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so i would like it to fit in a networking cabinet, which is not as deep.. i am also not married with a rack mount, if it's a simple form factor as a tower, that';s fine. i currently have a synology DS3615 with 1 expansion bay which is perfect as a form factor.

I don't think what you want is possible in a single chassis. One of the only half depth chassis i can think of is the Sliger CX3701. (by half depth i am assuming you mean 15" or shorter" It's 3u, can fit a mITX motherboard only and has 10 bays of storage. Every mITX mobo i can find only has one pcie slot. But even then i don't think you can find an elegant way to get enough sata ports with a mITX mobo to 10 internal drives and 14 more external drives even with hbas since i don't think broadcom makes a 16e8i hba. The only way i can think of is getting a 24 internal hba and have 14 go outside the case and 8 stay inside and use 2 mobo sata. things do change a little bit if you have space for 18" depth. The Sliger CX3702 can support mATX mobo and some of those do have multiple pcie slots letting you use 2 different hba cards. That said i still can't think of any external enclosures that'll fit the extra drives. Without depth as a factor, so used super micro stuff might work for you? TLDR: i can't think of any good options for half depth.

Perhaps 45drives / 45homelabs suits your needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibrOOaYNtJ4 https://45homelab.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopoy3DLgbUc0gcO-KJF9JSFQdNElCXuwmDG4ASU0pnspj5Lc8fe

thanks @stringtrain i kinda got to that point. but that brings me back to the original issue.. i can either go with something reliable, like an old HP storage chassis which introduces a crazy amount of noise, or i can go with things like an icybox solution. which is frankly, going to fail thanks to power buttons per bay etc. etc. there just doesn't seem to be an off the shelf solution on which hexos will play nicely 😞

@PsychoWards didn't know that, thanks for the heads up! @Sonic I believe my USW-24 is passively cooled, but it's hooked up to a UDM Pro SE which should have a CPU fan and a chassis fan, and the room has both air conditioning and a Vornado air circulator. I think it should be fine. thanks for the responses 🙂

Got a new Intel X550-10G-2T-X8 card and it finds the new card just fine. Thanks for the recommendation!

Aren't you better off buying a disk shelf for your server rack? Those will hold 12 or 24 3.5in drives. You can often find them used for reasonably cheap prices, often pre-populated with old drives. This isn't bad, because even if the drives aren't useful to you, the sleds are. You can always on-sell old drives if you want. You can use SAS or SATA drives in a disk shelf, just don't mix them, stick to one type of drive per shelf. For commercial use disk shelves always plug in to a controller unit that acts as the brains of the NAS, controlling the dozens of drives for the network. You don't need that tho. Home rack folks will often just use a PC with a HBA card with external ports (eg. SFF-8088 ports on a HBA card from LSI), and connect that to the disk shelves with SAS cables. Or you could buy the rackmount control unit used too. They aren't much, and if you want to upgrade from SAS (3Gbps) to SAS2 (6Gbps) or SAS3 (12Gbps) controllers, then they're modular upgrades. The biggest drawback is probably noise from all of those drives working and fans to keep the HDDs and PSUs cool. Seeing as you're already going with rackmount tho, I guess that noise isn't a concern in your setup. caveat: I haven't done this myself. I researched it and ended up passing because I can't manage the noise in my living situation. Otherwise, it's easily the cheapest and cleanest way to 100TB+ storage levels so long as you buy used gear. Need more storage later? Add another disk shelf to your rack.

Should be 6.6.44

curious what's current kernel version?

It all depends of the purpose of your NAS. If you want a rock solid storage for all your important data, don't go this path. If you like the experiment and want to investigate the cutting edge of technology, go ahead. I did a quick search, but I can't find BC-250's for $50. And BC-250 draw a lot of power. So if you want a affordable solutions, there a better options in the market.

@iruixos, is the device with the 10G SFP+ interface active cooled?

Tried to be precise and forgot to be polite, I am sorry. 🫣Thanks for reading.

Sure thing ^_^ I think I will have a little fun with it as well and make a video guide to accompany a text guide XD its been awhile since I've done something fun for media production.

I would like to see an option of an one click full disk encryption at system setup (or disk/pool or per application setup). Then it should work like in the TrueNAS interface with a warning ⚠️ about the possibility to lose all data if the corresponding password/key is not stored properly and so on... It would be preferable to encrypt all the folders below automatically too, since the title “Full disk encryption ...".

Hey, Yes this should work fine. Just the obligatory warning that those SFP+ Modules with RJ45 are running hot and require a lot more energy compared to fibre optics. So make sure you have airflow/cooling on your switch.

Hi all, sorry if this has been asked already. I'm wondering if it's possible to use a Cat7 cable connected from the 10G port on a UGREEN NASync device to a 10G SFP interface using one of these: 10Gtek SFP+ to RJ45 Copper Module - 10GBase-T Transceiver for Cisco SFP-10G-T-S, Ubiquiti unifi UF-RJ45-10G, Netgear, D-Link, Mikrotik, Meraki, Linksys and More, up to 30m 10Gtek 1.25/2.5/5/10G-T SFP+ to RJ45 Copper Module - 10GBase-T Transceiver for Cisco SFP-10G-T-S Ubiquiti unifi UF-RJ45-10G D-Link Supermicro Broadcom Linksys up to 30m Pack of 2 : Amazon.ca: Electronics Thanks for the help.

A more applicable HBA. https://a.co/d/dFE7WeW

Cant wait to see what your problem with Immich is/was. :P Took me a bit to get it working.

I have not purchased one yet. But I'm willing and really want to try it. I do understand that this is not even remotely designed for this but all the bits and pieces seem to be there. I feel like it could be pretty stout home server especially for the price per pony, And that were mostly/primarily using this in a headless configuration. I can come up with an enclosure solution later. I have also found some adapters to use a more standard CPU cooler which should reduce noise. I'm thinking a single size 120x120mm aio type would be neat. Albeit for fedora... If you want to take a peek, This post claims to fix the driver issues related to the GPU. https://github.com/mothenjoyer69/bc250-documentation This is the video that seems most successful. Albeit for gaming use(steam machine-ish). I considered using and adapter like these... https://a.co/d/fK0bfUC Or This adapter with an HBA. https://a.co/d/eUbo7FC https://a.co/d/cgmL5OX Let me know what you think.

So you want parity pricing for your costs, what about parity pricing to support all of the developers cost of living, the price for HexOS is very reasonable. What you are asking for is unrealistic.

I'm in a city in my country which is in the top 3 in terms of cost of living, and I make a few percentages over the median income for this city. Despite that, the HexOS license would cost close to 30% of my monthly wages just to put things in perspective. Plenty of software solutions for this reason use a parity pricing model to take into account wages differences across the globe. I understand this is easier said than done with the product's cost of development and investor interests. But it might actually add more to the community and popularity of the platform as well. Plenty of software products do it for the same reason. Just my two cents.

Hey, Yes Realtek doesn't play nice with Hexos and WiFi is not supported at all. If you are looking for a PCIe NIC go with an Intel NIC, if you want to have 10Gbps, go with sth. Like an Intel X520 or X540 depending if you want SFP+(X520) or RJ45 (X540)

Gigabyte Z890 Gaming X Wifi7 motherboard (intel) The specs of the motherboard list Realtek® 2.5GbE LAN chip (2.5 Gbps/1 Gbps/100 Mbps) The Wifi MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 MT7925 Neither of the interfaces appear to have been found.. Opening a linux shell just shows the loopback interface "lo" I see from other posts realtek ethernet adapters appear to cause issues. Is it best to get an add in card? If so what would be a good 10gbs that is known to work with HexOS?

The BC-250 is the apu used in the PS5. I have seen Reddit Posts of people who are running Linux on a BC-250, but not without issues. It is experimental. Do you already own a BC250? In that case, Lets give it a try. If you have to buy one, perhaps there are better options.

I'll have another go at recreating the installer, many thanks.