Tech Nerd Ramblings

[notabitail]

This is how I'm transferring my stuff. Computer to handle the transfer, and the two NAS systems, all connected to a switch.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I also did get that new cooler for my tower. 30-40C idle and about 70-80C under full load.
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I have no idea how on earth to get these cables hidden nicely. This case is kinda bad for cable management. Good thing the side panel hides most of it.

Eh, just zip tie or velcro wrap them neatly so they look like an effort was made. sometimes there's nothning you can do

 

[notabitail]

It turns out I was using a cable that had issues with Gigabit Ethernet... Swapped the cable and now it's going faster than 80 hours to transfer my photos.

 

[notabitail]

I guess this beats 80 hours...

ZFS on TrueNAS seems to be using up all of the RAM. I suppose more RAM is in order for this machine.

 

[notabitail]

I finally got the thing all set up.

Yesterday was spent trying to get Immich to restore from a backup. The TrueNAS version didn't want to do so, and I semi-accidentally fried the working install on the old NAS, so I did a clean install.

From there I had to get Snipe-IT up (having too much tech stuff leads to this...). It was painfully easy and hard. I couldn't figure out how TrueNAS's docker installer works, so I tried to do it the sane way through its terminal. That didn't work. I ended up finding out you can do "containers" in it, so I went that way. I had some odd issues with getting it set up, but copying over the contents of the docker compose and env from my old server worked. I spent way too much time on that.

So far it seems to be fine. Streaming video from it (via VLC) is much smoother than the old one. The old one would stutter at times, and this one seems to refrain from doing so.

The only other thing I did was toss my retirement fund 16GB of DDR3 RAM into it. I had put 8GB, but figured 16GB would probably be better for its performance. It does seem to be taking advantage of it.

 

[notabitail]

I finally got the thing all set up.

Yesterday was spent trying to get Immich to restore from a backup. The TrueNAS version didn't want to do so, and I semi-accidentally fried the working install on the old NAS, so I did a clean install.

From there I had to get Snipe-IT up (having too much tech stuff leads to this...). It was painfully easy and hard. I couldn't figure out how TrueNAS's docker installer works, so I tried to do it the sane way through its terminal. That didn't work. I ended up finding out you can do "containers" in it, so I went that way. I had some odd issues with getting it set up, but copying over the contents of the docker compose and env from my old server worked. I spent way too much time on that.

So far it seems to be fine. Streaming video from it (via VLC) is much smoother than the old one. The old one would stutter at times, and this one seems to refrain from doing so.

The only other thing I did was toss my retirement fund 16GB of DDR3 RAM into it. I had put 8GB, but figured 16GB would probably be better for its performance. It does seem to be taking advantage of it.

I also got my laptop upgraded to the latest Kubuntu. Poor thing has been bugging me about it for ages.

And Discover (KDE app store) finally works again. That app is usually pretty buggy for me though.