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Synology was the first topic on WAN last night:

As long as you start with 3 drives (2 for storage +1 for parity) you can expand the the drive pool using raidz expansion. To my best understanding raidZ expansion is similarly taxing on your drives as resilvering is. Doing it multiple times might increase risk of drive failure. Alternatively you can add storage vdevs of equal size every time you want to expand. Theoretically it is less taxing on your drives. example you start with a 3 drive raidz1 pool, you can add another 3 drive raid z1 vdev to the same pool and your storage will double. However as far as i know this will have to be done in the truenas ui. HexOS may or may not properly recognize your DAS. For most DAS hexos only sees one of the many drives making it pretty pointless. This is because most mutli drive enclosures don't pass on the serial numbers of each drive to the os but rather the same generic serial number for all the drives, confusing the os. The off chance it does pass along the serial numbers, hexos will be able to see it and use it but we don't recommend using external storage as it can cause problems The off chance you haven't bought your hardware yet, i would like remind you that intel 13th and 14th gen cpus have been prone to dying. Intel did release a microcode update that should fix the issue but they said that multiple times so its not something i would like to roll the die on. But if you did buy it already make sure to do a bios update. Theoretically since you have a T sku itll be less likely to pull the power needed to fry itself. Also don't use a 1tb ssd for your boot drive. Hexos/Truenas only uses a very small amount of storage for the os (under 16gb iirc) and then locks away the rest of the storage. We generally recommend the smaller ssds in order to not waste your money. Taking a quick look at this motherboard It uses a realtek nic (network interface card) and while it might work, it might also cause problems. a lot of unexpected bugs have been because of realtek nics It also only has 2 sata ports and no pcie slots so you will have to use a m.2 to sata adapter, if you want to add more drives. I'm not familiar with the reliability of that kind of adapter so hopefully someone else chimes in on that regard. However i generally see people recommending pcie hba cards for additional sata expansion. Coming from PC building i made a lot of silly mistakes building my first nas. So many things you just wouldn't expect like the realtek nic.

Followup~ Definite breaks some things in the HexOS deck dashboard. Dash: Processor and Memory readings are completely incorrect (TrueNAS dashboard says processor is 2% while HexOS says its 98%, so I think it is flipped, showing unutilized CPU as utilized) and RAM is not showing any data on the HexOS side of things. The Network information seems to be accurate for up and down stream. HDD usage on HexOS and TrueNAS seem to be in conflict (though I didn't look at the difference before updating XD). HexOS states I have used 0.5 TB / 23.83 TB, while TrueNAS states it is 464.39 GiB / 21.22 TiB (granted, maybe TiB and TB are different units of measurement? not sure on that myself). Folders: User creation and deletion works without a problem. Folder creation, deletion, and permission assignment works as well. Storage: Cannot verify as I don't want to delete and remake my pool XD Apps: Stop/Start works. Launch never worked for me before and still doesn't work. I uninstalled plex successfully. Reinstall was also successful. Settings: All seems well here. Final observation: Things are taking a bit more time to actually show up in the Deck dashboard for HexOS, but it is a difference of a few seconds longer. Obvious notes of "this is just my observation and applied to my setup with my hardware, etc... etc... etc...", so proceed at your own discretion XD For my case though, kinda sad the system utilization info is inaccurate on the Deck dash now, as it is nice to see that remotely, but it isn't the end of the world as I can check it at home from the TrueNAS UI.

Looking forward to seeing the results, as i really want to upgrade to TrueNAS 25.04 for the new VM tools

>.> Morbid curiosity is getting the better of me. Snapshots and stuff for recovery have been made. Will report back when I have validated what does and doesn't break between TrueNAS 25.04 and HexOS

Having AMP (https://cubecoders.com/AMP) supported would allow users to get game servers up and running super fast and easy! I know my primary use cases for hexos is media streaming, image backups, and gaming servers. The first two are already covered with plex and immich. Just need a game server app for hexos and therefore recommend AMP!

If you are comfortable doing it from the TrueNAS side, it’s really not all that hard, even for a beginner. I have an NVIDIA card, and what I did was: 1. Open the TrueNAS webpage. 2. On the left side of the page, click "Apps". 3. Find your Plex application and select (click) it. 4. Find and click the "Edit" button next to "Application Info" on the right. 5. Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen. There you should find "GPU Configuration". 6. If you see your specific card, check the box next to it, then click "Update”. If you do not see your specific NVIDIA card, you may have to enable the NVIDIA drivers. This can be done by: 1. Going to the Apps section. 2. Click "Configuration" then "Settings”. 3. Make sure the "Install NVIDIA Drivers" box is checked if it’s not. Then after enabling the NVIDIA drivers, you should be able to continue to step 4.

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Nextcloud, tailscale, and home assistant! I still haven’t figured out HA properly

Just setup Nextcloud on my unraid server and hacking a one click option would’ve saved my weekend 🤣

This!

Home Assistant Pihole Nextcloud Git Some way to run various ____@Home software either in VM or bare metal

Home Assistant, Tailscale. It would be super cool if there was a one-click install for game servers as well.

Shouldn’t be available without Tailscale and Home Assistant imo -.- barebones stuff isn’t it.

Nextcloud would be great to have. I’m looking for an alternative to Google Workspace and it seems like Nextcloud might be a good option.

Second on Tailscale and HA!