New NAS!!

My previous NAS was an old Fujitsu tower with two Seagate Barracuda 4TB disks running in a ZFS mirror (4TB is plenty of room for my needs). It used about 25 watts at idle. Now I upgraded to a ZimaBlade 7700 NAS kit running an Intel E3950 with 16 GB RAM. A decent jump in performance from 2 to 4 cores but still around the same generation and same amount of DDR3 memory. But I went to 8 watts at idle and it is way way way smaller. Going from a full-size tower to the almost smallest size a 2-disk NAS can be. And it is still low cost.

In terms of software, I wanted away from Proxmox. It was overkill for what I need. My NAS is purely a NAS, all applications run on the Kubernetes cluster. And even if I run any application I want OCI containers, virtual machines are useless to me. So the best option to me seems TrueNAS and it is running very smoothly the first couple of weeks. The setup was also a lot easier comparted to ZFS on Proxmox. And it is better managed and I have actual visibility on my drive’s health. Overall, a huge upgrade.