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I will check the HBA this weekend and report back. The only thing left to source would be RAM, how much and what type. Would I want to populate all 3 channels? From what I've found so far it seems getting it maxed out would be relatively inexpensive since the unit was free. 2 - 5690's - $50 Heatsink - $5 to $10 Fan (one is not populated - $10 RAM - Page 129 : Shows some of my options. What would be the best option for me in populating the slots on each side if I went with dual CPU's? I'm excited to get this up and running. Thank you for all of your insights!

This is my first time also self hosting through Hexos. I’ve gotten comfortable with using a Cloudflared tunnel and zero trust with a personal domain to get access to applications off-site but it has been hours of work. I think, if they can, add something that would automatically allow the applications to be updated with correct env settings it would be huge for so many people. I know with Immich it would need to be a little different since they don’t (yet) have chunked uploads so I had to enable automatic url switching whenever I’m back on the home network. Otherwise, using something like Nginx reverse proxy and a DNS would be awesome to set up as well. So many things they have the ability to make easy for everyone it’s exciting!

Personal opinion inbound: Yes to the jump from a single quad core CPU to two hex core CPUs. But you really need more RAM as well. I would definitely go for more RAM as HexOS requirements state 8Gb minimum and you only have half that. See what kind of cost various RAM upgrade options are. Aim for 8Gb minimum, but see what prices you can get for 16, 32 or higher kits. Registered if possible, as that gives the highest ceiling overall. As mentioned by @ubergeek - knowing which HBA is in the system is also key for your storage options.

I question what HBA is in the devices

HexOS is my first experience with self-hosting, so installing apps has been an exercise in frustration for me. My main desire is to do local backups and local password management, so I was able to get Vaultwarden working and connected through desktop browser extension, but mobile app connection still doesn't work. I believe it requires an https connection, but I wasn't able to get certs working and npm installed correctly, so now I access two identical databases, one local from my desktop and one in the cloud from my phone.

I have this same experience. The NAS functionality is pretty stable.

This would be a nice feature. A lot of people struggle with reverse proxy setup.

There are 40TB drives, you just can't buy them and they are not yet being mass produced. (https://www.techradar.com/pro/seagate-confirms-40tb-hard-drives-have-already-been-shipped-but-dont-expect-them-to-go-on-sale-till-2026) Biggest you can buy as far as I know would be 36TB, but it's SMR and not sure if it is available to consumers (https://www.seagate.com/products/enterprise-drives/exos/exos-m/) If you are willing to pay quite a bit more you can get SSDs in even larger capacities, for example these here in 245,76TB (https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/news/2025/ssd-20250721-1.html)

i wish there were 40 Tb drives

oops typo 4 TB

didn't realize the 40tb drives were already available. just make sure they are not smr drives. you want cmr drives.

So I finally cracked open the R710 server. I have a single 5520 and 2 - 2gb sticks of ram. I looked on ebay and found matching 5690's for only 50 dollars. Do you think it's worth having 2 2690s?thakks!

+1. the amount of time I've spent trying to configure things through njinx proxy manager and have it not work is silly. If they offered a solution, even if it only worked with official apps at first, I'd reinstall Hex right away

Only Thing I have Shelved was more drives, I have been working threw the current build and found once it is deployed and running " with out the HBA card in my system dying " it has been solid

My first Hex Os build will be N100 Industrial Motherboard NAS 4 Cores 4 Threads Low Power Processor 4x2.5G i226 Network M.2 Slot 10Gtek M.2 to SATA Adapter, M Key to SATA3.0 Card, ASMedia ASM1166 Chip 6 x sata - 3 X BX500 480GB SSD Micron 6xSATA 3 x Seagate 40 TB DP HDMI 2.0 PCIE ×1 .1* M2_ SSD NVME/NGFF+ 1*M.2_ NVME TN320 256GB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0x4 M.2 2280 3D NAND any thaughts

While there are a lot of things for the dev' team to work on, out of the box the initial release of HexOS delivered a simple but functional and stable NAS software solution. To be honest I've gained all the NAS functionality I wanted (using inexpensive hardware), and learnt a lot along the way, worth every cent of the $99 licence I think...

Remember you can tell it to not do this on library change and instead do it as a scheduled task so you can have it run overnight so you don't notice. Just make sure your timezone is correct! Mine was set midnight to 6am but the timezone being wrong meant it took place during the day until I noticed. 🤣

I have Plex as an app with a Media dataset. If I end up installing Sonarr, etc, I will install them as apps again. Not currently possible as one-click through HexOS but it can be done in TrueNas and once you get your head around storage it's not too complicated. The benefit of TrueNAS for me is not having to use Windows so the last thing I'd want is a Windows VM.

glad i could help

Thank you!

You do have similar priced 8 TB CMR drives, although a bit more expensive: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/seagate-ironwolf-8tb-3-5-5400rpm-sata-desktop-internal-hard-drive-st8000vnz04/19186378 https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/wd-red-plus-8tb-5640rpm-sata-internal-nas-hard-drive-wd80efpx/17935390 You might not notice anything now, but once SMR drives hit a certain capacity threshold you will notice it. You can make it work with SMR drives, but expect some weird performance issues down the road, just something to keep in mind. 🙂

Assuming a user is aware of its existence before the boot drive dies, I would think downloading the TrueNAS configuration file (system - general settings - manage configuration - download file) so it can be imported after reinstall would save some time here. I've never done so, but it claims to contain accounts, shares etc. Personally, I'd consider a user friendly way to recover from boot drive failure to be a core HexOS feature, but I've seen no mention of any plans.

I'd settle for the apps already supposedly supported to actually be supported. Thinking of Immich, which they claimed they would look into but I haven't noticed any updates on, and once the storage setup does go deprecated and prevents updating (or worse, breaks on an update) that'll be too late.

Yes, I've seen similar drives, but for what I bought 8TB for, they're only offering 2TB. So, the price point was just too steep to consider switching to them. At the moment, with my two drives in a mirrored setup, I've had no issues with speed for the way I'm using the system; it's actually exceeded my expectations. This system is just for serving my media through Jellyfin and Navidrome, as well as running Tdarr for conversions.

its not just slow during rebuild but slow during all operations. ahh candian dollars. you should be able to find similarly priced exos drives as well at smaller sizes.