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is nextcloud links able to work without a local connection or a reverse proxy?

As far as i can tell nothing will ever be built into hexos it self. As far as i know the nextcloud company shouldn't be able to see your files if you host a next cloud server on your own machine. Nextcloud is a docker app.

Afaik at this time there is no easy way to do that with hexos. It might be better for you to use a prebuilt nas since most have that functionality built in. Maybe someone else has a better answer for you

For the most part it is safe to tweak things using the truenas interface. Some things however are not supported even if tweaked in truenas such as single drive pools

It's a no questions refund as long as you send the request email within the 30 days. There is no other trial. License follows the user and there is no limit swapping hardware. You can easily disconnect the license and connect it to a different server yourself.

not sure if this will help but it wouldn't hurt to try this

I am hoping we get 1.0 before black friday (i have no basis for this hope) but if that does happen, i can't imagine a black friday sale to bring hexos down from the full price of $300 to $100.

There is nothing announced at this time. I wouldn't bet on it though since we are still at a discounted price right now

you're welcome glad i could help

overall looks fine to me somethings to note make sure whatever model you end up purchasing are cmr drives and not smr drives. i would also run a smart test on the drives and check how many reallocated sectors there are before you commit. people tend to buy drive cages (that could even be designed for other cases) and insert them into the case you already have. looks sufficient to me but i would very much recommend upgrading the ram, hexos is an operating system that really likes ram. theoretically you don't need your storage to get through setup but there is almost nothing you can do with hexos without storage drives. At most you can just check if you are able to instal the os as for your sata power question it is out of my area of expertise

I don't have too much experience with smaller builds but this is what i would do First i would start with a m.2 to pcie 16x adapter like this https://a.co/d/iQgjdVb I would then install a lsi/broadcom hba card that is no older than the broadcom 9305 (other options include 9400 and 9500) since they are the only ones that support pcie 3.0 speeds. if you have a case large enough for internal drives i would pick a hba card with an i suffix (i for internal) if you don't i would use a hba card with an e suffix (e for external) There are also one more number next to the letter denoting how many drives the card will support. so if you are okay with capping out at 10 drives internally something like the broadcomm 9305-8i would work for you (8 drives on hba card and 2 drives on motherboard) However if you want to install your drives externally i would get something like this https://a.co/d/ghTg1vF since doesn't use usb but rather sata or some other external storage that has the same external port as the hba card (sff-8644 for the 9305 and 9400) this might seem daunting, and it does kinda feel that way. Maybe someone else can give you a better solution. For the record i don't know enough about the m.2 to pcie 16x adapter or the hdd enclosure to recommend those exact models. you might want to do some research to find out what are the most reliable products in their class.

Updating truenas is something the team explicitly said not to do and that it is an unsupported usecase. So making a bug report probably would not get acted on by the team. However it'll probably be appreciated by anyone looking up update truenas.

Hexos should do fine for your use case. You would want to install some things like tailscals to allow remote access to your server. Just make sure your Internet speeds at the observatory is good enough for a 120mb upload every minute. I don't get symmetrical upload from my Internet service provider so i no doubt would have too slow Internet despite paying for 1gb download.

I wonder if more things will break when upgrading to the next version hexos if you are upgrading from a different version of truenas.

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.

Now thats a wicked deal

One thing i was considering going forward was getting amazon refurb drives and getting the ~$200/year asurion insurance for all amazon purchases. It might not be worth it if you don't spend much on amazon but if you do, it looks like a great value. A friend of mine has a toddler who's only hobby is breaking expensive things and he has saved a lot of money with the insurance.

what parts are in your servers? is there anything you setup in the truenas interface? (ex. storage pool was made in truenas)

There aren't any drivers to install but people have struggled getting arc cards to work for transcoding. There should be a few threads on it but i haven't really kept up with them since i didn't plan on using arc cards myself

Pinging @jonp He might have some better insight

Just confirming your issues are post claiming server with hexos?

eventually yes, soon i don't know about that. the team has been focused on scaling up so fingers crossed that once these growing pains are done updates will come more frequently this is true

HexOS will eventually move to the most up to date stable releases of truenas. At this time there are no etas.

As far as i am aware there is no way to control fan speeds at this time. I'm not if/when we would get such a feature. I would check if there are any docker apps that would work for fan control.

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