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Hey, Seeing that you want to host a lot of VMs, may I suggest that you use Proxmox as the OS and Hexos as a VM. Proxmox is brilliant to run VMs while Hexos doesn't support VMs yet, you have to use the truenas gui and don't have the same flexibility as proxmox offers. Therefor, use proxmox ass your OS an Hexos in a VM. Just make sure to pass through the SATA controller to Hexos to give it HW level access and don't connect anything other then the Hexos drives to that controller. You can still just use Hexos as the OS and run your VMs in there, the initial Hexos setup is easier but you are not as flexible in the long run. There is no right or wrong in this one, both have there pros and cons. 🙂 HDDs: yes, avoid SMR drives as they are causing issues with ZFS. Go for CMR drives, but IIRC most, if not all 8TB drives are CMR anyway. Basically stay away from desktop and WD Red (non plus/pro) drives and go for NAS/Server drives. Check alternate if they still have refurbished server drives, might be a good starting point. And yes at least 3 drives now, to create a RaidZ1 which is expandable in the future. CPU: yes only AMD/Intel is supported. Intel iGPU from 12th gen onwards is brilliant for HW transcoding. 13th and 14th gen had problems where they died prematurely, but Intel supposedly fixed this with BIOS updates, but still a lot of people don't trust them, that's why some people don't recommend them. But you can still use them if you like, just make sure to use the latest bios and don't buy the F version as you mentioned. MoBo: whatever fits in the case and doesn't use a Realtek NIC. Typically ITX boards only have 1 pcie slot, so you can either use a GPU (for ML & LLM) or an Intel NIC or a HBA card. If you can go full ATX you don't have this problem anymore. Also most boards are either DDR4 or DDR5, you have to make your choice now. Almost no consumer CPU/MoBo supports ECC, so you will likely not be able to use your DDR4 EEC memory. Raid Controller: if you have enough SATA ports you don't necessarily need one. Network: wifi is a BIG no no! Neither Hexos nor Proxmox support WiFi you absolutely have to use a wired network connection, that's not optional but a hard requirement. Additionally Hexos doesn't not allow you to use your boot drive for anything else, so go with a small SSD (32GB are enough) if you use Hexos as your OS. If you use Proxmox, you don't have that limitation, there you can even install VMs on your boot drive.

Hey all, I am planning to build my first custom NAS. I know how to build a gaming pc, but not the details of cores, speeds, threads, or video encoding, or anything deep in why to pick x hardware against y hardware. Location: EU/Netherlands Purpose: - Hosting gaming servers, like any game, this will change from time to time on what game it is going to be. From Valheim to Minecraft to Ark Survival. - Running a media server like Plex or Jellyfin - Hosting VMs with Kubernetes clusters, etc for development testing env. Current situation: - Sadly, for now, I can only connect with WiFi, this will change in the future. - I do have a lifetime HexOS license. Hardware: Case: Jonsbo N3 HDD: probably 3x 8 TB (not sure which I heard stuff about SMR or something that it is bad and will run me into problems later but not sure what I should get then.) I do understand I need at least 3 disks for proper use of HexOS RAM: 32GB(2x 16) DDR4 with ECC support(also not sure which and how I know this is supported) CPU: This I am really stuck on, I see a lot of users talk about i5 12600k IGPU. But is is kind of hard to get for me. I was wondering why the 13th/14th gen are not used? All I understand so far I should not get an F or AMD because of the bad video encoding support with PLEX and Jellyfin. I also understand that HexOS only supports x86 systems. I think that means only AMD/INTEL CPU's Motherboard: I think it needs to be an ITX size for the case? So far, I need something that can support the CPU ofc, Is it possible to support DDR4 and DDR5 on the same motherboard for future upgrades? I guess something with a lot of SATA connections was not sure if you need 3 or 6 GB. Power supply: I am not so sure what I have to look out for with the N3 case. I assumed around 500 watts. I do like to transfer my gaming PC Corsair HX750 V2 PSU to this, but not sure what to check on what fits or not. Because I do need to upgrade my gaming pc one. Raid controller: Not so sure which to get here in the Netherlands. All I know I need one with IT mode. Any guides would be nice. I also heard there are a lot of fake once's Is this true? My goal is to have a server that can last for a while and just have fun with and tinker. Thanks in advance 😄 If I need to provide any more info, please feel free to ask 😄

No, the warning went away on its own.

To add the ones I'd want to see curated: Tailscale (or netbird or both) Frigate SABnzbd Seerr (Unified Jellyseerr/Overseerr) Navidrome Audiobookshelf Calibre Rustdesk Uptime Kuma Joplin Onlyoffice

Was this option taken away? 'no presets' is not in the purpose drop down, I don't see an option for 'export recycle bin'

A few weeks ago I did approximately the above sequence, but I had to manually recreate the share folders in HexOS based on what the pool showed in truenas. Maybe it's different now, but there needs to be a cleaner way to back up the configuration and restore the boot drive without a hacky workaround. The whole point of HexOS is I should never have to go into truenas or do anything very manual. I also had to redownload my apps but this was just plex and Immich so not a big deal for me, but bigger for others.

Absolutely. I also had both my boot drives fail. I was able to import the pool in truenas and recaggiger my Immich database but it was a pain. Ended up with a silver lining of Plex finally playing nicely on reinstalling but this is a huge problem that needs to be solved.

So, my motherboard has 4 ethernet ports + an impi port, and they're all showing up in my interface: 1, 2 & 4 is not plugged into my network, but they're taking quite alot of space. 5 seems to actually be the IPMI port as well, not really relevant for the systems overview IMO. Would love if maybe the unplugged interfaces would be greyed out, and maybe an option to hide interfaces. P.S. Could we maybe get to see the IP on connected interfaces?

Shame on you all. Sam Jackson would not approve.

Hello. If your boot device fails just install a new boot drive. Reinstall with the HexOS USB stick and install to that boot drive. Once it restarts and boots up it would probably be best to log into your to trueNAS and do the OS update. Have it reboot. Once up and running login to the hub of HexOS and unclaim your server so you have a license to use. Then select the add server option and reclaim your server. Skip the drive setup options so you can set up manually. Usually HexOS sees your existing data automatically. Sometimes you have to resetup your apps. In few instances you have to do an import in TrueNas for it to see your previous data volumes. When it auto detects it HexOS sees it which is most of the time. And in rare instances TrueNAS doesn't see it and that import option has to be done. This is just the general overview.

Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

I dont use HexOS...yet, but +1 here.

If my boot device fails, what is the restore procedure? I can't seem to find one if there is, like restoring my datasets pools users etc

Immich, pi-hole, home assistant, nextcloud, open speed test, plex, and mumble all failed about 10 hours ago. Like I said, immich has been a problem for a while. Also, I can't restart pihole. Reinstalling pi hole would be pretty easy, the others to, except immich because I backed up a lot of pictures. Thanks for your help and quick response.

Over a year later and I'm seeing similar behavior. I think my actual issue was a bad sata cable or port. Tried initially just reseating the cable and the drive that was previously showing IO errors disappeared. Then I plugged into a different port with different cable and it showed up just fine. It's still showing the pool as unhealthy but I think that's from previous errors, and also unrelated. Bottom line I agree there needs to be a clean option in HexOS to replace a failed drive that's no longer showing up.

Hi Jammer, I reached out in your dms to see if there was anything i can do.

Ever since this WD Red, meant for NAS, are SMR drives BS from WD, (and a bad support experience after a brand new drive died after 1 day) I've avoided them when there was an alternative, being it SSDs or HDDs. Nonetheless, very interesting video, to see what the differences really mean.

Hey, 1 account can have multiple licenses. If you want to be your own buddy backup you can buy a second license with your account, if you have a buddy who wants to be your backup buddy, that person can make an own account and buy it's own licence. However you cannot transfer a licence from one account to another account. I hope this was understandable

Hey, you can't leave a cliffhanger like! Don't friends normally share bigger impacts with one another? 😁

I believe there was a long discussion in a few posts but it came down to two licenses, two accounts. If I am wrong someone will surely correct me. Hold on, I take that back because that way you could sell the second license and defeat the pricing overall.

[EZFS_CKSUM] Failed to import 'HDDs' pool: cannot import 'HDDs' as 'HDDs': insufficient replicas and now im getting this

As far as I understand it I only have one license and one account? Is it possible to get a second account for my buddy? How is this supposed to work? Or does this just allow me to have 2 server in my one account? I'm confused.

We have no editorial input or control over the LTT videos. We don't pay for sponsorship or anything like that either. The fact that it came out this weekend was pure happenschance. We are looking into the SMB issue and will see what we can do from our side to address. Tbh, what we have planned for the rest of the year is going to have an even bigger impact than the 1.0 release in my mind. With respect to price, an announcement about our scheduling pricing changes will be coming soon.

Hey, I have a couple questions. After watching the latest LTT video about needing a NAS, did you ask for a little publicity now that you are in the 1.0 neighborhood? I have NO problem if you did but i'm not sure they really did the product a favor. Yes the setup overall show the simplicity but the SMB issue is pretty common and pretty troubling. Plouffe did say it was a Microsoft issue but most people don't have many people willing to bail you out. And Microsoft security setting are not something you screw with if you don't have real experience. You probably could have done without that "I get the key. So I didn't pay for it.' comment as well. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity right? The video was a little weird to watch sine it must have been filmed a few months ago. So now that you have reached this point is the price going up? That would put you right up there with the lifetime Unraid price. You have been warning folks all along it would happen so we can't ack surprised.

@mill3000 let's take a look at his issue this week.