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outside of running hexos as a vm, its not possible. glad i could help

it might work but jgreco, the guy that wrote the truenas 10gb primer, called it garbage. yup nvenc should be more than adequate for plex but we usually recommend intel cpus for the lower power draw vs amd cpu + gpu. I get not wanting to deal with 13th and 14th gen. its why i usually recommend 12th and older or the new core ultras. How much it matters really depends on your power costs, for me with my shit rates itll cost me close to $40 usd a year just from gpu idle costs. if this is your OS drive, i would recommend spending less and getting a smaller drive as OS drive doesn't really benefit from being larger than 16gb as the rest of the storage is locked out. you can save your self a bit of money getting arctic p8 max or p8 silent fans, both highly rated. 80 plus efficiency means almost nothing for us homelab nas users as our systems will be at idle most of the time. Check out this article of best psu's from the ppl that do the cybernetics ratings You want to scroll to the graph for idle 20-80w power at 230v (assuming your are in australia) and just find whatever has the most efficiency. in general psus that are rated for smaller loads tend to be more efficient at 20-80w

yes Kinda sorta. adding a m.2 ssd as L2ARC will automatically cache. the most used files and speed up the performance when reading them. A special VDEV will also speed up the entire ssd to a certain degree especially when you have thousands of folders with thousands of files in them like what i'd expect from database workloads. However its not actually tiered behavior

Great write up. I'd do it the same way Steps 1-6 is all that's needed (at this time) to reclaim a disconnected server using the same boot drive for anyone with that problem

in most cases its not but its also not making money like mining theoretically is.

Hexos vm support will be based on the the new truenas 25.04 incus for vm deployment system. I'm not sure if the specifics of what hexos will add to that system has been revealed yet to us. I imagine if hexos does modify it, it will just be for streamlining the process if it is required. Hexos vm support had not been implemented yet because the Hexos team was waiting for the new truenas system to release so they can build off it. At this time changing the kernel is not supported and I imagine its not going to be a supported feature but i can ask the team when i get a chance, if they ever plan on it.

Good observation, i'll see if i can look into that hypothesis

I haven't actually looked into how to do this myself. I'm still running a test server 😅 I would probably just follow along to a youtube video. Officially yes but there are workarounds for at least maintaining your storage. i'm not sure yet how nicely hexos plays with restoring app setups for config files.

very cool setup. One recommendation, since you are using a perviously used and older ssd as your boot drive, look into auto backing up your truenas config file maybe in the cloud. In case the boot drive fails itll just make the process slightly less painful. That said its probably a good idea for everyone to do this

last i heard it was coming sometime in 2025 with the version 1.0 update.

I imagine you will have to go into the truenas interface and configure the jellyfin app to see the same directories as plex. That said i am far from an expert on the matter, heck i only bothered to install jellyfin myself last week.

question did you have a raid z1 pool or a mirror pool? I'm just trying to figure out why hitting delete works for some users and not for others

Most users have reported not losing data but it is at your own risk. The less risky alternative is unplugging all your storage drives then going through hexos deck setup, once you are done with that you can turn off and then put everything back in

I think it's the not upgradable 2gb of ram

I believe windows 11 introduced some complications with smb shares. As a mac user i just never looked deeper into it and forgot the fix for it. hopefully someone else can point you towards the right direction