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Ability to have 1 drive in a storage pool

I know this has been mentioned before, but once V1 goes live, i'm sure the Hex team will still need people to be beta testers going forward. Many here will be unable or unwilling to do so for a variety of reasons, which is fine. There are more than enough in the community to help the Hex team! I'm in the camp of owning 2 licences, one for my onsite server, and another running my offsite one, which personally once V1 lands would primarily wish both to be running stable releases and consider these sites mission critical. But I do have another smaller server, that is already loaded with HexOS (just not activated) ready to be a guinea pig! So this is me saying; A. I'd love to be a beta tester moving forward to continue to support Hex as it grows. 🚀 B. To do so i'd need an extra licence for this test device. 👀 C. Creating this thread for others to comment, if they too would also like to be an ongoing tester, so the Hex team has visibility of those users. 💜 Tagging the hex team and the more active community members! @Dylan @Mawson @Mobius @jonp

Hello, I just bought HexOS in hopes for saving up money one-day for a NAS of my own to host my own Jellyfin server. I just wanted to voice my interest to try to help towards getting it pushed up in priority. Linus if you can help with NAS suggestions I would appreciate it.

I would love for there to be a really clear layout as to what's happening/planned for the future and roughly when we can maybe expect it. I get that life's probably still a little crazy back there but it would be nice to just have a rough idea of when the features that im particularly looking forward to can be expected.

Intel states that the N100 CPU has a max RAM capacity of 16GB but I just upgraded my Aoostar WTR Pro with a single 32GB SODIMM and it not only reports all available GB, but when tested, also utilized the increased RAM as well. Just a friendly PSA in-case you might also have the same chipset and would like to upgrade your RAM. Cheers and good luck!!

@Mobius there’s a setting in your notifications section that allows you to auto follow your own posts and comments! Super helpful.

yeah i dont mind testing things.

Have you tried removing the ".tmp" extension as suggested here? I had to do that before transcoding would work for me.

From here : https://forums.truenas.com/t/intel-arc-pro-a40-support/22352 Yes, seems to be great !

Something to consider is that SSDs are more power efficient than HDDs, albeit at a higher price / TB. I couldn't stand the clicking of the HDDs in my NAS in my office, but the power savings are also nice for something on 24/7

That case looks great. I'm sure you could 3D print some more drive cages to fill up that entire vertical stack with drives. Have you used the RX580 for plex before? I wonder how many streams it can handle

I work for Trane Technologies!

Anything for cause @PsychoWards! I used the CORSAIR Vengeance. ****Of note for my specific NAS (see above Aoostar link) upon replacement, the initial boot appeared to fail as the outboard power LED flashed then went dark, indicating a failed boot. However, the NAS device audibly continued to boot (fans running etc) so I just let it sit for a minute or so. Afterwards, the power LED returned. I ASSUME that, because I do not have a monitor connected, this was what might happen any other time you replace RAM and the system POST process issues a 'RAM has changed' warning. (edit to add @Kpod for visibility)

Oh, that's awesome to hear. I've a N100 running Opnsense with only 8GB of memory, doubt I will ever need more, but it's really helpful information, I can imagine a lot of people are running N100 in there NAS. Would you mind sharing which module you got? 🙂

If you missed that option (like me 😬) during your install you can also do it after the fact

Update, the pièce-de-résistance, the case: After hearing about it from another user on this forum (@Clixxi), I was pretty hooked on going for the Jonsbo N5. Still need to get a few more expansion cards in the mail before I get to put it all together, but I'm not gonna be strapped for drive bays.

I'm ripping blu-rays while I'm at my desk (which is a lot) It typically takes 15-20 minutes per blu-ray to finish. It's been an adventure, but I'm loving it!

Yes, there are about 100 atoms of air between the read/write head and the platter. That's a 15nm gap and you can buy them at your local supermarket!!! How do Hard Disk Drives Work Also, I have found a solution: I turn my NAS off whenever I'm not home and sleeping.

That machine would require two licenses, as it is technically two machines in one chassis, and would require two installs of HexOS.

I think anyone that is willing to drop $300 on an operating system is probably willing to spend $20 on RAM, maybe even less if you salvage old parts.

how will HexOS receive updates will we need to reinstall until its out of beta or will it start prompting us to update it via the cloud dashboard?

I will be having family use my server for backing stuff up and as we all know end users always end up accidently deleting things and then wanting them back. Luckily, TrueNAS has a recycle bin option and hopefully HexOS can add it in one day as a setting that can just be turned on. For anyone who finds this and wants to do it, here are the steps: Set up the folder in the HexOS UI and then in the TrueNAS UI go to: Shares > Click edit on the SMB you want to add the recycle bin too > Purpose = No Presets > Click Advanced Options > Scroll to Other Options > Check Export Recycle Bin Then you will want to set up a job to automatically empty your recycle bin: Navigate to Chron Jobs in the TrueNas UI (just search for it but it's under System > Advanced Settings). Click add then you can either enter this into the command field as ONE LINE or save it to a file find /mnt/HDDs/FOLDER/.recycle/* -atime +30 -delete; find /mnt/HDDs/FOLDER/.recycle/* -depth -type d -empty -delete; If you want to test to see what files will be deleted with this command run it without the "-delete" If you save it to a file (like I did) you will enter this as the command. sh /mnt/HDDs/PATH_TO_FILE/empty_recycle_bin.sh Then just fill out the description, run as truenas_admin, and how often you want it to run and you are good to go. Hope this helps and hopefully it can just be a 1 click type of setup in the future!! P.S. Here is what the commands do: The first command searches for files and directories in /mnt/HDDs/FOLDER/.recycle/ that have not been accessed in the last 30 days and deletes them. The second command searches for empty directories in /mnt/HDDs/FOLDER/.recycle/ and deletes them. Also commands were stolen from here

Something like caddy-docker-proxy, traefik or nginx-proxy-manager would probably make it a lot easier.

Do you have a release date for this?

I'd love to see dynamic DNS support as well. It was a pain to set up Caddy due to an incorrect number of brackets 😕

I would like one drive sync.. like I do now with my Synology. 🤞

Jellyfin, Home Assistant and Tailscale would be nice. Also support for Ollama local AI with Nividia GPU support would be great. If possible, I would like support for VLAN's, so I could expose the Home Assistant app to my smart home network and my Windows VM to my private network. If VLAN's are too difficult, maybe have the option to expose an app to a specific NIC? Same with shares. I like that you can select the user and the permissions, but I would also like to see the option to select a specific NIC of VLAN to expose the share to.