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The Lincstation N2 has 16GB LPDDR5 (Non-upgradeable), so 16GB it is. I already use CPU type host, and the i440fx is a click, click, next mistake, ha ha 🙂 . But for my test setup it's good enough and i didn't feel the need to change it, because it works. But I will use Q35 in my final setup. Truenas is also improving the VM engine and will become more and more a virtualisation platform. But for now the sweetspot of HexOs / Truenas is still good and reliable network storage. Proxmox gives me a lot of flexibility and is my virtualisation platform of choice. In the past I used ESXi, but since the Broadcom takeover I moved to Proxmox. vCenter was a nice tool and Proxmox is developing something like that: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Datacenter_Manager_Roadmap Are you still using Proxmox? Or did you fully move to HexOs/Truenas? I am also curious about what you are using as server hardware.

Can you not just upgrade the memory of the Lincstation N2? You could try if it works with the module from your DL30N. With the recent changes and improvements with Docker in Truenas you might not even need Proxmox in the future anymore and you could even run everything docker from Hexos/Truenas. If, however you also need VMs, Proxmox is still the way to go. Also Q35 instead of i440fx in combination with CPU type Host is supposed to give you the best performance 🙂

Heavy Breathing

Hi Guys, I currently use a Synology NAS as my main storage solution and Synology Hybrid RAID has allowed that NAS to be upgraded over the years by adding larger drives one at a time. I understand that TrueNAS allows capacity expansion once *ALL* the drives in a pool have been replaced with larger drives but it would be really useful if it were possible to implement something like SHR where a pool could be expanded once the second larger drive has been swapped in and then extended for each additional drive added. Interestingly if you Google implementing SHR under Linux you get "Oh that's just simply..." but no-one seems to have actually done it. 🙂 Thanks Phil