and we are working on them with the data, we can easily save back corrupted data.
Quote from Matt Ahrens, one of the ZFS creators: 'If you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS.' ZFS will catch it if a memory error occurs during a read but if it happens during a write, it will very persistently argue that a defective file is all good.
@@martin_soerensen Use Teracopy and set it to always validate. It compares the file on your drive, writes the file, then compares the checksum of the written file before either closing the file (copy) or deleting it (move/cut).
I have the 6 bay version of this the T6-423. The native terramaster software ( TOS 6.X currently) is truely aweful for many many reasons. I installed TrueNas scale on mine now its come to life. Great hardware sorely made lacking by terramasters own software.
id probably just run truenas scale, since everything is docker-based as of the latest update. plenty of tutorials out there, but it just ends up being a zfs array with an smb share for media and a mount for jellyfin/plex/emby
@@fujinshu Considering Unraid locks stuff behind a premium version and Truenas scale doesn't, I find that a bit funny. Scale and unraid both support docker containers. Truenas uses a more performant filesystem, but unraid allows parity when using drives of differing sizes, which is a big plus if you don't buy matching drives. Unraid has a bit of a simpler UI, but setup will only differ by an hour or two
i worry less about chinese security threats than NSA zero-day exploits. For the most part, the chinese stuff can be overcome with proper security and in this case, OS replacement. But the NSA stuff is baked in, and given their actions and control over American's lives, I'd worry more about them than the chinese if I were an American.
@@RRYYLT I think China is interested in all, even the times that I visit the toilet. In short, eventhough, we mostly have nothing to hide, yet you do not want the world to know everything? Thanks for all the insights.
Should run okay-ish, but the limited P-core count will kinda hamper things, though it depends on what you want to use Server for. File serving, mid size AD, DNS, DHCP etc will all be fine. Heavy Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange etc will be out
12:27 it's not "anywhere from 9€ a year to 49€ a year" - it's from 9€ a MONTH to 49€ a year. That is not a small difference, it is 1200% or instead of 9€ a year it is 108€ a year. So yee. Can't say I'm not paying attention in class, can ya 😉
Who can be bothered with this at its high cost as you might as well buy a renewed server. Plenty, I suppose, given the sales of turnkey solutions. Don't get it myself.
Most home brew people are about not using expensive hardware. Some people are willing, I personally am not. But that said, to each their own. Hardware like this, plus the HDDs on top of it, is a no go for me. Its one of the reason why I use unraid ( I know not the best... ) as I have so many mismatched drives and sizes, that its perfect for the hardware I own. But I also like to build and tinker. so a ready made isn't my style either. still 1800$ is a bit too much.
No. Home labs are mainly for people with no sponsors and no money trying to stay relevant. The high dollar stuff on these tech channels is always way out of the diy home lab community's league.
Ngl i dont understand all the tailscale hype/talk. Feels like a glorified tunneling solution like ngrok? Like literally not much different and still charges you per device and no forever license as far as I know.
at the scale hobbyists use it its free, it uses p2p wireguard so it is very performant (a lot of other mesh overlay vpns i tried had horrible latencies/troughput, sometimes 10-15ms added in LAN alone), theres a nice central place of peers/acls/devices, it has foss clients for every relevant os, its nat traversal works very nicely, its access controls are nice and easy, its built-in dns tends to just work and if you really want (like i do) you can selfhost the only non foss part (the control server) by using a third party foss reimplementation of it called headscale and just like, dont care what the licensing or prices are forever (the official clients all support setting a custom control server url, no hacks/patches needed). not sure whats not to like especially when you are plagued by aggressive cgnats everywhere you travel and want a p2p vpn that can deal with almost any nat
Terramasters OS placing a limit on how much *free software* I can download & install from the *”community”* site is such an immediate dealbreaker for me. Can’t imagine that anybody spending thousands of dollars (after drives) on a NAS like this, with even a little technical know-how, is going to put up with that.
I didnt, i got rid of TOS altogether after the "upgrade" to 6.X and replaced it with TrueNas scale.
@ That’s what I mean- who would keep Terramaster OS? They should either include a “pro” license with a product of this tier or create a different distro so they can use this simpler OS for their smaller 2/4 bay NAS devices that are more likely to be purchased by people who are more likely to want the plug-n-play option.
My thoughts exactly especially when installing docker and NFS is so easy and free on a linux system
Yikes. Even after paying 1800$ for a piece of hardware, they're still trying to draw out more money from their customers?
If I was thinking of using this at any point. thats gone now. Even if installing alternate OS is a thing. Its the principal from the company thats a deal breaker.
yep that's such utter crap. immediate "install truenas" moment
I was eyeing this for an off-site backup for my personal homeserver.
12:20 killed that idea dead in its tracks.
Just install another OS.
The cost of this is not bad at all. By the time you build new, it's pretty close the same cost. More than enough power to run quite a few containers which in a homelab are mostly idle most of the time.
Eh, only if you want this exact thing and are allergic to aliexpress or better yet refurb servers. I have an HPE ML350 G10 which I would argue is a far superior playroom for homelabbing in every conceivable way, and a lot of inconceivable ways. Over 50 CPU cores and 3,5TB RAM max, slots for whatever you wish from GPU's to fancy network to fiberchannel and SAS, redundant power supplies, lights out management etc. Base config refurb ML350 is like 700 if you look around a bit. Obviously your choice of toppings and sauce are on top of that, but you can have up to 12x3,5" drives, or mix like I do and have 2,5" SSD's and 15k rpm drives for things you need to be a bit faster, and 3,5" for bulk storage. Obviously a fully crammed ML350 is going to be more $$ than this thing but it will also be orders of magnitude faster and more useful. At only a bit larger physically than this thing, the ML350 is like a tower PC but just 50-60% longer/deeper. And it's quiet too, which I did not expect.
I run the 9 bay version with the Atom C3558 CPU. I’ve got TrueNAS Scale booting off a mirror of USB3 sticks, I’ve two NVMe drives in it for Dockers and VMs, and a heap of 12TB Toshiba N300 for my “Linux ISOs”. Oh, and a Quadro P400 crammed in for transcoding via Emby. (You need a riser cable and take the bracket off the GPU and mount it with really thick 3M VHB tape). It works great. Been solid for about 6 months now.
I have two TerraMaster D6-320 units hooked up to a MINISFORUM BD790i via USB (10gb), the BD790i is running Proxmox and the drives are in 2 ZFS clusters. I also dropped a X540 in the BD790i. It's getting 800k transfers and has been rock solid since July
Did you get the full fat BD790i or the SE model? I've seen people mention errors reported on the NVMe slot next to the CPU in the full fat version.
Works well, pretty much got same setup ,just D8 instead, Pretty much win ,Win power and performance wise.
Sure it works but it's not recommended.
@@jacobnoori true for me it's just a low powered way to access lots of data,I have another two with all the bells and whistles Server,you always backup Three Times at least.
Man, I just want the case.
There is such a need for medium sized desktop NAS cases. There are a lot of good options for 1-4 drives with mini ITX board. I have been looking for something with 8+ drives, microATX or ATX, backplane, no rack mount. Very few options, most are very expensive.
I love me some forbidden router! Great advice, reminding people to memory testing if going off script with RAM. Great content, oh wise computer janitor.
So glad you put the price at the start of the video so I didn't have to waste time watching :)
I'd rather grab the 15-drive homelab case off 45Homelab and put a dinky Atom-equipped Supermicro mobo in there to keep power levels low. With ECC REG.
Bugs me there's not an N100 or N305 version that supports ECC.
yeah ddr5 was a stupid choice
@@EkiToji They would sell!
Thanks especially for the PROTIPs on BIOS tweaks for Proxmox setup :)
How good Terramaster is with proxmox clusters which is one of the key things. I am thrilled that I was able to purchase it today for $1699.99. I'm eager to try out my T12-500 pro and expect to set up my home server.😉
3:21 I cracked up at the pop sound effect. 😂
I use the backup buddy system. My Brother and I both use TrueNAS, but I also backup to Backblaze B2. However, I am thinking about whether or not I really do need the Backblaze B2 cloud backup on top of that.
A couple of quick comments.
The USB thumb drive that Terra-master seems to use now is horrendously slow. I pulled the original from my 424 Pro and used Balenaetcher to clone it to a Sandisk Ultra Fit CZ43 (original is only 4gb so you don't need a large one and the Ultra Fit fits in the confined space of the 424 pro). Using a different thumb drive showed a dramatic improvement in system boot time. This also appears to have plenty of room for a variety of thumb drive lengths, unlike the 424 pro.
With this unit, I'd likely suggest getting some m.2 ssd coolers that have a fan, such as the Thermaltake MS-1 (you supposedly can even replace the fan on it should it fail) or the Thermalright HR10 (note I don't know if this will fit in this model, verify clearance). Just eyeballing the setup in the video, I'd probably lean towards the Thermaltake and install them so that they exhaust air in the same airflow direction as the case fans.
The cpu cooler's vanes appear at first glance to provide some airflow over the memory (and not the m.2 slots), with the possibility of fan headers, some additional airflow over the memory might be nice, though I'm not sure what that setup might be.
I'd be interested to know if that slot is actually pcie. My guess is that it is and that its intended to work with a pcie to m.2 adapter to provide more than 2 if desired. It would be interesting to see if there's enough room in them to sneak in a small video low power draw video card or a new/replacement network card like and x550 or similar. Either of those options though may require some interesting placement and with the network card, altering the chasis to get access to its ports.
Honestly not bad as a data-centered PVE machine. I could see 4 enterprise SATA 4TB drives for ceph, and 8 HDD's for bulk storage in this thing. And yes, it would be a good PBS server, probably overkill actually because of the efficiency that PBS has when making backups. TM stuff is a bit too customized for my DIY itch, but I have put a few of their boxes to use in my homelab, including the F8, and they seem pretty solid. If you need some good VM performance, I'd look elsewhere, as even under the config I spec'd above the CPU and memory would be at the limit. Wish list: SAS3 would have been nice, especially for bigger business use tho I understand why. Better memory compatibility for sure is a big one. And once you're talking 100W range you're out of the SFF mini-PC world, so a better CPU with ECC is kinda big on my list too. Oh, and a single PCIe externally accessible slot - c'mon TM!
I can't wait to build my very first homelab without any experience soon, it will be much more diy than this though lol
I feel like old PC with Truenas Scale is more my speed :D
I can even get more drives with some sas controllers
Man I was having bit time deja vu until I copped its a different model in the series.
I would love for you to do a deep dive on the TerraMaster operating system and when I say deep dive I mean deep code level deep
I'm probably in the minority on this one but I actually despise tooless drive trays. A lot of them feel cheap/flimsy and don't do a good job of actually securing the drive. This can cause vibration noise and possibly contribute to premature drive failure. I'm not saying there aren't good ones out there, but they seem to be the exception to the rule (at least in consumer/prosumer chassis) from my personal experience.
icydock has nice ones,however you can also use screws. thermaltake had nice ones 10 years ago,no clue if they still do.
What is happening in the background? I can hear either a jackhammer or a Roto hammer. What is going on at the office today?
Funny how you installed 2x1TB T-Create NVMe drives but they show up a Samsung with have the capacity.
Do wish I could just get a nice case with SAS/SATA 24x 3.5 bays that accepts standard components that doesn't cost a right arm and a leg. I mean hot-swap is nice, but I would also be OK with plugging in SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 cables as long as the bays were easy enough to deal with and it brought the cost down to like 150 ish (without cables naturally). I don't even care if it takes up 6 or even 8 rack units although, larger rarely means cheaper, I mostly mean that I am flexible.
neat
Can the 1255u use more ram than the specs on Intel Arc state (64GB)? I assume the BIOS is showing installed ram, not necessarily the amount usable by the processor
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13:37 Lessons from Linus ;)
I always appreciate your (Wendell's) reviews, so this is not a criticism of the review itself, but I can't help but sit here thinking how much better of a system (w/o drives) you could build for $1800
To be fair, the type of people who’d get this are either businesses who don’t know how to build their own or are IT technicians who want to set it and forget it. And that latter one can often pay itself off fairly quickly
@@majoryoshi yep, like small companies who have to deal with a lot of data, but doenst want to pay an it person to manage things, or only has an offsite it perso, who occasionally helps them over teamviewer. they just buy it, hide it in a cloest, and pay 2-3 hours for the it person to set it up, and doesnt think about that for years.
like an accounting office, who has to keep several years of records at hand, or like a designer studio, where people work excessively with computer data, but not pros in hgardvare, like photographesrs or designers doing adobe suite joibs.
Just knowing how isn't enough. You can connect all the stuff but there are a ton of noob mistakes and pitfalls you can wind up in that would cause more pain than spending a couple hundred more. This is why these pre qualified systems are so popular. Also why Synology is so popular.
Why would you build a server without ECC memory? Something like an AMD Ryzen Pro 8000G series CPU seems more appropriate. Is fairly powerful, low power and supports ECC.
ecc support is overpraised. most off the shelf nas solutions synology, qnap asustor doesnt has ecc in there, yet they do fine.
hence even on the diy side, even the zfs creators say that ecc is not necesary bc the file system will catch ram errors, it's just a nice to have.
with this mentallity why don't we only build desktop pc's with ecc ram. at the and we are working on them with the data, we can easily save back corrupted data.
Quote from Matt Ahrens, one of the ZFS creators: 'If you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS.'
ZFS will catch it if a memory error occurs during a read but if it happens during a write, it will very persistently argue that a defective file is all good.
@@ianhuumy Synology runs ecc, and it's an old ds918+
I picked up a Ryzen 4650GE Pro on ebay for that very purpose. $86!
@@martin_soerensen Use Teracopy and set it to always validate.
It compares the file on your drive, writes the file, then compares the checksum of the written file before either closing the file (copy) or deleting it (move/cut).
Would those ethernet chipsets be supported in Opnsense? If one were to to say run it in a virtual machine within Proxmox or Truenas?
Depends on if you are using passthrough so that OpnSense is seeing the Aquantia chips, or if you are using the VirtIO virtual networks cards.
I have the 6 bay version of this the T6-423. The native terramaster software ( TOS 6.X currently) is truely aweful for many many reasons. I installed TrueNas scale on mine now its come to life. Great hardware sorely made lacking by terramasters own software.
Any chance of showing how to set it up with the built-in VPN client?
Using Tailscale is going to be easier and more secure than using the builtin VPN. Tailscale is almost zero configuration.
@@yramagicman675 Is Tailscale a client for VPN? I'm not looking for access into the NAS. I'm looking for VPN access out of the NAS.
Nice
ayyo what's the best distro for a simple home media server?
id probably just run truenas scale, since everything is docker-based as of the latest update.
plenty of tutorials out there, but it just ends up being a zfs array with an smb share for media and a mount for jellyfin/plex/emby
TrueNAS Scale if you are willing to learn and can spend money on software.
Otherwise I’d pick UnRAID, since it’s MUCH simpler to use.
@@fujinshu Considering Unraid locks stuff behind a premium version and Truenas scale doesn't, I find that a bit funny.
Scale and unraid both support docker containers. Truenas uses a more performant filesystem, but unraid allows parity when using drives of differing sizes, which is a big plus if you don't buy matching drives.
Unraid has a bit of a simpler UI, but setup will only differ by an hour or two
What's up with Wendell's mom photos on his desk?
The golden girls raised a good son 🤗
Wood.
Parts are about as underpowered as current Synology. Software?
Thanks for you view on it..
With this kind of hardware from China, I am always affraid of backdoors. Or is that pure fantasy?
i worry less about chinese security threats than NSA zero-day exploits. For the most part, the chinese stuff can be overcome with proper security and in this case, OS replacement. But the NSA stuff is baked in, and given their actions and control over American's lives, I'd worry more about them than the chinese if I were an American.
@@badandy2021 I am not an American. I was thinking about it hardware build-in by the Chinese. I consider all backdoors bad/
I appreciate your answer.
It seems that you have some sensitive data that the Chinese government is interested in, haha.
@@RRYYLT I think China is interested in all, even the times that I visit the toilet.
In short, eventhough, we mostly have nothing to hide, yet you do not want the world to know everything?
Thanks for all the insights.
I wonder how well something like this would run Windows Server 2022/2025.
Should run okay-ish, but the limited P-core count will kinda hamper things, though it depends on what you want to use Server for. File serving, mid size AD, DNS, DHCP etc will all be fine. Heavy Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange etc will be out
I am interested in this might help me make a tiny rack
12:27 it's not "anywhere from 9€ a year to 49€ a year" - it's from 9€ a MONTH to 49€ a year. That is not a small difference, it is 1200% or instead of 9€ a year it is 108€ a year. So yee. Can't say I'm not paying attention in class, can ya 😉
Wow
Where is your LTT screwdriver?
Vworp is a cutie
I don't have any interest in the product, but I like listening to Wendell.
Ha! you recycled the footage from the 4-Bay model when looking at TOS.
Will it run Unraid?
Who can be bothered with this at its high cost as you might as well buy a renewed server. Plenty, I suppose, given the sales of turnkey solutions. Don't get it myself.
the license for a proxmox backup server is $$$$
You don't need one unless you want support.
It's too bad Terra Master's name and logo both look like a straight rip of Cooler Master. I can't take their offerings seriously.
Lol for 2 grand I think I can find something a bit better for my use case.
Time-gating/Pay-walling community downloads, oooof.
Most home brew people are about not using expensive hardware. Some people are willing, I personally am not. But that said, to each their own. Hardware like this, plus the HDDs on top of it, is a no go for me. Its one of the reason why I use unraid ( I know not the best... ) as I have so many mismatched drives and sizes, that its perfect for the hardware I own. But I also like to build and tinker. so a ready made isn't my style either.
still 1800$ is a bit too much.
Casting shade on Java devs is totally justified.
Can't use it for Java until they release an update for that 64 gb memory limit 😅
@@HyenaEmpyema LMAO
No. Home labs are mainly for people with no sponsors and no money trying to stay relevant. The high dollar stuff on these tech channels is always way out of the diy home lab community's league.
No ECC, no thank you!
Seems dumb that they picked DDR5 for this.
Ngl i dont understand all the tailscale hype/talk. Feels like a glorified tunneling solution like ngrok? Like literally not much different and still charges you per device and no forever license as far as I know.
at the scale hobbyists use it its free, it uses p2p wireguard so it is very performant (a lot of other mesh overlay vpns i tried had horrible latencies/troughput, sometimes 10-15ms added in LAN alone), theres a nice central place of peers/acls/devices, it has foss clients for every relevant os, its nat traversal works very nicely, its access controls are nice and easy, its built-in dns tends to just work and if you really want (like i do) you can selfhost the only non foss part (the control server) by using a third party foss reimplementation of it called headscale and just like, dont care what the licensing or prices are forever (the official clients all support setting a custom control server url, no hacks/patches needed).
not sure whats not to like especially when you are plagued by aggressive cgnats everywhere you travel and want a p2p vpn that can deal with almost any nat
I think he really HAS been drinking. I hope you're okay Wendel. Wishing you my best