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No, but if you’re a military service member, send me a dm.

Thank you! I will look into Immich. Seems a bit easier. Plex also makes sense in that case with plexamp. Need to figure out the site hosting though, even how much performance this is.

You can use something like Navidrome for Music Streaming, since you need a reverse proxy anyway this can be setup quite easily to be reachable over the Internet and is not behind a paywall.

yes, usually people use immich here but photoprism should work too If your friend is on the same network as you it should plenty easy for them to back up stuff as well if they are on different networks, you would need to setup something like a reverse proxy for them. this can work, just the ease of it is pretty variable. I believe this can be done easily with plexamp but some features are locked behind a paywall. It does get a bit harder when you try to do this outside of plex absolutely no idea, not something i have done myself or even looked into. hexos is going to get built in vm support in the future. at this time outside of plex and immich setup most things are done manually via the truenas interface in the future more apps are planned to be able to install in 1 click

Hey, so I am a bit new to servers. I want to build a NAS and hope that I can do the following with it: Photo/video backup. For myself and maybe a friend with his own library. Was looking into photoprism with photosync. I guess it would be 2 photoprism libraries in this case. Maybe something for high quality music, where I can place everything and stream from it Host 2 websites, I guess this is like running 2 linux based VMs simultanously? Can HexOS do this without too much manual work? I can code, but my background is as a front end game developer, quite different. I have implemented back-end integration systems though, just never anything back-end itself.

Will there be a 2025 Memorial day sale? I am considering purchasing HexOS

Create a bootable USB drive and use something like Dr Parted or, perhaps even better in your case Rescuezilla, to live boot into your system which will give you the ability to view drive contents and, if you use Rescuezilla, create a backup of your primary OS drive before installing the second drive intended as a mirror.

Never apologize for swearing. It's evolution's way of micro-stress reductions. IMHO

How can I see what is on my boot-pool? because the drive is 92% full and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reduce.

ok so upon further research it would seem that for some reason, portainer was installed onto the boot-pool and is filling it up. I cannot figure out how to move portainer to my main-pool. and I really dont want to have to redo all of the configuration I went through with my containers.

your boot drive is not too small in fact i would say its still too big 😂 hexos/truenas fits on a 16gb ssd, anything larger than that is a waste of space lol. The extra space is locked away and cannot be used for any purpose boot drive should be mirrored for safety which is slightly different from raid. A mirror has the exact same data on more than 1 drive. easiest way to swap boot drives is to make a clone of it with something like clonezilla. But again your boot drive is more than big enough

ok so I was an idiot and installed hex os on a drive that is way too small, the drive it is on right now is 120gb. I have a 1tb drive in the system but i know that for data security my boot pool should be on a raid1 drive. so i have ordered a second 1tb m.2 so that I can do raid 1. my problem now is, how can I migrate my boot pool from the 120gb drive onto the raid 1 config? I dont want to go through and have to reconfigure docker and all my other stuff.

Dang! Pics please!

But for the Terramaster brand, this is almost identical to my setup and I have the same use-case (backup & Media server) and so far have been super happy. Have fun!!

@Mindless999 Correct.

Thanks for this article, it has been an eye opener for the ECC memory, Especially reading a follow up which is on that thread: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/. So what I understand here is: ECC will *help* keep your data safe, and ZFS is already keeping your data safer then any other filesystem, by default. If you had an error in RAM due to broken RAM it would have broken any data on a disk, no matter what FS you're using. In summary: Using non ECC RAM is not bad Using ECC RAM is better, but it's better overall, it's not ZFS that makes it a requirement. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks again for the explanation/pointers to the correct information.

I second that recommendation.

Howdy ya'll, I'm pinormous. My interest in computers started back with RollerCoaster Tycoon, a game that could run on anything. I was soon puzzled why other games couldn't be played on my family computer, quickly learning that not all computers have the same capabilities. As my knowledge grew, I stumbled into the LimeWire era of data hoarding and never looked back. Over the next 7 years bigger hard drives were purchased then filled, external drives were acquired then subsequently filled, heard about Plex as a way to remotely access all my content, then I finally got serious about my addiction and bought an 8-bay NAS - giving me 34 TB of useable space. This will surely be enough, I told myself, there's no way I'll fill it up. 5 years later, I found out how much of a lie that was. So I'm now diving down a new rabbit hole of disk shelves and servers. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing; so I have a 28U rack that I'll be filling with networking, power management, and whatever else I can slap in there and explore. I have 2x24 bay shelves that, once populated, should net me around 900 TB of useable space. Surely, this will be enough space. There's no way I'll fill it up. I'm looking forward to the journey of learning new software and hardware that will enable this upgrade in the coming year, with HexOS hopefully making my first real move outside of Windows a simpler foray, leaving plenty of time to tinker more with networking. When I'm not learning-by-doing, I am frequently found playing factory or driving games. When I'm not off the clock, I travel the US as a longhaul truck driver (which piqued my interest after putting hundreds of hours in ATS and ETS2), so having my own personal Netflix is a real saving grace.

I understand that app integration is probably pretty low on this list of to-do's right now, but here's my request regarding the home assistant app. I installed the home assistant app, and tried to get started on the home assistant, which I've never used before and am intending to learn. However, in the process of trying to get started I learned that the installation of Home Assistant on Truenas is the Home Assistant Core, which apparently lacks a lot of the features of Home Assistant OS that makes it approachable. I find HA Core completely unapproachable for my level of knowledge, since even the most basic tasks presume requisite knowledge I don't have (like, I don't even know how to access the command line). It also appears that people generally recommend to install a virtual machine of the Home Assistant OS. This is a task that it above me at the moment, since again all the guides out there assume some basic knowledge that I don't have. So, in the spirit of HexOS, I request a feature that allows easy installation of a verion of Home Assistant in a VM, or some other way or version that supports home assistant add-ons.

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect please refer to this thread on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/comments/18znvaa/ryzen_cpus_support_ecc_memory/ yup it is, you can refer to pcpartpicker and use it's ecc toggle to narrow down ecc compatible gear but you will more than likely have to find the motherboard 2nd hand as with everything its a cost vs safety preference on your end. Its kinda like asking do i need raid 6 or is raid 5 good enough. I might think raid 5 is good enough but you might think raid 6 is a must for safety. However for more in depth info to help you decide if you need ecc feel free to refer to this following post. https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/10sr1zv/comment/j7394el/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Thanks for mentioning it, but what I read is that you need to have specifically a Ryzen Pro, and not the normal Ryzen processor. Intel does have the feature on most of their 12th gen and newer, but finding a capable motherboard is hard for that. It might also just be me unable to find the correct stuff, but also for a home lab, I will have data stored on there which I don't want to lose, but paying for 100TB+ on online / offsite backup is kinda expensive. So my main concern for this is: do I really need ECC, can I go without, and what would be the possible issues for non ecc memory, and how can I reduce the issues with it. Just having in the FAQ a small topic about ECC: why would you want it, and what are the risks if you don't I think is an added value for the people doing a DIY setup.

I recently used the F6-424 (which barring the number of bays should be the same I think), it was pretty easy overall. I updated the ram and added an NVMe M.2 drive to install HexOS onto. Here are some things to note or consider: -There is an issue with with some of the BIOS settings for the Terramaster and how it interacts with TrueNAS/HexOS, and after changing some settings I was able to solve those issues and it seems stable. (though its only been a couple days, but the rolling restarts no longer happen) Here is a link concerning the settings in the BIOS that should be changed from someone smarter than I: -As many guides/ videos point out, you will need a low profile USB imaged with HexOS to replace an existing USB that can be accessed by taking the right side of the case off, and removing the board under it, where the memory and M.2 slots are, it is located on the underside of that board. -It was recommended that after HexOS is installed to shut down the system and remove that USB because there is a tendency for the system to occasionally attempt to boot from it after install which can increase start up times for your server. I saw a video claiming that you could use the exterior USB and alternatively get to the BIOS to change the boot order, but most people said that it didn't work that way for whatever reason and you would want to remove the USB anyways. -During this process it was recommended to update the RAM as TrueNAS, and I imagine HexOS by proxy, will take advantage of it. This is my first NAS, and though I haven't done anything beyond using it as storage/ backup thus far, I found the hardware easy to work with and if you know to change the BIOS stuff indicated in the linked post then it seems to run fine. I will say this is not the most cost efficient way to have a NAS and it comes with the drawback of giving up some ability to upgrade in the future, but if your looking for a compact solution this works well and though I can't say that Terramasters software is great, I have seen people recommend their hardware. I hope this helps.

I personally think ecc isn't the biggest deal for homelabs. Easiest way to get ecc support is with modern ryzen. (I forget if older ryzen supports it)

I read a lot for a DIY HexOS, (mainly because of ZFS) ECC memory is highly recommended. Is this something that might need to be added in this list as well? Including maybe also the possible outcomes if you didn't do it, and most likely scenarios that it might have issues? I am looking into a DIY myself, and still am not sure what CPU/Motherboard/RAM combination to take, because most ECC combinations are really hard to find.

I wasn't at that time but that did work once for me later.