This is my first time building a NAS server, so I recorded my parts selection and installing TrueNAS. 0:00 - Intro 0:39 - Fractal Design Node 304 Case 1:34 - ASUS Prime A320I-K mini-ITX motherboard 3:46 - AMD Athlon 3000G CPU 4:40 - Kingston A400 M.2 SSD (OS drive) 5:18 - Toshiba N300 8 TB x 2 (data drive) 6:44 - Seagate Ironwolf 8 TB x 2 (data drive) 7:26 - Avoid SMR drives 7:59 - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB x 2 RAM 8:09 - EVA 500 BQ 500W PSU 8:23 - Completed build 8:47 - Connecting TinyPilot Voyager 2 10:00 - First boot 11:04 - Installing TrueNAS 15:28 - Access TrueNAS web interface 16:06 - Creating our first ZFS pool 17:15 - Creating a ZFS dataset 17:54 - Sharing a ZFS dataset over the network with Samba I used TinyPilot Voyager 2 PoE to mount the TrueNAS disk image on my server to do the initial install and configuration, as it allowed me to provision the server without ever connecting a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. https://tinypilotk
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