BEFORE Installing TrueNAS

In this video I discuss some things to do before building a NAS. TrueNAS Scale has some great options, such as ARC, L2ARC and SLOG, but they can be confusing and impact your buying decisions.
This is part 1 of a series whereby I will go through the install and setup process of TrueNAS Scale.
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00:00 Intro
01:23 Primary use of NAS
02:31 Types of Data
03:54 Pools and VDEVs
04:39 Networking Speed Requirements
06:01 RAID Z2, Mirroring, Data Redundancy
07:42 Backups, Snapshots & Redundancy
09:02 Read Performance - ARC, L2ARC (Caching)
12:50 Write Performance - SLOG, ZIL, VDEVs
17:02 Secondary NAS Use Considerations
18:08 Cost Considerations, My Setup
19:15 Comparison of 2 System Setup Scenarios
23:41 Outro
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