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Looks nice! A real homelab monster. Only the amount of memory is a little bit low 😀. Just joking What do you want to do with so much capacity? I am really curious. I don't think you only want to use this machine for storage.

The motherboard on my prior NAS decided to take a take a dirt nap a few weeks ago. I have been thinking about replacing it before hand but this made my decision easier. I wasn't in too much of a hurry and searched eBay for about 2 weeks looking for parts and sending lower offers to sellers for parts to build my new NAS. Finally, after 2-3 weeks its now in my production homelab. I think I got the recertified drives for around 20 bucks or less each. If you are not in a rush and you take your time, you can definitely find deals and build a pretty nice NAS on the cheap cheap... don't forget to haggle with offers! Its very quiet but, it weighs about 80 pounds. Specs: Core chassis: Dell T430 CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2667v4 RAM: 384GB ECC DDR4 (2400) PSUs: Redundant 1100W Platinum HBA: LSI 9300-16i Storage Pool: 13x 4TB SAS 12GBp/s 7.2K drives (in ZFS Z2) Boot Drive: NVMe (Connected to internal USB 3.0) SLOG: 256GB SDD L2ARC: 1TB SSD Transcoding: ARC310 NIC: x710-DA2 SFP+ Fans: All replaced with silent Noctua Extra 5 port drive bay: SilverStone FS305-12G drive cage

I have the same question, how can I change the email address ? thanks

I'm still on version TrueNAS-SCALE-24.10.0.

There was no TrueNas update via HexOs yet. I suspect that you did run the TrueNas update via TrueNas. I think this the reason that you are unable to Connect to the HexOs deck.

I'm still on 24.10.2. According to Truenas I currently have 2 boot environments, 24.10.2 which was created 23/03/2025 and 24.10.0 which was created in 19/12/2024. Guessing that was when it was updated but can't say for sure if it was me or hexos doing it.

Several other users have also a WTR Pro (Intel and AMD version) and are able to run HexOs without any issue. So the hardware is not the problem. Did you run by any change a TrueNas update?

Fairly basic server setup with a N100 CPU (AOOStar WTR PRO with 4x 4tb HDDs <ST4000DM004-2U9104>) Really haven't done much in truenas other than debugging an issue I had with plex so it should be mostly the same as hexOs set it up originally.

what parts are in your servers? is there anything you setup in the truenas interface? (ex. storage pool was made in truenas)

Same here, claimed my server in december last year however for since like February/March I've been unable to connect to the server using the hexos dashboard. Server is up and running, I can see it in the network, I can connect to it using truenas interface, I just can't get hexos to connect to it for some reason...

I got mine yesterday, tested them quickly and they are working. Now I only need to wait for retail to order the Power On/Off accessory

I'm waiting for a few more features and for my new build. I have Unraid running right now with 56TB usable with 1 spare drive and I want to migrate that over to HexOS but migrating ZFS pools is not possible yet. I also want to upgrade to a new server that has more capability dual 14 core Xeon 192 GB ram 60TB usable with two spare drives.

My only issue with my JetKVM, is that it's not yet possible for me to order more of them.. 😛

I think your limit would hit your transcode device first unless you are using an Nvidia card. I only say Nvidia because I haven't been able to get my AMD card to transcode. I think LTT did a video on it a while back and showed that even a cheap card meant you could upload to several clients at once.

There aren't any drivers to install but people have struggled getting arc cards to work for transcoding. There should be a few threads on it but i haven't really kept up with them since i didn't plan on using arc cards myself

Pinging @jonp He might have some better insight

I've had my license for years and I've watched things fall off over time. I wish that they would be brought back. The image backup so I didn't need a different program was nice. Plugins to add functionality also nice. Downloading copies to my clients used to work well. So many things used to work well and instead of fixing the issues with those things that have since broken they have instead focused on adding free content to watch. While I like the on-demand things I would prefer to have all the features I started with working. At the same time the price made sense then and I've had it for over ten years so yeah, I'd do it again. My biggest issue with all of it is the privacy thing. It feels like they are going to start selling my data any minute now.

I recently started building out my HomeLab and began with a Minisforum MS-01 system with the intention of mostly using for compute but was hoping to leverage for storage as well. I have several internal NVME's I will be using as mirrored storage for virtual machines and containers/applications. The machine has dual USB4 40Gbps ports, dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, and dual 10Gbps SFP+ ports, there's also a PCIe expansion slot that can take a low profile HBA if needed. Unfortunately in my haste to acquire this I did not fully research the limitations of ZFS and USB until after the fact. So I find myself here now, hoping someone might have some recommendations of an external enclosure and low profile controller card that could work for me. My searches online are usually recommending older/outdated equipment off of eBay or the products are just not available. I would ideally like to find an external enclosure that was supported over eSATA or SAS with capacity for 5-8 drives, but I also realize my options are limited and will gladly work with whatever I can find. Alternatively is there a scenario where I could use an external Thunderbolt/USB4 drive enclosure and leverage all the disks without ZFS at the cost of some performance? Thanks in advance for any comments, feedback, or suggestions.

For test purposes you can also install HexOs in a VM and create two or three virtual harddisks. I run my test HexOs setup in Proxmox on a mini PC with 1 SSD

I am still very happy with my JetKVMs. Really helpful. Please share your experiences after the waiting game.

This should work. I suggest that you first move your drives as to the new system. And I it works, then clone the boot drive. I know @ubergeek migrated his drives in a new system more then once. I you search in this forum on his name, you will find more guidance.

Hello, I plan to add a Sparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO into my system to help with transcoding ability for plex. When adding in hardware is it just plug and play or would i need to add in any driver installs or setup? Thanks all!

You can do a single drive pool by going to the truenas web portal and creating it. I have a single drive pool for my NVR. It just breaks HexOS dashboard at the moment.

I have a PC I built in 2016 with M.2 nvme boot drive and a bunch of SATA drives. I uses a 6th gen Intel CPU. If I built a new PC, and moved all the storage media over (plug and play), would that work? Hoping to keep all the storage media without a "migration" and eventually get a better nvme drive to clone the boot to. Feasible?

Mine was - claimed some time ago. It now says it's not available but I can still go through TrueNAS.