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The TrueNAS Hardware Guide: What Actually Matters for a Home NAS
ECC RAM, HBAs, drives, motherboards, and power. A practical hardware guide for building a TrueNAS server at home — what to splurge on and what is fine.
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TrueNAS SCALE vs CORE in 2026: Which Should You Install?
TrueNAS CORE is FreeBSD-based and battle-tested. TrueNAS SCALE is Linux-based and runs containers and VMs natively. Here is how to pick the right one for a home NAS today.
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TrueNAS Snapshot and Replication Strategy
Snapshots protect against accidents. Replication protects against fires. Here is a practical TrueNAS snapshot schedule and replication setup for a home NAS — including how often, how long, and where.
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ZFS Pool Design: RAIDZ vs Mirrors for a Home NAS
How to decide between RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2, and mirror vdevs for a home TrueNAS pool. Trade-offs in usable capacity, rebuild risk, IOPS, and what 'one big pool' really costs you.
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TrueNAS SCALE Apps: A Practical Getting-Started Guide
TrueNAS SCALE Apps let you run Plex, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and other services directly on your NAS. Here is how the app system works, how to set it up cleanly, and the patterns that prevent headaches later.
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Setting Up SMB Shares on TrueNAS SCALE
A step-by-step guide to creating SMB shares on TrueNAS SCALE — dataset layout, user permissions, ACLs, and the gotchas that make SMB look broken when it isn't.
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ZFS Performance Tuning: ARC, Recordsize, and Compression
The three ZFS tunables that actually matter for a home NAS: ARC sizing, dataset recordsize, and compression. What each does, when to change it, and what to leave alone.