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That cpu most defintely has an iGPU As for ram speed it really is not a big deal honestly as even ddr3 is within spec. On top of that the user can like he said upgrade if he wants to. the case he picked the jonsbo n3 only supports sfx psus not psus of the atx size like you rec'd

I post here a bit too often and some shortcuts would seriously make my life easier. if i could type in the text box things like below !wiki to get the tutorials link !usb to get this why not to use usb storage !start here for the link to start here page !workarounds for the link to the work arounds page It would make giving support easier. I imagine if possible it would just be easiest if each user could just setup their own shortcuts so the hexos forms team doesnt have to deal with updating it.

Its been a lil while since the beta fully opened up to everyone that has bought a license, i think it would be a great idea for us to look back and point out what we would do differently for our builds. For me the big thing would be to have waited for beta 2 or full release since right now there isn't enough i can/want to do. But that aside i never thought about looking into nic compatibility so i would defintely have picked a motherboard WITHOUT a realtek nic. I would also just fished for the other 2 14tb drives i had somewhere in storage instead of being lazy and making a mixed pool of 3x14tb + 2x16tb drives. I guess another minor thing would have just been not to bother spending the extra $5 on rgb ram if i was just gonna have to jump through hoops to turn off the rgb. (i bought it in hopes of increased resale value if i ever decide to part out this system)

Yes a local hexos ui is planned as part of the 1.0 rollout

Proxmox is built for the sole purpose of running vms efficiently. So it'll likely run smoother using less resources than hexos But i don't use it myself so this this all hearsay I'm also not familiar enough with it to tell you if your cpu is strong enough for certain but my gut feeling is that ubuntu +Windows at the same time might be tough for your cpu since it's a quad core that's over a decade old.

if you are gonna be running multiple vms you may want to look into proxmox. From inside proxmox you can probably host 3 vms meeting your needs (Windows, ubuntu and HexOS)

It holiday / new years time so things are probably pushed back a bit. That said im sure you have nothing to worry about since they will likely allow you to get your refund since you requested it within the 30 days even if they refund you after the 30 days.

My network is probably gonna be so congested that week i try to move the files. I might wait for the family to go vacation

this is actually great to know, here i was planning on just copy pasting and praying for the best

Guess it's just my good ol' MURICAN mentality to not think about catering to the rest of the world until it's pointed out.

i think if you use an external enclosure with multiple hdds only one will show up. But in general it is not recommended to use usb external storage feel free to read more hear https://forums.truenas.com/t/why-you-should-avoid-usb-attached-drives-for-data-pool-disks/1499

I think anyone that is willing to drop $300 on an operating system is probably willing to spend $20 on RAM, maybe even less if you salvage old parts.

ive also heard that self hosted email servers even have to potential to hurt you. Imagine you apply to a new job and when they email you back, the email bounces. You just lost that opportunity

And Merry ChristNAS to you too

i think the solution for your problem is currently in truenas. instead of making a large pool with 24 drives you probably want to make multiple vdevs instead it would be kinda like this picture here where the blue drives are parity and the grey drives are storage. so if any drive fails in a group of 5 you only need to resilver the smaller group of 5 instead of a gigantic group of 20. but to my undrstanding they show up as one big storage pool. That said i would assume hexos would not play nice with vdevs just yet kinda like how they don't play nice with pools of different size drives or single drive pools made in truenas. however it does not hurt to try

I thought it was common practice to just assume it is USD if the website is a .com and assume CAD if the website is a .ca

if you go to store and then click store again it shows as $199 As far as im aware we were told that the price will go up to the full $299 price once HexOS leaves beta

I would have liked a trial as well since I think it would reduce friction. That said the team told us their stance is we offer 30-day refunds. It's not ideal but it's better than nothing

A lot of users using free/recycled components have to deal with that. I wasn't lucky enough to have access to such a resource so i made my system from scratch. I did wayyyyy too much research on my components before purchasing and even then had some compatibility issues with something i didn't think of accounting for (my nic)

I've read many anecdotes online of ppl saying you won't notice RAM speed unless you are using a 10gb+ nic Server PSU tend to be LOUD so it's only worth it if you have a sound isolated location with Ethernet access available to you. The 2.5" bays are more annoying to use. Majority 2.5" hdds are smr drives that don't play nice with the zfs that hexos/truenas uses. There are some 1tb or smaller hdds that are cmr but they are harder to find. The easiest use for those bays are for 2.5" sata ssds but those are expensive. For the price it'll be hard to better but you'll likely pay for it In the long run with electricity costs.

I hear lsi cards are where it's at

I vaguely recall reading that someone had success after changing the ports using truenas ui

Yup nextcloud is on my list of apps i would like easy installation for as well. I haven't personally tried it myself but i see a decent amount of community members ask chatgpt to walk them through things, maybe it'll be able to clear things up for you too

You are better off using 3.5" drives if you can for it I'm your chassis. Majority of 2.5" hdd are smr drives that didn't play nice with zfs, which is what hexos uses. There are a few 1tb cmr 2.5" hdds out there but a lot of them have been discontinued and the rest are kind of hard to find. If you only have 2.5" slots available either find the few cmr drives or go sata ssd. Consider going with fewer but larger hdds since each one uses a decent amount of power. I personally bought a lot of exos drives new from eBay. But again this is only an option if you use 3.5" drives. Mirrored boot partition is more responsible but if your server isn't mission critical and just a home nas i would skip the mirror.

I use jellyfin since its not bloated like plex and is free. It also gives me the freedom to use most every file format. I do stream content to apple tvs i have throughout the home using the infuse app (i think it was like $99 for a lifetime sub). I don't think i had to transcode at all since i setup infuse on the apple tv. I had a family member that used to watch movies streamed to his ipad using the same infuse license. On my android devices i don't even need a third party app since the jellyfin app works fantastic. The flexibility is just convenient to me since i don't always want to watch on my tv.