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I was originally going to go with 10 drives plus 1 spare and no SLOG drive. Then I remembered I had new SSDs laying around for a couple years and my OCD would go nuts knowing I had unfilled bays... so I put HDs in them since I bought a couple extras as emergency spares in case of failure

Im not going to lie, I knew I was buying used drives so I bought the eBay insurance from Allstate Protection for $9.98 for 2 years

I use Proxmox and I installed HexOs in a VM with SATA and NVME passtrough. I am not the only one in this forum with such a setup. In the past I used VMWare ESXi, but since the Broadcom takeover it is not suitable for a homelab anymore.

@Iliyria, Is there a specific reason you created one big RaidZ2 pool with 13 HDDs? Why not e.g. a pool with 7 HDDs and one with 6 HDDs? From what I have read online people recommend raidz2 if the number of disks are between 8 - 12 because the resilver time is too long and there's a high chance of another disk failing during the process. But say that it's better to use less disks in a pool. I try to learn a lot about ZFS.

One thing i was considering going forward was getting amazon refurb drives and getting the ~$200/year asurion insurance for all amazon purchases. It might not be worth it if you don't spend much on amazon but if you do, it looks like a great value. A friend of mine has a toddler who's only hobby is breaking expensive things and he has saved a lot of money with the insurance.

To be honest, I haven't even given it a thought of yet

Please share your experiences. I am looking forward to it. Which VM hosts do you have in mind to start with?

IIll admit it, its partially because I can/could but, Veeam use to beat the crap out of my NAS doing network backups. I like to tinker and all my job VM experience is with Hyper-V, now I can check out other hosts and learn more for the future and be more marketable.

Looks nice! A real homelab monster. Only the amount of memory is a little bit low 😀. Just joking What do you want to do with so much capacity? I am really curious. I don't think you only want to use this machine for storage.

The motherboard on my prior NAS decided to take a take a dirt nap a few weeks ago. I have been thinking about replacing it before hand but this made my decision easier. I wasn't in too much of a hurry and searched eBay for about 2 weeks looking for parts and sending lower offers to sellers for parts to build my new NAS. Finally, after 2-3 weeks its now in my production homelab. I think I got the recertified drives for around 20 bucks or less each. If you are not in a rush and you take your time, you can definitely find deals and build a pretty nice NAS on the cheap cheap... don't forget to haggle with offers! Its very quiet but, it weighs about 80 pounds. Specs: Core chassis: Dell T430 CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2667v4 RAM: 384GB ECC DDR4 (2400) PSUs: Redundant 1100W Platinum HBA: LSI 9300-16i Storage Pool: 13x 4TB SAS 12GBp/s 7.2K drives (in ZFS Z2) Boot Drive: NVMe (Connected to internal USB 3.0) SLOG: 256GB SDD L2ARC: 1TB SSD Transcoding: ARC310 NIC: x710-DA2 SFP+ Fans: All replaced with silent Noctua Extra 5 port drive bay: SilverStone FS305-12G drive cage

I have the same question, how can I change the email address ? thanks

I'm still on version TrueNAS-SCALE-24.10.0.

There was no TrueNas update via HexOs yet. I suspect that you did run the TrueNas update via TrueNas. I think this the reason that you are unable to Connect to the HexOs deck.

I'm still on 24.10.2. According to Truenas I currently have 2 boot environments, 24.10.2 which was created 23/03/2025 and 24.10.0 which was created in 19/12/2024. Guessing that was when it was updated but can't say for sure if it was me or hexos doing it.

Several other users have also a WTR Pro (Intel and AMD version) and are able to run HexOs without any issue. So the hardware is not the problem. Did you run by any change a TrueNas update?

Fairly basic server setup with a N100 CPU (AOOStar WTR PRO with 4x 4tb HDDs <ST4000DM004-2U9104>) Really haven't done much in truenas other than debugging an issue I had with plex so it should be mostly the same as hexOs set it up originally.

what parts are in your servers? is there anything you setup in the truenas interface? (ex. storage pool was made in truenas)

Same here, claimed my server in december last year however for since like February/March I've been unable to connect to the server using the hexos dashboard. Server is up and running, I can see it in the network, I can connect to it using truenas interface, I just can't get hexos to connect to it for some reason...

I got mine yesterday, tested them quickly and they are working. Now I only need to wait for retail to order the Power On/Off accessory

I'm waiting for a few more features and for my new build. I have Unraid running right now with 56TB usable with 1 spare drive and I want to migrate that over to HexOS but migrating ZFS pools is not possible yet. I also want to upgrade to a new server that has more capability dual 14 core Xeon 192 GB ram 60TB usable with two spare drives.

My only issue with my JetKVM, is that it's not yet possible for me to order more of them.. 😛

I think your limit would hit your transcode device first unless you are using an Nvidia card. I only say Nvidia because I haven't been able to get my AMD card to transcode. I think LTT did a video on it a while back and showed that even a cheap card meant you could upload to several clients at once.

There aren't any drivers to install but people have struggled getting arc cards to work for transcoding. There should be a few threads on it but i haven't really kept up with them since i didn't plan on using arc cards myself

Pinging @jonp He might have some better insight

I've had my license for years and I've watched things fall off over time. I wish that they would be brought back. The image backup so I didn't need a different program was nice. Plugins to add functionality also nice. Downloading copies to my clients used to work well. So many things used to work well and instead of fixing the issues with those things that have since broken they have instead focused on adding free content to watch. While I like the on-demand things I would prefer to have all the features I started with working. At the same time the price made sense then and I've had it for over ten years so yeah, I'd do it again. My biggest issue with all of it is the privacy thing. It feels like they are going to start selling my data any minute now.