These are internal drives connected to a desktop PSU wired to a USB interface to connect to the laptop.

Haha, yeah. It does make me wonder whether I should bin the whole TrueNAS approach entirely. It seems like a tremendous faff when I could just have the files mirrored to another disk as a backup.

The hard disks are on a separate power supply. The TrueNAS software is running on an old laptop so it effectively has UPS protection.

Yeah, another vote for Caddy. I’ve run nginx as a reverse proxy before and it wasn’t too bad, but Caddy is even easier. Needs naff-all resources too. My ProxMox VM for it has 256 MB of RAM!

Which logs specifically should I be checking?

zpool doesn’t see any pools to import. The system does see the disks but I’m not sure why the disks aren’t being checked for pools.

I’ll give it a shot. I was asking here in case it was a common thing that everyone else knows about (i.e. “Oh you’re running TrueNAS without a UPS? That’s a non starter, everyone knows that”.

It seems to either be completely fine and a power cycle makes no difference - or it loses the whole structure. I don’t know how I’m supposed to pull the disks back in. It doesn’t seem to detect that they’re already setup as part of a pool.

The pool I’ve created doesn’t vanish but it seems my only option for it is “manage devices” which takes me to the “Add VDEVs to the Pool” menu where my three disks show up as unassigned. The only presented option seems to be to wipe them in order to add them back to the pool.

Trying to search for this stuff doesn’t seem to give me anything useful. I don’t know what the intended behaviour is and what it is that I’m doing wrong. I would expect what should happen is that the disks come back online and get automatically added back to the pool again but no, apparently not?

Trademark reasons, surely?

Ooh, The Precinct looks rather fun!

Synecdoche, New York

Star Citizen still exists? I started when I was in my twenties and now I’m pushing 40!

Game development as a service.

I wouldn’t buy at the current price, raise it as much as you like.

There’s just not enough USPs to justify the cost to me, regardless of how shiny the graphics might be.

I want to want it, but it’s going to have to do a lot more than it currently is as a platform.

Get those HPV vaccines, by the sound of it. What a naff article.

I messed around trying to get Redhat 7.2 or 7.3 working but gave up (Q1 or Q2 2002). I later experimented with SuSe (or however it was stylised in Q1 2005), messed about with Knoppix and a few other distros, before properly going all-in on Ubuntu 5.04 when I was 18.

looks at radiator dubiously

Wow, there is someone else out there that feels the same as I do about Dan!

I like beans ‘n’ such.

My thinking was more “what amount might make someone make a financially irresponsible decision” rather than anything related to the real cost.

Add at least one zero to that, ideally two.

Gunpoint. Charming, atmospheric, doesn’t outstay its welcome.