TrueNAS Update

It’s been over a year since I first mentioned testing out TrueNAS and uh, over a year since the last update. Sometimes no news is good news, or no updates means things got boring because they just work. I had one little issue with the TrueNAS server. One of the boot SSD drives died. Now, that was not a big deal, because I had two of them. I did worry about just running one of them though, so I got a spare and dropped it into place. I also added a bunch more drive months ago so there are now two separate pools. Overall as a file server it’s been great. I also use it for Time Machine backups for a few Macs in the house. The OpenMediaVault server was working well until… the boot SSD started to fail. It limped along for a while, throwing a lot of errors, and my plan was to drop in a new SSD but then I had surgery and still haven’t had time to deal with it. I guess the lesson there is that having a backup boot SSD is definitely a good thing! I did lose a few things I had set up for…