Cheapskate's TrueNAS Build with 6 Drives RAID-Z2

After almost two years later, the hardware of my Openmediavault NAS is going to be upgraded from Vostro to Precision. Which is a big leap, that I don’t have to do any hardware modification to use Xeon CPUs. Thanks for my friend’s donation. This junkstation comes with E3-1245, 16GB and 4 SATA HDD port. What I added is a ASMedia 106x SATA PCIE card for 2 more SATA HDD capacity (6 HDD in total), and a PCIe to NVMe adapter for accommodating a OS drive (128GB SSD). ...

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Jun