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New to this HexOS. How can I updated to the newest Plex version?

I just purchased this on eBay @ a very cheap price for 2 PowerEdge T630 servers (with HDDs (16x900GB and 4x 2TB)) for only $147.50 for everything. Only reason I got it so cheap was because Im local and the seller would only ship to people via freight. Now I have my backup replication server(s) for my homelab

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@TheCamba Here you are! https://www.gingerling.co.uk/hexos-its-immich-time/

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Thanks so much for this @Todd Miller - It's helpful and interesting, especially the word Experience of Technical. I would like to write a post specifically about what I do and don't know about HexOS and how that has affected me so far. The difficulty I have is in describing what I don't know, I am not yet at a stage where I have figured that out for HexOS. I found it easier to write what I do and don't know about building a PC, for that first post, as I've been watching LTT for years so I have herad a lot of words I don't understand. For HexOS I felt like I knew almost nothing. I will have a bash at a first draft and maybe we can work on it here? Try and add in some terminology and fill in some total blanks!

I tried again just now and was able to connect.

At this time there isn't such a place. i know a lot of users do want such a thing

Is there a place to view nightly changes, updates, fixes, etc. ? If not, I think it would be a good idea to all that have paid for the software to see information about the work and progress that is being done.

I've scheduled some time for myself this weekend to go to plain TrueNAS Scale. I don't see the benefit of HexOS yet. I am very eager for when it becomes worth it however almost everything I have done with the exception of creating shares, I have needed to switch over to TrueNAS GUI to accomplish. I'm not sure if this is on my end or if it is a HexOS thing, but I find the user interface to be unbelievable slow most of the time. I can have a fresh boot, let everything finish starting up and then I will click on Storage and wait a good 1-2 minutes before the icons actually show. My hardware is no super-computer but its definitely no slouch either. No hate towards the service/product, just don't think its for me.

I wanted to use HexOS for my family's all-around backup server for all of our devices, plus a single location for Plex, immich, and vaultwarden. I thought that it would be simple but I'm seeing that the vaultwarden app is something that isn't ready as a curated HexOS app yet. Hoping that changes soon as I think that would justify the price.

If you need to fall back the TrueNas to run an app, I would be suspicious of it having installed successfully. I can't say it is unacceptable though because it is the app (like Immich or Plex) running regardless of how you got there. When I had a similar issue it was because of a security issue with the folders that someone helped me with so I bet it could be a lot of things.

My launch button also doesn't work. What I have done instead is open up truenas, click apps in the left hand side, find and select immich, then in the right click "Web UI". That should open up the correct web browser, then just bookmark that for future.

so i would like it to fit in a networking cabinet, which is not as deep.. i am also not married with a rack mount, if it's a simple form factor as a tower, that';s fine. i currently have a synology DS3615 with 1 expansion bay which is perfect as a form factor.

I don't think what you want is possible in a single chassis. One of the only half depth chassis i can think of is the Sliger CX3701. (by half depth i am assuming you mean 15" or shorter" It's 3u, can fit a mITX motherboard only and has 10 bays of storage. Every mITX mobo i can find only has one pcie slot. But even then i don't think you can find an elegant way to get enough sata ports with a mITX mobo to 10 internal drives and 14 more external drives even with hbas since i don't think broadcom makes a 16e8i hba. The only way i can think of is getting a 24 internal hba and have 14 go outside the case and 8 stay inside and use 2 mobo sata. things do change a little bit if you have space for 18" depth. The Sliger CX3702 can support mATX mobo and some of those do have multiple pcie slots letting you use 2 different hba cards. That said i still can't think of any external enclosures that'll fit the extra drives. Without depth as a factor, so used super micro stuff might work for you? TLDR: i can't think of any good options for half depth.

Perhaps 45drives / 45homelabs suits your needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibrOOaYNtJ4 https://45homelab.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopoy3DLgbUc0gcO-KJF9JSFQdNElCXuwmDG4ASU0pnspj5Lc8fe

thanks @stringtrain i kinda got to that point. but that brings me back to the original issue.. i can either go with something reliable, like an old HP storage chassis which introduces a crazy amount of noise, or i can go with things like an icybox solution. which is frankly, going to fail thanks to power buttons per bay etc. etc. there just doesn't seem to be an off the shelf solution on which hexos will play nicely 😞

@PsychoWards didn't know that, thanks for the heads up! @Sonic I believe my USW-24 is passively cooled, but it's hooked up to a UDM Pro SE which should have a CPU fan and a chassis fan, and the room has both air conditioning and a Vornado air circulator. I think it should be fine. thanks for the responses 🙂

Got a new Intel X550-10G-2T-X8 card and it finds the new card just fine. Thanks for the recommendation!

Aren't you better off buying a disk shelf for your server rack? Those will hold 12 or 24 3.5in drives. You can often find them used for reasonably cheap prices, often pre-populated with old drives. This isn't bad, because even if the drives aren't useful to you, the sleds are. You can always on-sell old drives if you want. You can use SAS or SATA drives in a disk shelf, just don't mix them, stick to one type of drive per shelf. For commercial use disk shelves always plug in to a controller unit that acts as the brains of the NAS, controlling the dozens of drives for the network. You don't need that tho. Home rack folks will often just use a PC with a HBA card with external ports (eg. SFF-8088 ports on a HBA card from LSI), and connect that to the disk shelves with SAS cables. Or you could buy the rackmount control unit used too. They aren't much, and if you want to upgrade from SAS (3Gbps) to SAS2 (6Gbps) or SAS3 (12Gbps) controllers, then they're modular upgrades. The biggest drawback is probably noise from all of those drives working and fans to keep the HDDs and PSUs cool. Seeing as you're already going with rackmount tho, I guess that noise isn't a concern in your setup. caveat: I haven't done this myself. I researched it and ended up passing because I can't manage the noise in my living situation. Otherwise, it's easily the cheapest and cleanest way to 100TB+ storage levels so long as you buy used gear. Need more storage later? Add another disk shelf to your rack.

Should be 6.6.44

curious what's current kernel version?

It all depends of the purpose of your NAS. If you want a rock solid storage for all your important data, don't go this path. If you like the experiment and want to investigate the cutting edge of technology, go ahead. I did a quick search, but I can't find BC-250's for $50. And BC-250 draw a lot of power. So if you want a affordable solutions, there a better options in the market.

@iruixos, is the device with the 10G SFP+ interface active cooled?

Tried to be precise and forgot to be polite, I am sorry. 🫣Thanks for reading.