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 I have been experimenting with an installation of TrueNAS which has :
-  * 5 x 500Gb SATA Hard Drives, configured as RAID-Z1
+  * 5 x 1Tb SATA Hard Drives, configured as RAID-Z1
   * AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core Processor running at 3.8Ghz
   * 8Gb RAM
-The Hard Drives are all second hand (bought from eBay). They are a mixture of ages, physical sizes, and manufacturers. I'm not building this as a super-fast storage array. Most of the file activity will be across my wired CAT5 network (100Mb/s), or 802.11g WiFi (54Mb/s), so any SATA disk (300Mb/s) should be able to keep up with the demands I can place on it.
+The Hard Drives are all second hand (bought from eBay). They are a mixture of ages, physical sizes, and manufacturers. Although this is not the most efficient way to build an array (the disks each run at different speeds), it's probably the safest, because it's very unlikely two disks will fail at the same time (although still a possibility).
+I'm not building this as a super-fast storage array. Most of the file activity will be across my wired CAT5 network (100Mb/s), or 802.11g WiFi (54Mb/s), so any SATA disk (300Mb/s) should be able to keep up with the demands I can place on it.
+I have an external USB caddy to hot-plug bare hard disks into. This is used for backups. They can take a while to copy (due to the speed of the USB connection). I'm not sure how long the backups take. I run them over night, and they are always finished before breakfast.
+===== What Does My TrueNAS Server Do? =====
+I have been running a Fedora Linux server for many years on an old Dell Dimension E520 PC. It supports many experimental projects and live systems. Lots of things have accumulated over time - some good, and some now redundant. I'm working my way through the cobwebs and moving various services to my new TrueNAS box. This is a work in progress, and an interesting voyage of discovery.
+Things that seem to work ok now :
+  * [[heimdall|Heimdall]] Dashboard
+  * [[boinc|BOINC]] client for [[https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/|World Community Grid]]
+  * [[transmission|Transmission]] P2P Torrent downloads
+Things I'm currently working on :
+  * [[gateway|Gateway and Firewall]]
+  * DNS & DHCP server - using [[dnsmasq]]
+  * [[famp|FAMP]] Stack - FreeBSD Apache MySQL PHP - initially for internal use only.
+  * NTP time sync server
+  * Simple [[mail|mail server]] for internal use only (gathering system reports and alerts)
+Things I'll look at soon :
+  * DLNA / UPnP media server
+  * MythTV Freeview DVB-T recorder
+  * Network Intrusion detection
+  * Reverse Proxy - to provide public access to hosted web sites
+  * VPN
+  * Security cameras with motion detection
+  * Docker container (maybe need to set up Linux in a VM for this)
+  * Move this web site to my TrueNAS server.
+  * HumHub
+  * NextCloud
+  * PMS - maybe Monica or vTiger