Pretty sure that was home assistant. I had the same issue. Phone would even get piping hot. Killed home assistant, problem solved. I’m connected to VPN to home using openvpn 24/7. Too lazy to switch to wireguard :p

WD reds I believe are smr, wd red pros are cmr, or at least that was a thing for a while that WD did silently.

They seem like they would be good, but the more Ive experienced them the less I like them.

My USG can’t get past 250mbps, probably thermal as well. The cloud keys are shotty at best. They build that to make it difficult to disassemble and service. They lock you into their crap software ecosystem that then requires their hardware. Ive setup 2 poe switches and both were warped and have excessive thermals compared to my much larger poe switches.

I am starting to call ubiquiti fauxsumer products…

Pretty sure something like 10 years ago crashplan deleted a bunch of customer data in a deduplication job gone wrong.

This is the correct answer. Dell, and other oems, have stored their windows keys in firmware on motherboards for years now. You could literally install on a fresh drive and it should auto activate. Typically at most you have to go to click activate yourself.

This is all assuming the machine came with a pro license and wasn’t upgraded of course. It should have a sticker on it.

Also thank you for pointing this out. Not sure how I missed this. I already looked in the passwd file to make sure it was an actual user account, they’re right next to exciter and had the same uid. You saved me a boat load of time trying to figure that one out. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

This was the issue. I did an update recently of truenas and apparently the polkitd user took over the uid for my plex account. Unfortunately it looks like this also caused some level of corruption since even changing the uid and gid haven’t fixed the issue and plex is borked.

Luckily I have backups, so not all is lost, and even if it was, I could probably just regenerate that data.

I started with truenas core, then moved to truenas scale. I tried a couple others but ultimately truenas had an easier and cleaner ui and i wanted an easy way to use nextcloud without having to do too much work.

Turns out nextcloud doesn’t seem to work right now, probably a user error in the container deployment, so I’ve not done that again. Most of the containers I’ve tried using I end up just building vms for because it’s more flexible. Right now I have 2 720xd one is truenas storage, the other is proxmox. They’re both on 10g network to a switch so using truenas to store data for the vms on my proxmox isn’t a big deal at all.

In any case like I said I don’t really use the truenas box for much other than storage which is a shame, there’s a boat load of memory and like 32 cores. Currently I backup to USB drives. Not great, but I also don’t want to burn my money on cloud storage or hefty external raid enclosures. Tape would be cool, but again I’m a cheap boi.

When it comes down to it, this is what is recommend. Write down a list of what you’re requirements are and what you’d like to see. Compare the filer oses and pick ones that meet the requirements and what you like. Then just install them and see what the look and feel is.

Don’t forget backups, people will preach gospel about needing 1x2x3 or some sort of other potentially expensive backup solution. If this is a home lab, do what fits your budget, skill, comfort levels. You can always improve from there. External drives work fine for me, will they both fail at some point sure, but nothings perfect and more important data is backed up to encrypted blobs in free cloud storage.

Also remember to take your time. It’s easy to Leroy Jenkins some shit and just go in guns a blazing, but if you take your time and read and make sure you understand the important stuff before you implement, you’ll save a ton of time. Unlike me who had to blow out my zfs impingement once after 5 tb were uploaded and kept screwing up my backups. Glad I didn’t loose data, but easily could have happened.