Operating on a custom NAS setup
Operating on a custom NAS setup
Hi, I hope you can assist with your NAS project. I’ve been watching the video “This blows away the competition - JONSBO N1 NAS Build” and made some adjustments to the setup shown. I’m using: power supply Corsair SF450 Platinium, CPU Intel Core i3 12100, motherboard ASRock H670M-ITX/ax, 4 x WD Red Plus 1TB (WD10EFRX) for storage, one 16GB Optane M.2 cache, a 2 x Crucial 3200MHz DDR4 8GB boot drive, an integrated 2280 NVME SSD M.2 for the drive, and I’m planning to run Next Cloud. When I first boot into TrueNAS, all four drives appear. I set up a pool and an SMB share, and files transfer works fine. However, when I attempt to install the Next Cloud plugin, it stalls at around 20% and freezes, forcing me to power off the system. After restarting, it either shows only a few drives or makes a clicking sound before failing to power on. Normally it boots within three attempts. I’ve tested each drive individually across all SATA slots on the Jonsbo backplane—booting, restarting, turning it off and on—and each time the drive is detected. I’ve also tried swapping out the SATA to Molex cables and replacing the cables, but nothing changed. I suspect a power supply might be insufficient, though my smart meter shows less than 200W draw. I’ve also replaced the SATA cables without success. Could you help identify the issue? Any tips would be appreciated.
Are you connecting all cables from the power supply to the drives? Consider using several cables instead. Did it actually stop working? Installing Nextcloud on a TrueNAS core can take a while—sometimes it lags at 20% for a few minutes without any visible progress, yet it continues running.
I've retried and waited around 50 minutes, but it remained at 20% until the connection prompt appeared. The fans are still running, yet I can't input anything on the connected keyboard or screen. To narrow down the problem, I restarted after creating the SMB share (skipping Next Cloud) and still face issues with disks failing to show in Next Could at startup. Thanks for the advice, though—I wasn't aware of how long the installation would take.