Mobius

I completely get the struggle. I've also spent more time than i would like to admit troubleshooting vms

since you wanna use vms and you got time to tinker, take a look into proxmox adding a ssd shouldn't help transfer speeds afaik. to the best of my understanding how truenas/hexos works is transfers go to your ram first then to your hdd, bottle necked by the hard drive speed. if you add a slog ssd it would go ram -> to both slog drive and hdd but unfortunately it is still bottle necked by the hard drive. slog drives only copies whats still on the ram. This is mostly for in case of power loss nothing on the ram is lost.

username: truenas_admin password: whatever you put in when you installed hexos

i didn't back it but i think its pretty darn cool if i ever have a server closet i would defintely consider getting it

At least for the NIC you picked it should be fine but since it sounds like you'll be having a ssd pool you should consider a 5 or 10gb nic

they aren't silly questions high ram usage is expected and normal Ram also known as arc is used for a read cache and a tiny write cache. for read cache it takes your most frequently accessed files and keeps a copy on the ram so next time you need it you can access it faster.

i think freaking out is only limited to single drive pools since others were able to use the deck as normal when their z1 pools failed. But in a future update this shouldn't be an issue for single drive pools either

yeah as of today a lot of what you want would have to be done through the truenas interface but fingers crossed after a few updates we can do more a lot easier

that does sound like itd be real sweltering

yes with the server turned off, log into deck it should give you the option to disconnect server Once you disconnect your old server, you can claim your new server using the same license

heat output has never really been a thing i've considered but ive been hearing from other about it a lot these days. Guess modern pc components being so power hungry also generate way too much heat.

Looks like a pretty solid build

wow asus is really making some compelling routers. i'm pretty frustrated with my nest wifi pro for only have 2 ethernet ports on each node so that having 4 sounds great.

i haven't tried this myself but makemkv should have a docker app and its supposed to just work on truenas so i would think it would be about the same on hexos

It's just a matter of perspective. Without going into truenas there is only Plex and immich at this time.

There was a fair bit of pushback early on but a lot of us have decided to just bite the bullet. one thing to note is that there is a 30 day refund policy if you don't like it. If you wanna take advantage of that i would suggest waiting for at least beta 2 since there isn't much we can do with beta 1

i would with the i7 just for the newer version of quick sync and the igpu

I personally am a big fan of keeping an active community on reddit. For software i am less invested in, i would still like to sometimes pop in to a community where i don't have to make a new account. but +1 for bbc and irc lmao

its for data that i wouldn't mind losing and not worth the cost of redundancy

yeah i had to delete my single drive pool because of that myself

yup jellyfin has been heavily requested and im looking forward to it too.

im gonna grab myself a n5 too one of these days but it seems so big compared to the n2-4

the sliger defintely looks super slick but i might want more drives bays lol

Its kinda hard to tell whatll be more efficient without checking at the wall. Conventional wisdom says the one without a dgpu should be more efficient but that goes out the window since the precision is a laptop and i dunno how to estimate that. The precision would likely run circles around the optiplex when it comes to encoding provided that you can get nvenc to work with the quadro. A quick google search does show that the m2200 has nvenc support. honestly i don't think you can go wrong with either system. If you had a kill-a-watt meter i would have just suggested plugging them both in and picking whichever uses less power at idle

ignore it, it stems from an update for the underlying truenas os.