Iliyria

Would be nice if it supported PoE

Look what finally showed up at my door this morning. Ah yeah, Im one of the cool kids now lol

Right now the influencers are reporting issues with the Comet. Lawrence Systems reported some were taken care of the past few days

It does not break anything, myself and others have been using it this way for months

I bought 2 but the TrueNAS server I just built has iDrac so I no longer need one of them. Im sure Ill find something to use it on... I might just waste it on my pfsense router

When I saw the price initially, I thought it was too good to be true, I would be just donating and never receive a product.... until the Youtubers started to receive the product. I feel that you get a pretty good value packed for your money. Mine shipped the other day, Im just waiting for FedEX/UPS to deliver it

I was originally going to go with 10 drives plus 1 spare and no SLOG drive. Then I remembered I had new SSDs laying around for a couple years and my OCD would go nuts knowing I had unfilled bays... so I put HDs in them since I bought a couple extras as emergency spares in case of failure

Im not going to lie, I knew I was buying used drives so I bought the eBay insurance from Allstate Protection for $9.98 for 2 years

To be honest, I haven't even given it a thought of yet

IIll admit it, its partially because I can/could but, Veeam use to beat the crap out of my NAS doing network backups. I like to tinker and all my job VM experience is with Hyper-V, now I can check out other hosts and learn more for the future and be more marketable.

The motherboard on my prior NAS decided to take a take a dirt nap a few weeks ago. I have been thinking about replacing it before hand but this made my decision easier. I wasn't in too much of a hurry and searched eBay for about 2 weeks looking for parts and sending lower offers to sellers for parts to build my new NAS. Finally, after 2-3 weeks its now in my production homelab. I think I got the recertified drives for around 20 bucks or less each. If you are not in a rush and you take your time, you can definitely find deals and build a pretty nice NAS on the cheap cheap... don't forget to haggle with offers! Its very quiet but, it weighs about 80 pounds. Specs: Core chassis: Dell T430 CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2667v4 RAM: 384GB ECC DDR4 (2400) PSUs: Redundant 1100W Platinum HBA: LSI 9300-16i Storage Pool: 13x 4TB SAS 12GBp/s 7.2K drives (in ZFS Z2) Boot Drive: NVMe (Connected to internal USB 3.0) SLOG: 256GB SDD L2ARC: 1TB SSD Transcoding: ARC310 NIC: x710-DA2 SFP+ Fans: All replaced with silent Noctua Extra 5 port drive bay: SilverStone FS305-12G drive cage

The 2 I purchased finally shipped.... now the waiting game

(I cant edit the above message) Make sure you set up the Data, and Cofiguration Storage locations all as ixVolume (Dataset created automatically by the system). Also select Plex Logs Storage and Plex Transcode Storage to Temporary directory created on disk)

I was able to get it to work by uninstalling Plex and re-installing it directly from TrueNAS. The key thing is make sure you set up the Data, and Cofiguration Storage locations all as ixVolume (Dataset created automatically by the system) This should only take you 5-10 mins

Did you say that you got your Intel ARC working with HW transcoding?

Hmmm, now I’m at a crossroads on deciding if I should remove HexOS for now and table it for down the road after they fix the issue or buy yet another single slot GPU for transcoding (like a P2200) but I really don’t want to pay more money for a GPU that I really don’t need

Unfortunately I’m still waiting for a response to my inquiry. I emailed support 2 this week and still haven’t received a response of any type.

Thanks Mawson and Nightwish, I’ll give it a try now.

I reported the issue to the upper powers that day and heard nothing back. Every time I would try to validate my email it would reject it. It finally verified my account and I went to purchase it today but unfortunately, it’s doubled in price. $99.00 for home use was reasonable but 199.00, that’s a pass. Especially after the issues I has with the website and not receiving any type of reply. If it was still 99.00 I would purchase it