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@Mawson @Dylan @ubergeek @Mobius - Great job all, keep up the good work! 💜 Link

Hold on , got to have my school girl that just won some KPOP tickets moment. Thanks @jonp for taking the dive and for everyone else that is making this a awesome community. I am along for the ride to see where HexOS take us during the road to Alpha.

In all seriousness, it doesn’t go past any of us here at Eshtek on how much you guys are doing here and helping us and this community. We greatly appreciate it.

how you think i get my gains? I dead lift loaded 4u's for fun lol

Wanna make it funnier? Just know im 6'4 280lb kmsl

"Mom, get the camera!"

wow never thought i would ever get a shout out on LTT. Thanks @jonp

So the main thing i do with my home lab setup is audio backup of my Mix and Master library. Right now I have about 7TB of audio files of bands I have done in the last few years and also the master files of some of there albums. Some times maybe a year or to later they want to redo a older song and all i have to do is pull in the archive. No one makes a good database to store archives of recorded music for studio work. That's something I am waiting to play with just need to get my network where i can. I have a 16 ch digital board and a 32 ch rack mixer. Using the two together i can record live 32 ch of music with 16 monitor mix going to the stage for ear and stage mix. The really cool thing is I don't need a Snake from the board to the stage I use a special cat6 cable that carries all 32 ch of audio and 16 channels of monitor and the two main sends to the stage on that cat6 cable. Its call AVB networking and I have a special AVB router that i use to tie in other AVB equipment. AVB is old and Cisco signed an agreement to support the AVB protocol on there switches 14 years ago but have never really done it. So if you are into music. Live or recorded sound jump in I toured for 18 years and have worked for the USO and the Stars and Stripes in Iraq in 2005 to late 2007 so I have been around any help on speakers or just where to pick up stuff for cars or what ever give a yell.

Is this conversation going to morph into a “my racks bigger than yours” one 🤣

Man, I've spent all day in my attic with a contractor trying to figure out how to update the 30 year old cabling that is my house. Why? Because I have a new NAS, new mesh router system and a fun new OS. And feeling a little remiss that I've not been able to get online much recently. This thread? This thread had me feeling like Thank you @jonp @Theo @Mobius @Mawson @ubergeek and all HexHeads for your time, patience and contributions. This is going to be a helluva ride!!! 😛

i'm picturing this haha

No, thank you & the rest of the (now expanding) Eshtek team! we all appreciate it's gone from 0-100 VERY quickly, so anything we can do to help this product & community grow, we're here for it all!

In need of a proper invoice to, taxes are due end of this month... Need this resolved asap.

On the bench today I have an old Fujitsu Futro S930, running an AMD GX-424CC (2.4GHz quad core) and 16GB DDR3-1600. Boot pool is an mSATA SSD on the board and a SATA SSD in the 'expansion bay' area, both directly connected to the SOC via the motherboard headers. Storage pool is 4 x SATA SSDs also in the 'expansion bay' under the PCIE riser. HBA (connected to PCIE riser) is a 81Y4494 4-channel SATA 'IT mode' card. 2.5GbE (NGFF) mPCIE card. Power consumption as measured from the outlet: Idle - 15W Load - 32W (Writing @ 2Gbps) Challenges with this one: 1 - Manual BIOS modification required to change the PCIE speed (for NIC and HBA) from gen1 to gen2. For more info, check out this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1d722m5/first_homelab_fujitsu_futro_s920/?rdt=65533 2 - Not a lot of space so the SSDs had to be removed from their 'housing' and stacked on m2 pillars (like motherboard standoffs but smaller...) 3 - Powering the SSDs; I had to make up a custom cable for this, splitting off from the ATX header (uses same connector as a FDD) on the motherboard. I cut and soldered together a FDD power cable from a scrap PSU, and some USB Header to SATA cables like these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205143130740?var=505859057128 I'm currently testing Plex with no issues so far, it's happy trans-coding a 4K BD-'backup' to my phone while also streaming other media to a couple of clients, while being hit with Crystal Disk Mark at the same time. When streaming DVD-'Backups' to 2 clients the power consumption settled down to just 17W. This box is fanless and completely silent, but it needs to be stood on it's end to encourage enough natural convection through it's internals. In particular I noted that the PCIE SATA card gets rather warm, like many others I've seen it's designed to be fitted in a conventional server with quite aggressive case/chassis cooling.

Exactly! It's one of the reasons I want to build a comprehensive hardware database for HexOS (obviously opt-in). There are a lot of details with hardware that aren't exposed when buying that we could start to map for folks who took the plunge without the insights. Boot up, run a little scan of how the IOMMU groups layout, what happens when you try to pass through a GPU, etc. and then create a filterable database for users to search and get more details. So many ways to improve UX here beyond just the software.

Absolutely guys. For this first phase of launch we went with minimalistic approach. This way we can narrow our support focus. We will be turning on 2FA in the near term.