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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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Right now there is no concrete eta however you can checkout the hexos blog for an up to date roadmap on what to expect going forward As for what i'm using my server for It is 90% jellyfin server 5% storage for the family bc apple is allergic to giving fair upgrade costs. 5% tinkering

At this time not officially. We will be adding an official migrating feature in the future. As of right now there are only work around that are ymmv. Such as installing hexos without any storage drives behind plugging in to get though the installation and claiming process. Then turning off the system, plugging in the drives and reclaiming your pools in the underlying truenas ui.

sorry you had a bad experience. your storage is probably fine. once you install truenas you should be able to import/migrate your pools. just a heads up the middleware issue exists on truenas as well.

since the n100 does have quick sync you are probably right about that.

Yeah i think @PsychoWardsis likely spot on

i think this is a question for wan show merch message lol.

don't hesitate to ask lots of questions either i've made mistakes i would never have expected like getting an unsupported realtek nic lmao

It seems like the 10gb nics in general are more reliable from what i hear. 10gb gear has been dropping in price pretty fast, you can get noname brand switches with 10gb for well under $100. That said i dunno if im willing to trust that kinda of gear but there are youtubers that are happy with those switches

you can try this one https://a.co/d/3wca1Ek Seems like many people recommend skipping 2.5gb and going straight to 10gb

I would say be careful regardless because In Germany the used drives were bought from a legitimate retailer. As for the nic did you want internal pcie or external usb?

i dunno of anyone that has but hexos most likely will install just fine onto either or. That said we do not recommend using external storage such as the sabrent 4 bay you mentioned. Many of these external multi bay docks also can have issues with truenas/hexos where the operating system will only properly detect 1 drive.

I'd say just look for one preflashed to it mode I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the newer lsi cards didn't use it mode anymore but i didn't look into it