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My system is a Dell PowerEdge r730XD it came with no drives. I upgraded the 2 CPU's to Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 v3 12 cores. These gives me 48 total cores. The memory is just 32gb for now I am going to upgrade it to 128 or 256 have not decided on that yet. I upgrade the Raid module to a mini300 flashed for IT mode and also add the rear 2 2.5 drive board in the back. I bought 20 900GB 10k SAS drives 4 were bad so I had 16 to work with. I installed HexOS in a mirror raid on the 2 rear 2.5 drives the are 800GB Dell SSD drives. I plan on filling all the 2.5 with 900GB SAS drives and the add a JBOD below it with 8 3.5 drives with more storage space. Right below it is my Dell r710 running Proxmox and a Dell r530 below that running UnRaid.

There are no dumb questions. Just ask questions and learn. HexOS uses ZFS as file system. HexOS creates raidz1 pool if you have more then 3 drives. (One drive can fail). Raidz2 can not be created by HexOs yet ( two drives can fail), but you can in Truenas. with 2 drives a ZFS mirror is created. (One drive can fail). If you want to learn more about this topic, you can use google and search for ZFS vs Raid

Just following up with the completed build! It turned out great, and the standoffs you shared with the foam adhesive pads were crucial as none of the original mounting posts lined up with the holes on the motherboard. So I used the other plastic standoffs of the same length the help keep the motherboard from toughing the metal where the plastic adhesive ones couldn't fit. I still have to wire in the power button, and it looks like the front panel controls are just hard soldered, but at least the back panel lines up and I still have access to the network port and a couple usb. The last thing I wish I would have considered was that my sata cables were not right angle, which in this case made it a right fit. Thanks for the help, hopefully that can help anyone looking to do the same thing! The next step for me is to 3d print a cover for the back panel and PSU.

oh okay, yeah the one I had been looking at is then a full size 5050. So maybe I can fit 4 in there... in a non-standard way. ohh, The Ryzen is a cool one. Ill have to take a look. Thank you!

Sincerest apologies everyone. This is taking longer than it should. Hope to have this resolved shortly.

See reaction of Jonp. https://hub.hexos.com/topic/1916-so-far-good/#comment-12202 HexOs is hesitant to support NFS.

Second picture here, instead