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TrueNAS Mini-R

The TrueNAS Mini-R is a 2U rackmount NAS appliance from iXsystems. It's the rack-mountable member of the TrueNAS Mini family, designed for small office and homelab use with enterprise-grade ZFS storage features.

Hardware

  • Form Factor: 2U rackmount, 21" deep (short-depth)
  • CPU: Intel Atom C3758, 8-core
  • RAM: Up to 64GB DDR4 ECC
  • Drive Bays: 12x 3.5" hot-swap (lockable), supports SATA HDD or SSD
  • Networking: 2x 10GbE RJ45 (onboard), optional 2x 10GbE SFP+ add-in card
  • Management: IPMI out-of-band management port
  • OS: TrueNAS CORE (FreeBSD) or TrueNAS SCALE (Debian Linux)

fairy-store01

fairy-store01 is the TrueNAS Mini-R at the fairy site, running TrueNAS SCALE. It provides bulk media storage, Time Machine backups, and SMB shares for the home network.

Storage Layout

  • Drives: 12x 26TB Seagate Exos
  • Pool Layout: 2x 6-wide raidz2 vdevs
  • Usable Capacity: ~208TB

Network

  • Uplink: 10G copper to fairy-r02-tor01 (Netgear XS724EMv2)

Uses

  • Media libraries (Plex, Jellyfin) via NFS exports to Kubernetes
  • Time Machine backups
  • SMB shares for general file storage