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Thing is that I built this system in an old gifted computer with a motherboard that only supports 4 drives as far as I know (one of which is the boot drive is on a SSD), so I created a pool with just 2 drives, I did consider maybe plugging one 8tb drive in as a third and then copy the files or something, but should I do this manually? I don't really know how I should go about this, do I create a new pool then? wouldn't that erase my data on my previous pool? some people said to just plug out one of the 2tb drives and replace it and let it rebuild but will that resize to the larger capacity? also I wouldn't want take this risk without knowing for sure it will work 😅 In the Docs I read something about 'Expanding Drives' but my pool says this is not supported since I only have 2 drives and not 3... 😞 What do you suggest I should do? thanks for the replies so far, I really appreciate the help 🙂 (P.S. also read somewhere on the forum that it would be possible to solve with the TrueNAS UI backend but I wouldn't even know where to begin really)

yeah it might be time for new hardware. I would also suggest not keeping your only copy of important data on this machine if you intend to keep using it as is. xeons are excessive if the only reason you are picking them is for less of a headache. for most users a used cpu and mobo is good enough. heck in your case i might even look for a replacement motherboard on the cheap.

Yes, I need to find something else to host it on, just don't have the funds right now. Trying to find some server grade mobo for my 6600 i5 to try to save some money. But might just have to go with a xeon something to have less of a head ache when I get the proper funds. This is mainly to get my feet wet and learn truenas and self hosting.

Sorry ment z170. Old intel i5 6600. And I'll look into that and see what goes into it

since you are just replacing 2 drives, have you considered just plugging your 2 2tb drives and 2 8tb drives at the same time, copying over your data then removing your 2tb drives?

Hi I'm quite new to this and I consider doing the very same thing with my Raid1 setup consisting of 2x 2TB drives swapping to 8TB ones, but since I'm quite new to this and this HexOS system is my first NAS experience, I'm hesitant to just pull them out one by one and try for the best, I would like get some reinsurance that I'm not about to loose my precious data, can somebody help me find out what are the proper steps of doing this or at least point me in the right direction? I do know how to get to the TrueNAS UI... but that's pretty much it when it comes to that 😛

Honestly, if there are known hardware issues you should probably be looking for another machine to host your NAS

+1 for Paperless-ngx ! I would love to see that.

+1 for Paperless NGX for document management.

im no expert on permissions (and i don't even use HA) but, when you remade the data sets did you select the apps preset?

Hey, Not sure if your 170Z is a typo and should be an AMD 1700 CPU. If it is, there is a bug concerning AMD Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs which is causing exactly those random freezes. You have to disable all the C-states in the BIOS to stop this from happening. You could use something like uptime kuma to easily see if the server is still running or not, but you would need to install it on another server/pc and have it running there to get proper tracking.

Looks like I have the same issue. Spent an hour last night setting up Home Assistant for the first time and connecting all my devices. Opened it again today to view some stats only to see a message that I have no devices set up... Logs:

So, I have a few questions. 1. My server, an old 170z system 32 gig ram 1070 gpu, likes to randomly "freeze". It wont show up on the network, I cant ssh into it, and, as far as i can tell, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. The only thing i can do is a hard shutdown, which i do not like doing because its running off 4 nas HDD's and I know a hard shut down is not a fun thing for them. I'm sure its a hardware issue since my mobo is an old msi gaming z, that has the problem that it will thermal throttle the cpu even if its below 70C. I had to disable the temp monitoring in bios and it works good as "new". I'm wondering if this is an issue that is common or just something my system is doing. 2. Is there a way to get the system to show a display after the monitor turns off. My system shows a display when it first turns on, but as soon as i shut off the monitor and turn it back on; it will not display a picture until it is rebooted. I did a test today and shut off the monitor and turned it right back on and no signal. 3. If i buy a remote management pcie card can i hook it up to a laptop to monitor the system instead of having to ssh into it using command line? In tech youtuber videos they just walk up to their rack, open a laptop, and off they go doing stuff in their server. I only ask because of issue #1. with the system in headless mode; I cannot see what it is trying to do when it "freezes". I would like a way to be able to give it a command to restart.

We now have one: Custom Install Scripts - HexOS Hub

Not a recommendation, there probably is or will be a better place to follow it at some point. But, if you want all the docs development notifications, it's open source! So you can follow the progress here

Any update on the migration guide? Anywhere for us to watch for a notification that it's been posted?

at this time it will have to be done via the underlying truenas interface

I just tried replacing a drive with a larger capacity drive and hexos says it wont allow me and i need a "suitable candidate". is there something special I have to add a 16tb drive to the pool of 12tb drives?

I wanted to name Network 1 and Network 2 with Display Names like 1G or 10G. Thought maybe those were reserved names so I tried to name it Slippy. Nope. Same error 500. Full page error. Very limited information. Hope this helps. 500 this._def.values is not iterable

Would love this as well.

The restart fixed the issue 🙄

the main focus of hexos would be a more user friendly experience. (it is a work in progress) there is a decent amount of overlap with the other features that TN connect has though.

this is the reason why, I have many apps and can't remember all of the links

Welcome Capox! HexOS license are easily transferred, so you need not worry! Many of us do have multiple licenses however, as we have multiple machines we are running at once. A local backup server, and a physically remote one for off site backups, for example.

In terms of being "correct" even. I use domain names on my network, so the IP address doesn't have the cached credentials. But to PsychoWards point,I think it makes sense to use from a discoverability point of view. You can't google your local network if you don't remember the exact address.