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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.

Thank you for the link. Yes, it's double the size of my current setup. Unfortunately, though, it's more than double the cost for just one drive, as that pricing is in USD. I'm from Canada, so I use Canadian rubles for purchasing. If the only issue is a slow rebuild time in the event of a drive failure, that's more than acceptable to me. I'll already have a nearly complete backup of the data on an external drive device anyway. With that in mind, I'll be searching my local market for these drives, aiming for a price point that's manageable for my budget. This approach would be great because it'd let me repurpose them later, either for a new gaming PC or as reliable external backups. Thank you for all the information!

its not a hexos issue but rather cmr drives don't play nice with raid in general. if you use raid with your drives you are not gonna have a good time regardless of os. you can still use them but they will be slow as sin if you can return then you can get a significantly better value at the same price or less https://www.ebay.com/itm/236143802502 this is in the same price range, sold by seagate themselves, almost double the size, cmr drive and a more vibration resistant enterprise drive. you can probably find even better values since this was less when i bought it a month or 2 ago.

Hello, thank you for your input. I was already aware of the Realtek issues and have purchased an Intel NIC, though it hasn't arrived from my eBay purchase yet. I was not aware of the C-states, so I'll be sure to check that out in my BIOS on my next reboot. Thanks for the heads-up on that. Yes, I currently have one M.2 drive, and it's one of the drives I'm looking to expand. I apologize for not mentioning that in my initial post. I plan to acquire a second M.2 drive specifically for operating system virtualization, which is why I knew I would need a SATA card. Regarding CMR drives, I had no idea about them, but after reviewing their price points, I cannot justify switching to them. If using my current drives is a deal-breaker for HexOS, I will simply switch to an operating system that supports them. Hopefully after buying a HexOs key I'll be able to find a way to make it play nicely with my drives. Thank you again.

Hey, Seems like a decent build and you got some nice value out of it. 🙂 Just a couple of remarks to help with some pitfalls: For Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs you need to disable all the C States in the BIOS to get the server stable, with C states enabled it will freeze at random. Your Motherboard has a Realtek NIC, they are not supported by Hexos due to bad linux drivers, causing stability issues and causing data corruption. Get yourself an Intel NIC which is supported and working out of the box. Return the HDDs and get yourself some CMR drives, the Barracuda drives are SMR drives, which you really shouldn't use in a Raid. 🙂 It looks like your motherboard has 2x m.2 slots and only the 2nd one (M2_2) is sharing bandwidth with a SATA port. As long as you use only 1 M.2 SSD in the M2_1 slot, you can use all 4 SATA ports. If you start with 2 HDDs, Hexos will create a mirror which cannot be extended. If you want to be able to extend the pool in the future you need at least 3 HDDs now to create a RaidZ1.

My HexOS NAS Build: From Inspiration to Reality Hey everyone, I probably should have kicked things off by sharing my planned build before revealing the actual one, but I got a little too excited! So, why this build? I was really inspired by Linus Tech Tips' (LTT) Scrapyard Wars and set out to source as many local, used parts as possible. That proved to be quite a challenge in my area! Then came the announcement for HexOS, which was exactly what I was looking for to build a simple NAS. I started by purchasing a HexOS lifetime key, and then the part-sourcing journey began. Part List: Operating System * HexOS Lifetime Key: $144.88 Core Components * CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 (8C/16T) - $45 (Facebook Marketplace) * CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE - $48.90 (Amazon Marketplace Canada) * Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 R2.0 - $114.96 (Newegg Canada) * Power Supply: MSI A850GL - $183.95 (Best Buy) * RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz - $67.99 (Canada Computers) * Boot Drive: WD Black SN770 500GB - $79.99 (Canada Computers) * Zotac 2060 8GB - $180 (Facebook Marketplace) Storage Drives * Storage Drives (x2): Seagate BarraCuda 8TB 7200 RPM - $224.19 each (Best Buy) Current Case * Thermaltake S200 TG ARGB Plus: $114.96 (Best Buy) This case isn't the final home for the server. Once I acquire the additional HDDs, the server will be migrated to my larger main rig case. The Thermaltake S200 TG ARGB Plus will then be repurposed as the first component for a new gaming rig for my special lady! Future Plans My intention is to add two additional HDDs down the road. I'll need a SATA controller for this, as my boot drive uses one of the available SATA ports. On the bright side, my special lady gave me a "free PC part" coupon worth up to $100, which I plan to use for one of those future HDDs!

Amp as a way to host gameservers

Honestly easiest thing would probably be getting a cheap m.2 to sata adapter so you can plug in all the drives at once and transfer data

correct. Bare metal means installed directly like an OS and not virtually. Proxmox is my choice of hypervisor.

I'm sorry I'm new to this. What does bare metal mean? Do you mean that it's currently running in a virtual environment? Thanks for your reply!

I have 2 instances on R710s running proxmox, not bare metal. No issues at all this way for me.

Hi, I’m new to self-hosting. I got hexOS and used it for a couple of months running a 2 4Tb drive HDD pool to try it out. Got a few apps working and I want to future proof my setup by switching to an 3 20Tb pool. My motherboard has 4 SATA ports. What is the process to transfer everything without loosing any data?

Thank you Soooooooooo Much! I have been running my plex for about 2 weeks without GPU encoding. If anyone is having trouble; go to apps, turn off plex service. click on "configuration", its a drop menu. Go to "Settings" and click "install Nvidia drivers". Then run the commands quoted above! Good luck guys!!!!

lmao I think I missed something. I was just venting, makes me feel better to not keep my feelings bottled up. :D sharing feelings. I'm just glad there's a way to potentially extend win10 support soon since I do not want win11. So it's like need to switch to Linux ASAP and a lot of the hold up is HexOS and it's partially my fault for refusing to learn something that I could very well learn(trueNAS). But I also understand the dev team, as I'm a developer myself and understand how the process works. I hate it, but doesn't mean I have to like it. I really do wish they focused a bit more on apps but they felt different projects were more important. And they probably were since the ZFS Anyraid makes sense to solidify that and that'll be great for users who are not tech savvy or understand certain things about raid.

Any update on this? Just installed Plex and it's put loads of Platform folders on my system. If I try to remove them and just have one called Media then Plex stops working. Ideally each app install should have a single Platform folder if it needs or just all relevant folders be customisable?

AI is telling me that the interfaces should show up under cli, however on my system they dont "Thanks for testing that, Adam — this confirms that the middleware CLI bindings are broken or missing for network.interface.query. That’s not normal behavior, and it suggests one of the following: 🧩 Possible Causes Middlewared service is partially down or corrupted CLI environment is missing bindings (especially in containers or restricted shells) TrueNAS SCALE update failed or left stale config Network config database is malformed or unreadabl" is this an issue ?

updated to ElectricEel-24.10.2.3 now if i have two ethernets up "with a plex server running in apps" the ethernet goes off and online

Hey all! I was lucky enough to get these two machines for free in working order. Would HexOS work with these systems? Does anyone have experience installing HexOS on them? Just wondering what I'm getting myself into before getting into it. Thanks in advance!

I know there was an option to delete it, but I forgot where it was. If you select the old (unavailable) one, do you see a button there that will say: remove from my list?

I am just a forum mod i am not a dev that is part of the eshtek team hence why i don't know what progress has been made Sucks that my earnest response to you has been received poorly.

My NAS has been having issues so I decided to re-install it, However, since I couldn't get into the GUI to remove it form my HexOS account, it's just there still, and I can't add the new one to my account since I only have 1 key. How do I delete this one off my account if I can't access it? edit: sorry I wasn't paying attention to which topic I made this in.

So don't know when it actual happened but today i was able to create a pool with one 500gb SSD that I am using for all my ISO files and it seem to be working great just upload about 60 ISO on there a few minutes ago. Keep up the good work. I would rater wait on proven CODE that have issues that I think its all my fault AH!!! P.S. I have not been around much for the last two months, wife has been in an out of hospital but I am back now.