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the one question i presume i want to no will they give a link to to install a fresh and when i buy as still sorting the server out as i run three truenas servers all have Version: 25.04.1 on them thankyou as soon as i get reply hoping so i will hit buy button

Hey, For Plex/Jellyfin the recommendation is generally to go with Intel CPUs (at least 12th gen) because Intel Quick Sync is really great for decoding/encoding, much better then AMD in fact. Some people would say to avoid 13th & 14th gen and to go for either 12th or Core Ultra (or how are they called again, the latest gen ?) due to the issues which 13 and 14th gen had/have. i5 or i7 are a good option for Intel. Also if you plan to use Proxmox, use it as the OS and not Hexos. You can host Hexos as a VM in Proxmox but you definitely should not host Proxmox as a VM in Hexos. This is a decision which you should take and already deploy now, because changing it afterwards is a lot of work and hassle.

mine took about 1 hour to do 472 4k dolby atmos 7.1 movies but also bear in mind certain tvs have trouble certain sound formats

Hey all. 👋 My google drive/photos is getting full and it gets annoying constantly trimming it i chose to building my first server. Main use case is for plex, smb share and maybe something like Immich. Secondary if possible, time wise and hardware wise some VMing like playing with Proxmox, vanilla trueNas etc. Not now, not yet, maybe a year later some VMs for living room entertainment (game emulation & media player). I have been looking in the market and i think my choices are like these. (prices with only one system NVMe) ⟦⟫ Second hand AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 350€ (if i play the waiting game, most second hand market is a bit dry) ⟦⟫ New AM5 Ryzen 7 8700G 480~550€ ⟦⟫ AOOSTAR WTR PRO AMD Ryzen 7 5825u 530$ (which just right now got a price rise and i dont know how mutch it will be in €) Any thoughs on my options? I am looking for reasonable energy consumption and i dont know how the 8700G will fair on that. By the way Intel is missing because i dont know there equivalen offerings and the second hand market is mostly AMD.

The update is ok to do. It was a minor hotfix change related to Active Directory support (doesn’t directly affect us). With activity UI in place, only valid updates should show up now. We are still locking users to the 24.10 train, but updates within that train are fine.

be in my shoes i went to buy 199usd convert to aud and its over 300 bucks ouch i dont mind as i tyred of setting up truenas for plex its pain in the butt this the only reason for this plus my cpu amd has built in gpu

The HexOS dashboard should probably not expose the TrueNAS update before it is officially supported. Perhaps that can be improved with a server side whitelist 🙂

yeah hexos changes are mostly done server side. That said seems like the team will let us know when it is okay to update the underlying truenas os. The latest officially supported truenas version is 24.10.2.2

I am visually impaired not completely blind, but almost, I don't use a screen reader, but all you do to help people that use screen readers, will also help me! Most important for me in the web interfaces is that the sites are build on dynamic design, so I can use the zoom function in my brower, and that you don't use any javascripts or other kinds of "black magic" to control what colors I have on my screen... The dark theme I like wery much! (and English is not my first language so sorry if there is to many typhos)

I have now checked through TrueNAS UI and it actually does seem to be an official TrueNAS update and not just a HexOS update. For some reason there is just no information about it in TrueNAS changelogs which caused my confusion 😅

I have now received an update message in my HexOS dashboard prompting me to update to 24.10.2.3 This follows the TrueNAS versioning which leads me to think I can find some information regarding this version on TrueNAS webpages, but I can't. https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/24.10/gettingstarted/scalereleasenotes/#241022 Is this an update containing only HexOS changes? If so, could the versioning be less TrueNAS-like to avoid version confusion? 🙂

i plan to use for plex and i can confirm the asus nic works

mine runs warm but i 1500watt psu and noctua fans so it get plenty air and power thank for quick response

thankyou

yes this should be possible. i;m just not sure how you would go about it. its always a bit annoying dealing with machines on different networks. i imagine you would have to start with tailscale or a reverse proxy and then go from there.

the account you already made for this form is all you need.

hmmm what do you plan to use your server for mainly? if its something like plex or jellyfin then intel cpus might still work better for you since intel quick sync is still great for transcoding video. if its mostly other stuff your ryzen 8700g shouldnt have any issues defintely a healthy amount of ram this may or may not give you issues (like pretty much every nic on the market) seems like it uses either a Aquantia AQC107 chipset or the newer AQC113 chipset i am not incredibly familiar with aquantia compatibility. i would definitely google around "Aquantia AQC### truenas scale" and see what kind of experiences others have had highly recommend at least stepping up to a lsi 9305 or lsi 9400 because the 9300 runs super hot and chuggs on electricity. Getting a card with IT mode, like you picked, is a must

i want to no if this will be ok for hexos 870 motherboard AMD Ryzen 7 8700G w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 64gig ddr5 asus xg-c100c network card LSI 9300-16i 16-Port 12Gb/s SAS/SATA HBA ZFS TrueNAS UnRAID IT Mode 16.00.12.00

do i have to creat accoun t before i buy or do i buy please

Some points from things I noticed reading through this thread: * SMB is the protocol used to move Windows files through network transfers. For example, if I want to go to my NAS on my local network on Windows, I go to \\nas.homelab.local\share. On Linux, I got to smb://nas.homelab.local/share. It's just the protocol used to navigate to the destination, like https:// before a website URL. When you set up your data pool of all your drives, you create "shares" which are essentially folders for you to divide your content. On Linux, these are called "NFS" shares, but for compatibility, everyone just uses SMB shares. * Plex cannot currently be installed through the HexOS panel, it can only be installed through the TrueNAS panel. The end result would be the same, though: a container would be created on top of HexOS/TrueNAS, and that container would run Plex. The only apps that can be installed through HexOS itself is Immich and Plex. * Plex and Immich are currently the only things that could be installed on the HexOS > Having my download/organize media content on another pc connected to the network, then moving the content over to my hexos machine? I run all my services on Linux. What I do is I mount the drive the SMB share as a folder on my other containers and they access the files directly. I run everything on the same machine (more on this in a bit), so I get 37 Gbps between my services. No need to worry about moving files back and forth. I just work on them via the network. Have you considered running HexOS as a VM on Proxmox, rather than installing it on baremetal? While it's not officially supported, the only issue I have seen in such a setup is that I cannot install apps through the HexOS panel, but I can do so perfectly fine in the TrueNAS panel. There's a little more initial setup, but it's mostly just passing through the drives that would actually have the data pool, in your case the five 12TB drives. The initial setup would be a bit more complex, but you would have a lot more freedom in how you want to run things, such as limiting how much CPU or RAM to give HexOS versus other services. You would also have everything run at the same priority. Proxmox would also allow you to run LXC containers, whereas TrueNAS can only run Docker containers. It also allows for full Windows 11 servers. Like I said though, it's initially more complex. The hardest bit, for example, would likely be setting up the HDD and GPU passthrough. There's a lot of community scripts to help automatically install a bunch of services, but GPU and HDD passthrough is a manual task (at least for me it was) There's multiple threads talking about people's experiences with Proxmox if you do a search through the forum. As for game servers, I would use some kind of tool to make it easier. Pterodactyl Panel is a TrueNAS application and supports a lot of games. I prefer running an Ubuntu Server container and using LinuxGSM for my game servers, since I prefer using the terminal. For your Windows 11 services, Proxmox should also fully support running a Windows VM perfectly fine for whatever you need to do there.

yes bite the bullet and use the 1tb drive for something else. i wouldn't use it for cache but you can make a single drive pool to install your apps to.

Hello, Looks like I sort of messed up a bit when building my system. This is my first ever NAS, and I clearly didn't do my do diligence and got a 1TB SSD for my boot drive thinking I could easily use the rest as cache or something. Should I just bite the bullet and get a smaller SSD for OS and use the 1TB as cache or is there a smarter way to do things? Thank you!

Hi there! I’m planning to build a home server using HEXOS, and I had a simple but important question: Is it possible to back up a HEXOS server to a Windows PC located in a different house? Both systems would have 3x 8TB hard drives and would be connected to the internet—but not the same local network. I’m still a beginner and haven’t bought the parts yet. I just want to understand whether this is even possible before investing time and money.

I'm glad i didn't end up painting the case. That would have taken a while and no time. The case came in Thursday night and i worked on it for hours since i got it. I still don't even have the motherboard installed 😅 I've also spent a lot of time doing cable management and it still looks like a rat's nest 😅😅 My original plan to drill in mounting holes for the phanteks drive caddies is a bust too but my new plan is less elegant and more expensive 😅😅😅 I realized i had more free sata power and data slots so i bought more drives 😅😅😅😅 Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday i make a new update saying I'm 95% done. This iteration of my server is not going to complete until i can get a part 3d printed and 3d printing services are expensive. I'm reaching out to some friends to see if they have a 3d printer but I'm not hopeful. 😅😅😅😅😅

This is at the top of my list of things I want on hexos