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I decided to go with 18 sticks of 8gb ecc ram, and picked up 2 5570's. Unfortunately I'm over budget on power so I'll be sourcing the 870w psu's. Just waiting now on the final fan. My next question is how to stuff my 3090 or 3060 in it to power an LLM? I know I'll need an external psu. I found this video and the last option sounds like it's the way to go? Anyone have advice? I'm having fun! The latest photos

I dig tunnels 😉

I bought the Lifetime Plex Pass before the price increase to not have to care about the subscription. With Immich, I will just wait and see for now until Immich is stable and HexOS ready for it. Hopefully, by then it won't be too much trouble.

100%. We are opening that up this week and doing a little forum reorg. Support forums will still be locked to paid customers only, but announcements will be opened up.

@jonp Part of the problem might be that the Announcements section is locked down. If you come to the site not logged in, or, like myself, have not purchased a license yet, you cannot see any of the progress your team is making. Just my two cents though.

I started off with Plex but couldn't get my head around their subscription model changes so abandoned it. I'd be interested to hear how you get on with Immich though. I currently use SMBSync2 to backup from my Android devices to my NAS. SMBSync2 no longer listed on the PlayStore, but you can still get it from GitHub https://github.com/Sentaroh/SMBSync2 This only works when you're on your local network, but on the flip side you don't need any additional services / apps running on the NAS as it reads/writes directly from/to the shares.

as someone with only 192gb ram, i think daily about how much better my life would have been if i had 256gb ram instead half kidding, maybe 3/4ths kidding

A reorganization of the forums is in the works and the team is aware that having a few sections hidden can be a bit confusing.

highly highly recommend you post your parts list PRIOR to purchasing things. There are so many gotchas in server building that was never relevant in pc building. honestly even i wish i had someone check my parts list prior. Now after making all the mistakes i'm able to point everyone else in the right direction 😅

so you can put certain apps behind vpn but you would have to do that via docker compose using gluetun. a couple weeks ago i did set it up but i had no idea what i was doing and stumbled my way into getting it working by accident

depending how large of storage you plan to use as much as you can afford. I run 32gb in my system but wish it was 64 or 128

How do you do this on Unifi? I didn't think it was possible - Don't suppose you have a guide?

I knew I wasn't going to use it immediately when I bought it in December. Right now I am figuring out the HW and the use case is to have a Plex server. Nothing fancy, so HexOS is mature enough for that already. Next step for me will be Immich, which clearly needs a bit more time, but Immich itself is planned to go stable this year. No reason to expect HexOS to have Immich figured out before then.

I'll just answer myself. It is. I had previosly updated TrueNas to Fangtooth which is not supported and I messed up the boot pool so I wanted to reinstall but was worried about it (I was thinking on just dropping HexOS and use TrueNas directly with the latest version). I was able to reinstall everything following these steps (I had a recent copy of the truenas config): Follow steps 1 to 6 Update TrueNas from the UI to Fangtooth Reimport TrueNas config profit This was easier than I though and I didn't lose any data.

Hi, is it possible to recover using the truenas config?

Definitely appreciate the feedback. We acknowledge there are multiple areas for improvement, especially in how we communicate and relay information.

Yeah I couldn't decide on drives either. I found HDDs too slow to run VMs, and never spin down if apps were using them for storage. I experimented with an 'all NVME' setup (using small/cheap/spare drives) and found it suited my needs very well, so have just gone ahead and ordered 4 X 1TB WD Red drives for my next re-build. I don't know about the rest of the world, but if you order them direct from Sandisk (2 or 4 at a time) you can get them really cheap... https://shop.sandisk.com/en-gb/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-red-sn700-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0 I'll put it up in the 'show and tell' in due course...

It's not about delivering on a milestone promise, it's about how customers experience the product. Imagine being someone who thinks they're buying a "plug and play" NAS software, meant to hide the complexities. They particularly like the idea of local image storage. They pay $200 for HexOS. They install it, see Immich, and find that it doesn't install. Assuming this person was not involved in the forums, this was their experience of the product between the time app installations and updates stopped working in last year's TrueNAS version, and the delivery of the Q2 update where (if I remember correctly) there was a prompt to update TrueNAS. And now? Same thing. A new customer would again see a broken feature. Assuming they do go to the forums they see it's supposedly "top priority" to fix, but a month and a half later the response is "wait and see in Q3". Your perspective as a company seems to be entirely technology focused, but you have users now. Who are customers. They're not all geeks. They don't all read forums. I think it would be a good idea to spend a bit more time considering how they experience the product and any issues with it. That doesn't necessarily mean throwing everything else on the back burner to hurry up and fix an issue immediately, but at least surfacing information in the HexOS interface where most people would expect it to show up, might be a good idea. I can think of no good reason for instead letting users just try and fail to use a feature that is currently known to be broken. My intent here isn't to bash. It's the same type of feedback I give our R&D department where I work, when they try to release products that are fine for a technical person, but six months away from being ready for consumers. They can get laser focused on making the technical side work, and aren't always able to take a step back and think like a user. If you (as in the company) don't really care, fine, it's your business. I think you _should_ care more than you seem to be doing, is all I'm saying. 🙂 I won't flog this horse any more now. No need to respond, I just hope it's taken onboard as constructive feedback.

Thoroughly agree. We will improve the labeling of updates going forward.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here. It is to the best of my knowledge not yet implemented. Or am I mistaken and just unable to find it in the UI?

As it is about time I make use of my license, I was browsing the forums. I wanted to make a new topic, so I log in and *poof* two new sections appear. Could it be made clear that some sections are hidden until you log in (and own a license, if that is the actual requirement)?

As someone who just logged back in after months of not paying attention, I have to admit I was also under the impression the Q2 update didn't ship yet. In the announcement forum there is a topic with "HexOS Q2 Update Imminent", but nothing really obvious that it did ship. I personally wouldn't have been able to tell that the linked topic is the one of the Q2 update. Just wanted to throw this in here.

Is this H700 what you were talking about? I was able to get it installed with 4gb of ram 🤣. With all the potential applications there are and how inexpensive DDR3 ram is, how much ram should I consider getting?

In early June, there was an issue with HexOS where users couldn't download and install either of our curated apps. That issue was resolved with the Q2 update allowing users to update to 24.10.2.2. Separately, an issue with the storage configuration on Immich creeped up at the end of Q2 as well. Apps is the refocus of our attention for Q3 as we prepare to deploy a new templating system for curations that should improve our efficiency at both supporting what we have and adding more. We delivered on our promises for Q2 and now we're working on Q3. Not everyone is going to be happy with the pace, the order we choose to attack things, or how we communicate. All I can ask is to judge us based on what we deliver this year.

Can I add a quick(ish) whine? Immich. It's one of two supposedly supported applications, and sorting out its issue with HexOS using a now deprecated storage configuration was claimed as "a top priority". In June. I haven't spotted any updates in this regard. The deprecation message is still present for current installations, and based on comments here in the forums new installations have been non-functional for a while now. If that's the case, I'd call it unprofessional that it's still listed as a recommended app in the HexOS UI, with no indication of any known issues. Personally, I care much more about feeling like the current version of HexOS is actually being supported, than hearing about forthcoming features. I find the prioritization of what to focus on quite odd. This product is not a free alpha, it's an expensive beta. I think it's fair to expect better support of existing features, or at the very least UI updates indicating that something is broken and linking to up-to-date information (it should not be expected that everyone's active in the forums). Like it or not, once money was exchanged this ceased to be a hobby project, but to me it feels like it's still being treated as one. Even just information would go a long way. Is the plan to automate a fix of existing installations? Is it only to fix the initial installation process (if that hasn't already been done)? If no automatic fix is planned, will there be a step-by-step guide published for how to do it? Why is it taking so long? Instead, I haven't seen any mention of the issue since that post in June (though I might have missed it mentioned in some forum post, of course). This, to me, is not congruent with it supposedly being an issue of top priority.