GaryH Tech installs WebZFS by q5sys (JT) on FreeBSD
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ePkpVMHu8> @garyhtech
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GaryH Tech installs WebZFS by q5sys (JT) on FreeBSD
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ePkpVMHu8> @garyhtech
― via <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qvi95q/garyh_tech_installs_webzfs_by_q5sys_jt_on_freebsd/>
Cc @poes
Whats your approach for VMs (in #Proxmox or any other hypervisor) with large (1-2TB) Storage needs?
Currently I have an virtual #TrueNAS (with hardware pass-thru) which provides NFS/SMB Mounts for the other VMs. But this is not always possible depending on the hardware.
And creating large vDisks feels wrong.
This week I am trying to move my #video library from #Plex running on #TrueNAS to #Jellyfin running on TrueNAS.
First impression is that Swiftfin (the AppleTV app) is not good enough. I have 500-600 films in a hierarchy of dozens of directories. Both Jellyfin and Swiftfin dump all that into a pile called #Movies. So my screen has all 500+ films in alphabetical order.
Things like Monsterdon schlocky films are right next to comedies and drama and action.
I want to see my top level folders like Comedy, Action, Kung-Fu, etc. Then I want to descend into them. I can kinda get this in the web UI, but the TV UI is determined by the app.
Other than that, I’m really enjoying it. I love the collections and the automatic figuring-stuff-out. It’s been good.
I love the lack of shoving stuff in my face. Plex of course wants to shove things into my face.
I’m downloading Infuse for #AppleTV to see if it works better.
This week I am trying to move my #video library from #Plex running on #TrueNAS to #Jellyfin running on TrueNAS.
First impression is that Swiftfin (the AppleTV app) is not good enough. I have 500-600 films in a hierarchy of dozens of directories. Both Jellyfin and Swiftfin dump all that into a pile called #Movies. So my screen has all 500+ films in alphabetical order.
Things like Monsterdon schlocky films are right next to comedies and drama and action.
I want to see my top level folders like Comedy, Action, Kung-Fu, etc. Then I want to descend into them. I can kinda get this in the web UI, but the TV UI is determined by the app.
Other than that, I’m really enjoying it. I love the collections and the automatic figuring-stuff-out. It’s been good.
I love the lack of shoving stuff in my face. Plex of course wants to shove things into my face.
I’m downloading Infuse for #AppleTV to see if it works better.
As a pretty hardcore #TrueNAS and #Plex user my jaw was on the floor reading this review of prosumer home movie server/player equipment from Kaleidescape.
This great snippet should set expectations 😂
"The $2,995/£3,399 needed for the 4K Strato E puts Kaleidescape within reach of way more people than any player before..."
And that's just for the player! You're looking at another $6k for the server, with a measly 8TB of SSD in it.
TrueNAS is an operating system designed for network-attached storage devices, but it only officially supports systems with x86_64 processors. Unofficially though, there's a new 64-bit ARM port that works on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5. #TrueNAS#NAS#ARM#RaspberryPihttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/truenas-on-arm-finally-thing
So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.
Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.
Boost ZFS Performance with a Special VDEV in TrueNAS
