I've been running TrueNAS for years on commodity hardware that's been upcycled from my personal workstation after major upgrades. Current iteration is: a skyla

I've been running TrueNAS for years on commodity hardware that's been upcycled from my personal workstation after major upgrades. Current iteration is: a skylake era CPU, 16 gb ddr4, 4x 14TB WD Reds, 2x 512 GB SSD, and a m.2 boot drive Used primarily for shared storage, backups, media serving, and lightweight docker containers (home assistant, git tea, etc) in an Ubuntu VM. It's been super stable (paired with a UPS) and was surprisingly economical for what it is. I've also learned a lot in the process. I do wish my CPU had a few more cores though.