Is TrueNAS overkill?

[Bingie 99]

I've been over on the TrueNAS forums all day, reading articles, and the doc pages, and I'm starting to get the feeling that TrueNAS is probably overkill for building a simple home NAS to run Emby.  They want 8GB RAM minimum just for the OS.  Even windows 10 doesn't need more than 3GB and it's bloated.  A headless Debian install is maybe a few hundred megs, less than 1GB.

I do like the fact that millions of TrueNAS servers are currently deployed, so obviously it's a good OS.  Just might be too much, wouldn't want it slowing down my Emby streams LOL

[Luke 42079]

That does seem like a high requirement, although I would guess most people are able to meet it nowadays.

[CassTG 113]

Problem is they require 8GB because of zfs caching, i set up a vm on my proxmox to see if it was worth it and it was not.

If your looking at setting up a Nas setup, and you have spare hardware, wholy recommend proxmox and then just set up several VMS or LXC to run what you need. It's quite easy to master and nice that you have increased flexibility

I.e i have my main Windows OS running as a vm, i use Xpenology as my main nas VM with some dockers there (main ones hosted in the cloud) and then have vms to play around with like Kali etc.

You could just set up a Ubuntu Minimal VM or if you don t want to use proxmox install ubuntu or debian minimal, create a few SMB shares manually and install docker, that way you can run Emby in docker as well as a whole load of fun containers to mess with

[Bingie 99]

Just now, CassTG said:

Problem is they require 8GB because of zfs caching, i set up a vm on my proxmox to see if it was worth it and it was not.

If your looking at setting up a Nas setup, and you have spare hardware, wholy recommend proxmox and then just set up several VMS or LXC to run what you need. It's quite easy to master and nice that you have increased flexibility

I.e i have my main Windows OS running as a vm, i use Xpenology as my main nas VM with some dockers there (main ones hosted in the cloud) and then have vms to play around with like Kali etc.

You could just set up a Ubuntu Minimal VM or if you don t want to use proxmox install ubuntu or debian minimal, create a few SMB shares manually and install docker, that way you can run Emby in docker as well as a whole load of fun containers to mess with

Thanks, I ended up keeping it as simple as possible... clean minimal Windows 10 Home (locked down tight with simplewall/windows10debloater) and Emby.  A few monitoring utilities, daily backup utility, remote monitoring, that's it.  Done.  Uses 2-3GB RAM at peak, with 2 transcodes going.  Couldn't be happier.