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just finshed building my server 64 ddr5 on amd 5 board with 8700g cpu and 15 hardrives

I would agree with above. I am currently running on a rather speedy Ryzen 7 7840HS with 64Gb RAM. I am being frustrated at how difficult it is to get the iGPU or NPU used for anything. When I pull the trigger for a proper build, it will likely be an Intel CPU. i5 or i7 or whatever they're calling them. I would like to know what others think, especially about these problems in the 13/14th generation chips. Desktop or Mobile chips? Would be fascinating to see something like the BeeLink ME Mini with a more capable CPU in there. Lunar Lake perhaps? But that might be straying into the power territory where a custom NAS build is necessary?

I found this link today. The creator got me with nextcloud setup really easy.

I was a bit hasty in my NAS construction and ordered a 500gb m.2 for the bootdrive. Since the OS footprint and whatever else I do with my NAS is extremely basic, the 500gb m.2 is a bit overkill and now I want to downgrade to like a 128gb drive. Ive already ported over quite a bit of data to my array, and dont really want to export it back to their original drives. What would be best course of action to keep the data intact whilst doing the bare minimum? lol. Ive read that cloning the current bootdrive to the smaller drive and plugging and playing should work? Any help with this matter is appreciated.

Hey people! I am with a mental health based nonprofit and I was wondering if HexOS has any discounts for such organizations. Thank you kindly.

ok thankx

Hey, I'm not sure if I understand you question, but yes you will find a link to download the OS which you then need to install as a new OS. During the installation process you can choose to skip the creation of a new pool if you want to import an existing pool. This however has then to be done in the truenas GUI. As for Hexos, it only supports Truenas 24.10.2.X. 25.04 is currently not supported and will break some functions/displays in Hexos.

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