Hardware.

Every release is compared against TrueNAS® CORE 13.3 in virtual machines. The two physical machines below are being brought up.

physical

Dell R640, modern BMC, four 3.5-inch bays and two internal 2.5-inch. Needs rails, drive caddies and disks.

guests

Supermicro X9DRH-7TF in an SC826, twelve 3.5-inch bays. Needs drive trays and disks.

Results are on the Tests page. The lab still needs NVMe hardware.

R640

A 1U Dell ReadyRails kit, four X7K8W 3.5-inch caddies and two DXD9H 2.5-inch caddies.

disks

3.5-inch SAS or SATA disks from 200 GB to 8 TB, any capacity. Small SATA SSDs as boot disks. One NVMe device.

SC826

MCP-220-00024-0B 3.5-inch drive trays for that chassis.

HBAs

IT-mode LSI SAS2308 or SAS3008 cards with SFF-8087 or SFF-8643 cables. External variants with a SAS disk shelf.

memory

DDR3 ECC, in matched pairs.

also

10 GbE SFP+ cards and DACs, SFP modules, patch cables, a switched PDU, a UPS with USB or serial signalling.

Not needed: CPUs, GPUs, 1 GbE cards, desktop parts.

Write to hello@freecore.org with what it is and where it ships from. We answer yes or no and give a shipping address privately. Used equipment is welcome. Shipments from inside the EU are easier; import duty on anything else falls on us.

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