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issues is solved for me. Turned out that i had a typo in my registered mail address. Support fixed the issue. Thanks again.

I agree, dockge is like a pocket knife whereas portainer is more of a swiss army knife

@Mobius To be honest, I don't plan on slowing down any time soon. The only factor will be cost. The 12x8TB SSDs I currently have cost me a bit over $300 USD each just one year ago and now cost over $550. Would I be able to expand my pool by slipping in some additional, less expensive, brand/model of the same capacity I wonder?

@jamaican.mekrazy that's a great collection of media but i didn't think you should stop just here. I think i have around 2000 shows and a few hundred movies and i only think about doubling it lol

Hello Nerds! About me...okay, here goes. I acquired the nickname Bull when my boss saw me at work after having cut my hair and shaved my head, He thought I looked like Bull Shannon (Richard Moll) of Night Court. I'm a nerd, through and through and currently live in Maine. I became interested in science and technology in middle school (grades seven and eight), starting with astronomy, photography and later, astrophotography (anything space). At the time the family was living in a ~150 year-old farm and I had set up a little b/w darkroom in the basement. By junior-high, personal computing was just starting out (this was in the early 70's) and I fell in love. I always wanted an S100-bus computer like the IMSAI 8080 or SOL-20, but could never afford one and ended up buying a Radio Shack Model 1 which sported a whopping 4kB of RAM, a monochrome monitor and a cassette tape recorder for permanent storage. I remember learning Basic and a little Assembly and writing my first real program - a simple planetary statistics database. In the late 70's my sister and I were lucky enough to have access to the Bates College Computing Center as mom was employed with the college. From the main terminal room located in the old Corum Library I was able to access the Dartmouth College Time Share and was introduced to what would soon become the internet. I remember spending hours on a program called Xcaliber, chatting with students at Dartmouth, as well as kids of family members there. I even wrote my own chat program that allowed more than the 20-person limit at the time. It was there that I was introduced to C, PL/1 and CPL (Command Processing Language - kind of like Primes version of PowerShell). After school I worked at various places and ended up working for Bates College in the computing department as an electronics technician during the day (doing board-level work as well as assembling PCs for the campus and network wiring) and as a systems operator for a few hours a night doing full and incremental backups of the twin PR1ME 9750 mainframes to high-speed tape. The mid-80's is when I built my first x286 and also selling them to friends through word-of-mouth. It was at this point when I also wrote some software, just for curiosities sake (a database management system, a word processor, a file encryption utility (using an algorthm provided by the very smart son of the Bates College Computing director, as well as a video store POS system for my mom and sister's business). I haven't done much since then, aside from my own personal journey in tech and my love for film and music. And this leads to my confession... I am a data packrat, which is why I became interested in NAS's in the first place. I started storing my photography, movies and music on a 5-bay DAS box in JBOD-mode, but always knew that was a disaster waiting to happen. I currently have over 5,000 films, 200 television shows/streaming series, 500 documentaries, 51,000 songs from 5000 albums covering 377 artists, not to mention my photography library, NFL Superbowl collection, 800 music videos and hundreds of concerts and rockumentaries. I know, I need an intervention. Of course I haven't viewed all of this content. I guess I'm just an archivist at heart. Besides, I'll need something to watch once I retire.

@ubergeek I wish. It's a Briggs & Stratton 12kW (01938-0) propane standby generator that my folks had installed when our 2-story Cape was built back in '89? I think. It gets yearly servicing and is still going strong.

I believe in the HexOS cause as much. Glad to see all my hours of burning midnight oil on the internet condensed into an easy to use platform for everyone to to jump onto the self hosting train. I mean, who doesn't love the peace of mind knowing that comes with knowing your data is safe from prying eyes on a local and fail proof device? Please consider adding ActualBudget to the list of curated apps. I currently have it running on docker + linux and its handy to have for managing personal finances.

I like Dockge. Compared to Portainer feels Dockge more lightweight.

Dockge is much easier to use than i thought and I one button push for deploying gluten, my entire arr stack and qbittorent is really nice.

Hi All, I'm super excited about this project and I finally have all the components I need for my new NAS, I wanted something small, quiet and with decent power, here is the breakdown: TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus 48GB DDR5 RAM - TerraMaster says it only supports 32GB, but it seems to work fine 8 x 8TB WD Black SX850X NVME drives 512GB NVME Boot Drive - This is a 2230 nvme inside a small USB case and connected to the internal USB port on the motherboard where the TOS USB drive lives. The only downside is that this is only USB2. Things to note: There seems to be an incompatibility with the Debian backend which resulted in the system to go into a boot loop. To fix this I had to make the following changes in the BIOS Disable Secure Boot Disable VT-d Disable ‘Boot TOS first’ Once this was done I was able to install HexOS, all 8 nvme drives were detected and setup with raidZ1 giving me 56TB of total storage. The RAM and 10GB NIC also function correctly, though the dashboard icon displays it as 5GB, however I was able to confirm it is actually 10GB from the terminal. I've setup my first shared folder and performed some basic copy and paste tests, I'll do some proper performance testing and report back. As the Intel processor has an iGPU I will also get Plex installed and test some transcoding. I'll probably wait until version 1 is released before making the jump and migrating all my data from my Synology NAS. Until then, I look forward to testing new features as they are released. Keep up the good work HexOS team 🙂