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> I wonder why all the content creators use TrueNAS. Because they're content creators, not ZFS tuners. It's plug and play. It makes it easy to have some redund

> I wonder why all the content creators use TrueNAS. Because they're content creators, not ZFS tuners. It's plug and play. It makes it easy to have some redundancy and do backups.

geerlingguy 3y ago
This, basically. I need storage to work, and I don't have enough time to get into ZFS's guts unless I'm going to do a video or longer blog post on a specific topic. TrueNAS gives sane defaults, exposes most of the basic features through a (relatively sane) UI, and... works. I still use ADM on my older spinning disk NASes, though—RAID 10 just works, and is fast enough for what I need, and the fact I have three copies of everything (one 'offline' (ish) on Glacier Deep Archive) means if I do ever encounter a corrupted file, I can grab a copy from one of the other backups on different media. If you're a storage nerd / data hoarder, then it's common to spend more time and go deeper than what something like TrueNAS or some other UI gives you. Otherwise it's like the McDonald's of storage software.
- yoshamano 3y ago
  > Otherwise it's like the McDonald's of storage software. This is why I use TrueNAS. I use Core instead of Scale though because I prefer FreeBSD. Its main job is to hold my ripped media library and run Plex. If I can glue other stuff to it (like an Ubuntu Server VM running Pi-Hole) then that's just an added bonus.
dark-star 3y ago
Either that, or (more likely I'd argue), because they're getting paid for promoting TrueNAS
- geerlingguy 3y ago
  I've never seen a dime from TrueNAS, but I can't speak for other content creators. I am explicit about my sponsorship, and will always mark a video and add information in both the video itself and the description disclosing exactly the relationship I have with any sponsoring vendor. See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships
- parl_match 3y ago
  [citation needed]

> I wonder why all the content creators use TrueNAS. Because they're content creators, not ZFS tuners. It's plug and play. It makes it easy to have some redundancy and do backups.

geerlingguy 3y ago

This, basically. I need storage to work, and I don't have enough time to get into ZFS's guts unless I'm going to do a video or longer blog post on a specific topic. TrueNAS gives sane defaults, exposes most of the basic features through a (relatively sane) UI, and... works. I still use ADM on my older spinning disk NASes, though—RAID 10 just works, and is fast enough for what I need, and the fact I have three copies of everything (one 'offline' (ish) on Glacier Deep Archive) means if I do ever encounter a corrupted file, I can grab a copy from one of the other backups on different media. If you're a storage nerd / data hoarder, then it's common to spend more time and go deeper than what something like TrueNAS or some other UI gives you. Otherwise it's like the McDonald's of storage software.

yoshamano 3y ago
> Otherwise it's like the McDonald's of storage software. This is why I use TrueNAS. I use Core instead of Scale though because I prefer FreeBSD. Its main job is to hold my ripped media library and run Plex. If I can glue other stuff to it (like an Ubuntu Server VM running Pi-Hole) then that's just an added bonus.

dark-star 3y ago

Either that, or (more likely I'd argue), because they're getting paid for promoting TrueNAS

geerlingguy 3y ago
I've never seen a dime from TrueNAS, but I can't speak for other content creators. I am explicit about my sponsorship, and will always mark a video and add information in both the video itself and the description disclosing exactly the relationship I have with any sponsoring vendor. See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships
parl_match 3y ago
[citation needed]