Today was spent helping a friend migrate his video editing business' 164 TiB

Posted 2024-12-08 | Back to blog index

Today was spent helping a friend migrate his video editing business' 164 TiB (22 drives!) TrueNAS rig from CORE to SCALE. The automated migration worked well, but then I got to spend a few hours setting up docker containers for everything that was running in FreeBSD Jails before.

All around a big boost in performance going from FreeBSD to Linux. Doubled network speeds (10 Gbit adapter) and 30% faster loading for their ridiculously bloated WordPress page.

TrueNAS SCALE control panel TrueNAS SCALE docker 82% UsageUsable Capacity: 164 TiBUsed: 134 TiBAvailable: 29 TiBWarning: Low Capacity List of 22 hard disks in TrueNAS SCALE

If anyone is curious what the hardware looks like

A rack containing a switch, a Dell server, 2 disk racks and a UPS A rack containing a switch, a Dell server, 2 disk racks and a UPS The rear of the rack showing a mess of cables

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