JJozzieTech·Oct 13The storage failure that was actually an ARP raceThe Windows workload client lost its TrueNAS shares one Thursday morning. Red-X on every drive mapped to that specific server. Mappings to…
Umair·Oct 3I Switched From InfluxDB to VictoriaMetrics and Cut Storage From 22.75 MB to 11 MB a DayI had been using InfluxDB and Grafana to monitor my TrueNAS server, but the setup was starting to feel unnecessarily complicated. The…
Pras' Labs: The Hands-On Engineer·Oct 1Day 2 with my custom build NAS server for the homelabA clicking noise issue that turns into deep dive troubleshooting
JJozzieTech·Sep 22Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storageThe plan was a network change with a storage flavour. Move a Windows workload and two TrueNAS servers off the legacy flat network and onto…
Mathieu Grzybek·Sep 13Migrating a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL Cluster to a New StorageClass — Without Planned DowntimeHow I moved a PostgreSQL workload from local Kubernetes storage to TrueNAS-backed iSCSI using PostgreSQL streaming replication
JJozzieTech·Aug 11Recovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single diskThe same outage that suspended the first pool also took down a second pool on the same box in a different, harder way. That’s the piece the…
JJozzieTech·Aug 4After a TrueNAS ISO reinstall — the two things that broke that no one warned me aboutThe TrueNAS SCALE machine that runs my SMB shares was in trouble. Windows clients had stopped seeing the shares reliably — intermittent at…
JJozzieTech·Jul 21Two TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One’s on CORE, one’s on SCALE.
Mr.PlanB·Jul 1The TrueNAS Breakup: When Keeping the ZFS Pool Feels Safer Than Starting CleanThere’s a special kind of frustration that comes from building a NAS because you want control, then discovering the appliance has opinions…
