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I love cameras and TV, I worked for my Church and helped them build a TV station. I designed the audio and because of some awards I won i got head hunted by CBS. Worked there for 2.5 years and Wife said I did not make enough money. Make a choice HA!! So went back to Control Systems for HVAC. Back then it was pneumatic (AIR) controls. 0 Pressure was full heat, 7.5 PS was Neutral 8 to 18 PSI was levels of cooling. 18 being 100%. Worked at that and its what I still do but know it's digital controls. Do work for Hospitals, Schools and I have done a lot of work for NASA. So you every check out or hear of partsexpress.com great place to pick up raw speakers and amp really cool stuff there. I just pick up some 4" transducers that you screw to the bottom of your couch or any chair. Add an amp and a crossover for base plug into your TV and you will feel the base hit when it does just like the a game joystick does.

I would like to see first party support for placing any app behind some of the most popular VPNs (PIA, Nord, Express, Proton, Tailscale, etc), as well as custom VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc). For example, you may install “The Lounge” IRC client and have all internet communication pass through a PIA VPN so that your home IP is not exposed while chatting. Traditional methods of doing this involve painful configuration of iptables or other firewall rules. I believe this is an area where HexOS could really simplify things: Install a VPN plugin, authenticate with it, and then simply assign an app to a VPN plugin via the app’s settings if desired. It would be fully accessible from the home network without going through the VPN, but all internet traffic would go through the VPN with a kill switch in case the VPN goes down. Thoughts?

Asus PRIME B450M-A mobo (6 sata ports) 32GB of DDR4 2666MHZ Ryzen 5 3600 MSI Nvidia 1080 Ti 11GB 500GB SATA boot drive 4 WD Red 10TB Raidz2 Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case Drives are separated by plastic shims and thick 3M tape which I'm hoping will reduce the vibration between them. And since I ran out of room I have one standing vertical. Two fans in the front and one in the back. Drive temps stay below 40C

It appears This is the card that will work for you. It seems the card you have won't even take a custom flash for HBA mode

@lostboykev Did you configure the raidz2 pool via TrueNAS?

That's definitely solid

How important is energy usage? The i7-14700K is certainly overkill. You might want to consider some interesting NAS devices that are coming to market soon. For example, check out this video on YouTube (Nascompares). On Nascompares, you can also find guides for installing TrueNAS (and therefore HexOS) on devices like Ugreen, QNAP, and TerraMaster. The advantage is that you get a compact system with everything you need built in. Of course, you can also build your own. In terms of processors, Intel has been better suited for transcoding in recent years. I'm not sure how the latest-gen AMD Ryzen processors compare. On Reddit, I came across a few reviews suggesting that an Intel N305 is already capable of 4K transcoding (though I don’t have personal experience with it). The N305 is also quite energy-efficient. On YouTube, you can find plenty of reviews on Homelab Plex servers. This one by Techno Tim is worth a look: Techno Tim’s review.

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.

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.

As far as physical placement, I don't see any reason that you would need to separate the drives... better to keep them congregated so that if/when you add more drives you don't have to move the existing ones. (though even if you needed to it should be fine since the drives are id'd by their unique id's, which means it shouldn't matter if they change which port they are on). Separating the drives would likely have some impact on performance and longevity, but not enough to worry about in my opinion. Hard drives are pretty much a solved science at this point, and they are designed to operate in proximity with each other. Enterprise drives may be built to handle this better than consumer units, but in a small chassis use case like this even that probably won't make a significant difference. Physical placement won't affect the pool creation directly, that would be more related to which order you plug your SATA cables into the back plane. Even then, it doesn't really matter, it just may change which drive exactly is 'sda', 'sdb', etc. Are you planning to use a HBA card. or native SATA ports off of your motherboard? For 10+ drives I imagine you would need an HBA eventually, but if you are starting with only 4 plus a boot device you could probably do that on most motherboards. If you are using an HBA you may be more easily able to plug the cables into the backplane in numerical order, which in theory would set things up so that your left most drive would start as 'sda', and then proceed through the alphabet, with drive no. 10 being 'sdj', and the boot device potentially being 'sdk'. (And no, I totally didn't have to count out the letters of the alphabet to get that answer... why would you ask such a silly question?? 🤣)

Integrated default reverse proxy for docker apps so all apps available on 443 inside home network. integrated DNS to support app name.internaldomain.com with reverse proxy (this puts all apps on 443) Lets encrypt SSL by default for all apps all user has to do is buy domain name and enter it above and all just works support for split horizon DNS consider running the DNS service for folks to allow tight integration (this shouldn't preclude use of other dns services) this is not me advocating for how to expose anything externally, that's not an argument i want to get into 😉

i added the following folders, Music , Shows and movies. then moved the files into thoes folders