 Tom here from Warren systems and true NAS core release candidate one I would say is ready for deployment now This is long as you're an enthusiast like I am and well I've been doing it since beta but maybe if you're not quite the beta enthusiast but a release candidate enthusiast It's a pretty solid product. We've been using it for a while and not had any problems Of course the release can is only a couple days old So I say a while I loaded it today it came out But we were testing the betas and I can't really say I suffered through them They were actually very stable their whole release has been great Then true NAS core is representation of the merger of free NAS and true NAS I've talked about this before they're moving to a single code base, but don't worry. It's still free It's still open source to bite despite what someone's gonna really argue with me about in the comments trying to explain How it doesn't feel open source or something else the source code is available. 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Well randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums. Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video And other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content So here's the official blog post from IX systems to NAS core RC one originally yesterday And it's true NAS cores ready for deployment it's the merger of free NAS and true NAS the unified storage system now begins for mainstream use And I feel really comfortable especially with home users and whatnot if you're enthusiast Really running the release candidate. I don't think it's a big deal for our production environment. Yeah, we're gonna wait for our clients I should say to Get all the way to the full version before we decide to deploy it We're not having any problems with the other one But hey, we're talking about clients you want to keep them happy and unless you have a need for some of the cutting-edge performance features Which I are pretty outstanding. I'll leave a link to this here It's better to go slow, you know, I will admit that but overall my testing since the beta has gone really well And one of the things they've introduced here that I really like that you may or may not know But Z standard compression is really fast and a great add-on And it also comes from Facebook That's the part that not everybody's aware of is actually as much as you may dislike Facebook And I'll probably agree with you I will also tell you that they actually at the core of their business when they're not sucking up all your data They do some open-source contributions back and one of them that they gave back is their Z standard compression when you have a company the scale of Facebook you have Interesting problems to solve and compression being one of them to store all that data They slurp up about us, but they open-source a lot of the things and give back So that's actually kind of a cool thing that that's in there if you're not familiar with Z standard You can check it out. It's pretty cool enclosure management for the minis I have a free NAS mini X plus provided by IX systems review sitting next to me and the enclosures are now working and We'll talk about that. So if we go here and go to the system enclosures And we can see that they're all online and we're gonna go here and just Let's take this drive out and go over to the enclosures now the page doesn't auto refresh You have to refresh the page. So we're gonna go ahead and refresh it here And we do see one of the drives is empty now I don't have this thing set up to set an alerts directly to me Right now it's just tells us in demo mode, but this was not working when I did the review So for those of you wondering if that's working now now that's a release candidate This is one of the bugs that was Fixed and I guess it did work for some people didn't work for everyone I had a conversation with the engineers exact contacting about that and so that problem has definitively been solved and just pop the drive back in I can refresh the page again Well, now it's give me alert that the drive was for degraded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we know it's degraded and now It's going to rebuild Refresh the page again. Matter of fact, it's it'll probably be out of degraded state already So as we go over to the pools because the drive wasn't there's not much data being written to it right now Yep back online. It'll correct any errors from the random missing drive that Tom pulled out So going further down true man true command cloud connections I have not dove into the true command But this is another enhanced service that they're offering and it's going to be a software as a service that they are Selling to give you large-scale management of many NASA's at many locations I like this feature it's going to have wire guard VPN integrated into it. So it's pretty cool that they've got this whole system so if you're especially like an IT company like us and you're monitoring servers for other companies you look For a central way to do it. This is a way to do it we even work with and have done some consulting and Talk to companies they have data centers and in the plural like they got different locations So this is a welcome to where they're storing massive amounts on these stacks and being able to have true command Look at all of them. They're really looking at its interesting product. So that's definitely Something I will be diving into soon, but no, I don't have a video on that yet Now the nightly beta beta 2 release and update stages are free nas have gone through There's a true nas subform in the community forums for the unification process and community feedback This is something I really like about access. I'm they really have Done a great job of listening to their audience and listening to people on building all of this And this is something that they've been able to do even better since The merger of the two code bases So with true nas and free nas becoming one because they used to have two products that share pretty much all the same source code and All the same documentation that means they always had to push Documentation over to two sides and push source code to two different sides to compile two different platforms now That they're doing it all in one It's just a lot easier which also seems to enhance their ability to engage the community because now they have a dev team working on a Single thing you don't have you know the team kind of jumping back and forth Maintaining two things going I know copy the code over here paste it over here copy this over here Well, there's a slight difference when we implemented it here So copy it but modify these things you can see that can be some TDM now that it's one It's getting you know one solid cobase is much easier to do So I am looking forward to probably switching everything that we have here to the RC one for any further testing So I make sure I very promote it. I will be RC one is feature stable enough I should say that I will be doing some updated getting started videos and it's kind of fun They produce a new opportunity for me because now I have to say true nas a whole lot of times in a video and talk about Getting started with true nas now we've tested this on not just this free nas mini X here Which of course by X systems you're expecting it to run, right? I also have my super micro system It's an older one. I don't remember the model off top my head, but it's just a Older Xeon e5 2620 with a couple LSI cards in there and this has been going through the betas This is now going through the release candidate now or as you can see right here and Platform generic is just a generic super micro board and this has survived all the updates by the way This started as a free nas so it has seen all the updates and iterations in between and brought the pool along for the ride So I didn't dump all the data and rebuild this and the replication tasks I'll mention for those of you that may have mixed environments like I do where you have more than one of them You go over here and let's look at the replication tasks You can see that they're working. Where are they going to this machine over here? So This is the machine they're going to running free nas by the way, and this isn't even older machine But still has plenty of storage in it. It's still a few terabytes of storage so it's good enough for backing up the stuff that we have here at the office and Same answer you go here to tasks look at replication tasks and It's crossed over so I have some replication pushing one way from this to that So now I have free nas here playing with my true nas system and replicating data back and forth between them And that has gone really well. That's actually a nice thing is even though this is running an older version It's still cross compatible. So if you have a couple devices that you're backing up to For cross you know this which is a great strategy by the way take one free nas replicated to another Free nas or true nas you can test the beta without breaking that in case anyone's wondering But I'm gonna probably go ahead and update even that free nas there up to the release candidate and go from there So my overall impressions. I've been really happy with it. It's been solid. It's been reliable But you know free nas is always been that way true nas is just an extension of that And I like the play on words it'll leave you with that I seen in the forum post there It is still the best free nas system that they have out there. So it is still hundred percent free That's not changing. 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