The documentation at TrueNAS is really good.īoth the Intel NIC and the LSI SAS/SATA card are supported natively. Easily to change the CLI command to make it work on Mac OS:īoot the server from the thumb-drive, run the installer, follow the wizard, reboot and you really are ready.
Although TrueNas does not list Mac OS as a host in getting the ISO to the thumb-drive, there is however a listing for Linux. Setting the TrueNas system up is pretty easy, prepare a USB thumb-drive to hold the ISO to boot from. With the right velcro binders the cables are tucked away nicely. In this case a bit pointless, case is on bookshelf, next to a printer. Installing the components is really easy.Īnd the case has a window. Times have changed, the Node 804 case is similar in size to the printer I have and fits nicely next to it.
The last time I build myself a PC the case was nice on the outside, but on the inside it was a bunch of sharp edges and not that easy to create a nice clean looking setup. Long story short: I chose to get the MSI B560M PRO-VDH board. When I tested the RAM, CPU and the boot NVME ssd with the "extra" board, it worked as expected.Īlthough I got the server running, the board was just not good enough. Luckily I was able to return it as being defective. However when running with my first choice for a motherboard, I bought one that a damaged box and some minor "cosmetic" scratches and was sold as a "second" change, the board had more than just some cosmetic problems.įor me the system kept on rebooting and no video.
Well not too bad, straight a upgrade in memory to 64 GB.
With what to replace the MacMini? It might be the right time to think of a NAS And better to replace now, then wait until it crashes fully. Since the MacMini is still working pretty ok, but the specifications are a bit outdated. The MacMini (Late 2012), with a nice RAID 5 disk set attached it, running as an internal fileserver and as a media server needs to be deprecated.
However the time has come to say goodbye to the MacOS and the Apple platform as a server platform. The first steps into what turned out to be part of my profession.Īll these time I have had administrator access to one or more server(s) running on the Apple platform. Over 30 years ago I started with "playing" with a Mac in the role of server.