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its all preference

yikes, thats super unlucky. verbatim had a reputation for making quality drives so im quite surprised.

happy i could help

so out of the box it likely would not support both since there is only one full size pcie slot. I think there is an extra x4 pcie slot but it would like likely need some modification to allow larger devices to fit (or you need to purchase an adapter) and even then im not 100% if itll work or not. the 12600k works really well with plex specifically because of the optimizations intel made with intel quick sync. you likley don't need need a gpu.

I don't have any experience with unraid so I'm wondering what makes it harder to use?

At this time hexos doesn't handle the creating or managing of VMs as far as i am aware, the feature was delayed while main truenas scale figures out what they wanna do. Truenas scale had transitioned to incus in TN scale 25 but they started detransitioning or something While you can setup and use VMs for now it'll have to be done via the truenas interface i haven't done it myself yet so i can't really comment on its ease. At the very least gpu pass through works for me for jellyfin and immich, i haven't tested anything else. Rule of thumb is that if it works on truenas scale it'll most likely work on hexos I have multiple zfs pools that are accessed by multiple mac and windows computers at the same time. Hexos uses the SMB (samba) protocol to make shares available to the network and i do believe most linux distros support smb. at this time there are some hoops to jump through. You need to either setup a reverse proxy, something like tailscale or a cloudflare/pangolin tunnel. i found setting up a cloudflare tunnel was most straight forward but you need to own a domain for that. always happy to help. honestly tho if you are running 20+ vms proxmox makes sense. you can even run hexos as a vm in proxmox and let it handle all your non vm needs. hexos also has a 30 day refund policy so you can try and see if you think it'll work for you.

we do get updates on what to expect with each blogpost with this one being the latest one https://hexos.com/blog/status-update-amp-zfs-leadership-call-tonight but yeah it would be a good idea if any updates were incorporated into the roadmap page as well. I imagine the q3 update blog post will be arriving near the end of q3

the standard for plex/jellyfin is onboard intel igpu because it has access to intel quicksync. as a bonus you will be saving a LOT of money over the years not paying for dgpu idle electricity costs

@ubergeek has swapped out his hardware many times iirc. as long as boot drives stay the same, its fairly straight forward swapping parts. realistically its probably the lsi 9300-16i but that one chugs on electricity and outputs a lot of heat so you would need a dedicated fan for it and in the long run itll be more expensive. i personally bought an oem variant of the 9400-16i for not that much more than 9300s are going for on ebay. i forget the model numbers, probably best you just ask chat gpt what the oem model numbers are

Apologies it's been a hectic week for the team but the forum will be opened up.

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looks good to me it has an intel nic 6 sata ports 3 m.2 ports (just double deck if there are any ports that get disabled if you try to fully populate all the ports) yeah its always hard to gauge power draw. there is too little understanding out there about it.

not exactly. it depends on what chipset is powering the ethernet port. Many mobos come with realtek powered nics (network interface cards) and a large chunk of those give problems. there are some mobos that come without problematic chipsets like the ones powered by an intel nic (an intel mobo can still have a realtek nic) honestly i think your 6th gen i5 might still have a good enough time transcoding videos in plex. GPU transcoding is supported but the main reason we try not to use gpus is a mix of factors but can be boiled down to cost. 1) price of gpu 2) price of electricity - even at idle a gpu will be using a decent bit more in electricity and that adds up. i say give it a shot with your an igpu and if you really feel limited add the gpu later.

I could be wrong but afaik slog wouldn't really increase speeds since it'll only hold a couple seconds of transfer time only. client > server RAM > SLOG > pool (HDD/SSD) Regardless of what os you access from

i'm not gonna go as far as saying never gonna happen but i'd say its on the furthest back burner if at all. special vdev is a scary one to implement because if it goes down, itll take the whole pool down with it on top of not being very useful for most homelab users slog also doesn't make the most sense for most users as to my best understanding it only really protects you in case of power loss and at that point you might be better served just getting a ups. Personally i do run a triple mirror special vdev on my storage pool and i think it causes some stability issues with hexos.

q2 update thread is linked below I updated the title of the thread to make it more clear that this is the thread for the q2 update. There have been multiple smaller updates since the q2 update as well. All the info can be seen in the announcements section of the forum. I believe there are no plans to make an official discord

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the jonsbo n4 case has ventilation holes all along the top of the case the 70mm coolers wouldn't really be chocked and would likely be bringing in fresh air from outside of the case

they work better for transcoding video in jellyfin or plex. if that doesnt matter to you feel free to use amd. they are garbage hardware with even worse linux drivers. Ive seen so many problems from them from system crashing to straight up not working. the most common 2.5 and 5gb nics are realtek because they are cheap but straight up disabled by truenas/hexos because they cause data corruption. networking more important. you can survive using amd for transcoding. gen 12 doesnt have that issue only 13 and 14 does. you don't need more than 32, heck you don't need more than 8 but the more you have the better itll perform. you can find it for a fraction of the price on ebay, there are fakes so i tend to avoid things being shipped directly from china. that said i've heard the fakes work fine. i would also avoid the 9300 and go with either 9200 or 9305 because 9300 has overheating problems. so for this i would just check the description and see if it has already been flashed to "i.t. mode" or i would ask the seller if it has been. these cards have 2 different modes and "i.t. mode" is what is compatible for us. while they can be manually flashed at home, its just not worth the effort since a large amount of them come pre-flashed. this looks not bad to me. since it comes with 2 sata break out cables each worth around ~10-12 usd

use the link i made for the build click edit this list remove the motherboard i picked then look for a new motherboard set sata 6gb slider to minimum 6. this will give you the models with 6 sata ports but majority of them do not have pricing so you will have to look for pricing yourself. also avoid any with realtek network interface cards. cache drives are barely a thing in hexos/truenas you are far better off allocating that budget for additional ram. if you do go with expansion cards like the lsi hbas they do support both sata and nvme on one expansion card depending on the model but im not too familiar with how to connect nvme drives to them. depending on the model the expansion cards are not expensive and might be a lot less expensive than different motherboard. if you start with a pool of at least 3 drives it is as simple as clicking add new drive and waiting. at this time until you change out all the drives in a pool all drives will be treated as the same size as the lowest capacity drive. once you finish changing them out, it should automatically increase in capacity. in the distant future we will have a feature called zfs anyraid which will let you mismatch drive sizes and still have use of the full capacity. That said its likely years away and may not be compatible with existing pools.

your best bet would be to jump up to a case that supports atx motherboards since matx motherboard with enough sata ports are rare. the jonsbo n4 can support 6 3.5" drives and 2 2.5" drives, which would require a total of 8 sata data ports to take full advantage of the case. There are motherboards that have 6 sata + 2 m.2 but they would likely be outside of your budget. any reason why you don't want to use a sata expansion card? for a homelab i would go with which ever of the 2 are cheaper. we have something similar but its not fully automated. hexos will warn you that a drive is problematic. you would then need to replace the drive and then tell hexos that the newly added drive is for the purpose of taking the place of the bad drive. then hexos will take care of the rest.

so your motherboard and poswer supply does not fit in your case. the jonsbo n4 supports up to matx cases and sfx power supplies. also we highly recommend not getting a motherboard with a realtek nic (network interface card) because those just cause problems. here is the skeleton of your build on pc part picker for reference. https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pHnZTM I see that it costs ~630 euros let me see what i would do with a similar budget. https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pzG73w i went with an intel cpu because they tend to do better if your usecase is say plex. with a fairly strong igpu for most non ai or gaming tasks. i went with a thermalright cooler since they are usually pretty good. this one has better cooling headroom than the be quiet one you had before. im not thrilled about the rgb personally so if you are able to find it without it i would get that. The motherboard i picked has an intel nic and ddr5 support. be careful if you decide to purchase the motherboard without using the pcpartpicker provided links as msi has like 5 different motherboards with the same name. Oh also this motherboard should fit in the jonsbo n4 no problem. 1 thing is that this motherboard only has 4 sata ports. the best way to add more is by adding an hba card (flashed to it mode) into the pcie slot. i would recommend any of the following, lsi 9200-8i, 9305-8i, 9400-8i Since the motherboard supports ddr5 ram, i picked the same capacity ddr5 ram for you. same case I didn't pick the cheapest power supply that fit. I personally like the seasonic brand of power supplies and this one was fully modular making it just a bit easier to cable manage in that case. this skeleton also came out to about ~630 euros. (not including storage) the motherboard only has 1 full sized m.2 and i opted to use it for the boot drive. and swapped out your ssds to sata ones instead for compatibility purposes. i know its not ideal but itll likely be imperceptible on the day to day. i didnt look into hdd pricing because its hard for me to check the pricing in your country outside of pcpartpicker but definitely check out the pricing of seagate exos drives since for some reason they end up being sold at a lower price than the ironwolf drives fairly often. i'm not sure what you mean by this but if you can clarify it for me i'm happy to answer this and any more questions you may have as well as help you further modify this list if you desire.

I used to be able to give a confident yes before but im actually not sure. I think truenas scale 25 added some new flags to zfs pools preventing being used on machines running at the latest truenas 24 (which hexos is still based on). hexos will be getting an update sometime in q3 that should bring it up to truenas 25. once that happens it will go back to a confident yes. ofc i can be completely wrong about 25 update to zfs feature flags breaking compatibility with older os versions or misunderstanding it. I think it was a manual update too so if you didn't update it simplifies things. i don't have enough experience on the matter to confirm any of your other questions. hopefully someone else can chime in with more info. at this time a lot of hexos features have not been fully implemented. if you switch over now you will be seeing more of the same and having to deal with a lot of truenas stuff for apps because hexos only supports 2 apps for one click installs right now. Once the q3 update drops im expecting hexos to really ramp up with more 1 click install apps.

im not sure if this will work for you guys but i have a core ultra 265k and the igpu didn't work till i upgraded to truenas 25 fangtooth (breaking proper compatibility with hexos) after that it just worked.

I think it'll be fine but i haven't tested out a similar setup myself.