Mobius

you can get away with used if you are on a budget or just want to spend your money wisely. you can also buy newer hardware if you have more intensive workloads or want to "futureproof" is immich the only thing you plan on using? Personally i would recommend at least 1 small nvme drive for the OS (like 128gb) but some users have 2 ssds as their boot drive for additional safety. As for storage you just need 2+ of the same kind of drive. If you know all you need is a few tb, getting multiple ssds can make sense however for the same price you can likely get 5x more hdd storage if storage density is your priority. If you lmk your budget excluding storage i can recommend you what i think is your best fit.

They are both great systems. the big difference between the 2 systems are that the second one has 6 sata ports meaning you can plug in 6 hdds and the first had 4. The amount of drives in total that you want might be your deciding factor. However with a HBA card you can always add more drives. You have a pretty large cooler that won't fit many nas cases. Atx sized power supplies also have the same problem. An expensive but totally worth it case would probably be the jonsbo n5 which can fit either system. In general for more budget conscious builds i would recommend the jonsbo n4 but between a new psu and cooler, most of the savings would disappear. The 12600k likely will use less power than your 12700k which is pretty important for a nas. One more thing of note, you only need a very small boot drive for hexos, all extra space in the boot drive is unusable. It might be considering getting a small one just for that purpose.

You can manually set the drives to spin down but in general its not recommended since drives die faster that way. spinning up and down causing additional wear is not exclusive to zfs. An all ssd system would likely use much less idle power but that expensive for other reasons.

i forget the exact toggle but when building the pool in truenas you can set it to include drives of larger sizes.

Hexos actually hasn't given me any issues with my mismatched drives I have a pool of 2 16s and 3 14s

If you have some USB (flash drives) lying around you can plug them in and make a temp pool with them to get past the pool requirements Then you can go into truenas and import your existing pool. It should should up in hexos I think there was one user that said he went into truenas and imported first then hit the create pool button in hexos setup but hexos did not delete his pool and name a new one. That said do it at your own risk

so as of right now HexOs shouldn't pick up any existing pools however there are some workarounds that work to varying levels of success

Make sure you purchase CMR drives and not SMR drives. Personally I recommend fewer larger drives than more smaller drives. These drives have non-insignificant idle power costs so you will be saving a decent amount of money every year going with the larger drives. Also you do have a limit of how many hard drive bays you have so using larger hard drives makes the most of each bay if you ever wanted to expand. I would go with three of the largest hard drives that financially and practically make sense for you. This is because you need a minimum of three drives in a pool already if you ever want to expand a pool in HexOS

The notification is 100% in the truenas side, im not sure if deck got updated to filter out that notification. If you are wondering where to get official hexos communications it'll be in the announcements section. Sometimes however JonP posts info in relevant threads, in which case community members like myself spread the words to those who haven't seen it.

I believe some users reported using raid z2 without any issues. If you want speed you may wanna 2 or 3 raid z1 vdevs combined into 1 pool. As far as i know raid z1 gives you the performance of a single drive however for every vdev you have the performance increases ergo 3 mirror vdevs will have the performance of 3 drives 2 z1 vdevs of 3 drives each will have the performance of 2 drives.

It'll be nice if the team is able to do that, i just imagine it's not a high priority until majority of the hexos specific features are implemented. The hexos team is smaller than i had expected too. It was a team of 2 that grew to 5 around the time of beta launch with more ppl slowly being onboarded

it used to not be so annoying but the one drive sync feature got depreciated a year-ish ago google drive shouldn't be so bad

ah i didnt realize onedrive sync became such a pain. here is a link to a couple work arounds https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-scale-23-10-0-1-cloudsync-with-microsoft-onedrive.114315/

i would just setup sync then turn sync off after the files have finished transferring the first time

These updates will no doubt come to hexos as well but at this time there probably won't be any hexos update just to bring hexos to the same truenas version. I'm sure when a hexos update is ready they will move to newer version of truenas

At the moment there have not been huge changes made to HexOS yet. This is the only update we have gotten so far The dev team is still fairly small but they are growing. Im sure they will make bigger updates sooner or later. The dev team hasn't been able to give us expected dates for updates either since they can't give us concrete dates yet.

ssd nas is the dream. Im trying to find a way to stick my nas into like a closet because of hdd are so loud.

@jamaican.mekrazy that's a great collection of media but i didn't think you should stop just here. I think i have around 2000 shows and a few hundred movies and i only think about doubling it lol

all good, i would have probably referred you to @Theo anyways since he seems super knowledgable about plex.

the update notification is a known bug. essentially there is an update for the underlying truenas system. at this time the hexos team has stated that you should not update and ignore the notification.

I imagine the 8845hs will be able to brute force at least one stream no issue.

i have nothing to cite for my answer but i imagine hexos does things the same way as scale

any chance you created a single drive pool using truenas? Doing that currently breaks hexos. Also i would email hexos to request a refund using the contact us page at the bottom of the website

a couple other users reported having plex show up as indirect streaming and force transcoding? any chance you see the indirect when looking at active streams on your dashboard?

sorry im not too familiar with transmission so i can't help you check if that feature is supported