ubergeek

So that is enough to run a nas. My only issue is with drive selection, if you don't need sas I would stay away from it. My first nas I built for hexos was slapped together with random cheap 4tb drives I pulled from ebay and for it's lifetime I only lost 3 drives. So save some scratch and just focus on a better quality sata drive. 

@jonp @mill3000

IMO I say go with what  you can afford / what your build requires. the new hardware is not a bad way to go 

@mill3000

So in my opinion if thats the hardware you have to build with, YES build it and when you have the chance to upgrade things upgrade them. The hardware is yes old but I know people still using core2duos to power their projects. Keep in mind that some thing you may want to do past the basic storage nas my be limited like Plex ect, due to the power they can sometimes require  

I'm digging that case

Does power consumption matter? Amd I guess you are in the eu 

So after some digging, poking and planning I have NAS 2.0. Unlike my first nas that was built off of pure storage round 2 is planned on the fact that I have found a better way for my use case to use hexos. So moving to a newer cpu platform will give me more horsepower down the road swapping from a i3 8350k to an i7 10700. Moving to storage I will have 3 128g ssd as pool 1 for all my apps and vms. Next to that is 4 12tb drives that will be the main pool for storage. Setting up the next 6 8tb drives will be my once a month storage point "the drives will be spun down when not in use". As far as my old setup it will be getting 15 8tb hdds and will be colocated for in case things happen at home storage. 

What HBA / Raid / Perc card 8s in the server

On 11/29/2025 at 5:21 AM, Stressed_Out09 said:

I'm having the same issue.

Though its only been an issue since I've updated my network to a unifi system and setup vlans/new IP aka going from 192.168.50.1 to 10.10.1.1 (and adding vlans from that)

Could this be causing the issue? And if so how do I resolve it? - For context I can see successfull flows out but not really seeing any connections to something obviously HexOS related

yes you would need to either go back to the 192.168 subnet or Vlan for the hex os port to run as 192.168 and make the ACL's to connect back to the 10.10

I would take the new router and mirror the current /24 ip structure.  

On 12/11/2024 at 4:15 PM, SacabooCDE said:

I recently set up a VM hosting the TrueNAS OS. I further tested to see that it was configured properly by connecting to the instance via my browser. From here I was able to login and access the TrueNAS dashboard.

However, even though I can access my TrueNAS instance anywhere in my house the setup page for HEXOS can't seem to find the server.

https://deck.hexos.com/add-new-server/detecting

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

If you are in Windows use a network scanner like Angry IP scanner or NMAP/Zenmap to do a network scan . You should see the hostname that you setup the NAS to have ,use that IP and HTTPS://i.p. here and you should see the truenas screen. Also you can use this option from the HEXOS DECK view ::::: SEttings - truenas- popout window truenas button

So I cant speak on the uGreen HW but I can tell you that if you decide to find normal computer hardware plopping in the boot SSD and hard drives it will take off and run " NOTE depending on the network chipset you have" without any hitch. I am running the same SSD that I started HEXOS "since launch" and have tested about 12 different motherboard cpu combos and the only issue has been a network chipset that the underlying Linux os didnt like.,

So I have played with a lot of different hardware on my HexOs journey. For the time I have landed with using a i3 8350k  32gb of ram and running 16 drives. For your use case the storage is going to be your money pit. Without knowing where exactly where your needs are I could say make sure you bulk up there where as in RAM starting with 16gb will get you going but having more will help ZFS Cache. 

You could do some Slow but useful AI stuff

On 11/27/2025 at 3:42 PM, V. Old said:

How did this get fixed? I'm looking for an option to change my email for the reason.

Talk to @mill3000

On 9/20/2025 at 2:16 PM, JulsHg said:

Good to know, thank you guys.

Maybe something for down the Line, if possible?

Personally I wouldn't see that being a option due to the fact on how Hex is baked into the build of Truenas

On 9/15/2025 at 1:58 AM, Cantos said:

At the moment, the only option is to install HexOS from scratch. It cannot be installed on top of an existing TrueNAS.

This is the way 

So I have yet to try VM's in Hex OS yet but I am a avid Prox user " 4 compute nodes and 5 Ceph cluster nodes with a 60tb prox backup server" My main question is do you need all things in one box? The way I run my home prox setup is using hexos as a mass storage media and the prox uses SSD for VM/Container OS storage. 

6 minutes ago, Mobius said:

@ubergeek has swapped out his hardware many times iirc.
as long as boot drives stay the same, its fairly straight forward swapping parts.

realistically its probably the lsi 9300-16i but that one chugs on electricity and outputs a lot of heat so you would need a dedicated fan for it and in the long run itll be more expensive.

i personally bought an oem variant of the 9400-16i for not that much more than 9300s are going for on ebay.
i forget the model numbers, probably best you just ask chat gpt what the oem model numbers are

thats what im running is the 9100  link to the eby seller i used

15 hours ago, Mobius said:

I think it'll be fine but i haven't tested out a similar setup myself.

I have ran a single 16 module in testing with truenas and didn't see a real performance change. I need to grab a r540 off the shelf and test a single 32 to see how it effects but in a normal OS dual channel memory is the way to go

You can look at others builds LINKED HERE

From my own perspective I am still running my nas "15 4tb drives and a 2060" on a 8th gen i3 8350k. It has plex , ubiquity server, immich , and other running with very low cpu usage "most days under 30%" 

With that said that looks to be a solid start 

depending how large of storage you plan to use as much as you can afford. I run 32gb in my system but wish it was 64 or 128

You might have to cross flash the Hxxx card for "it HBA" mode linked HERE>>>>

I had mine fully populated with 4gb sticks "they are cheap " if you can get 8's snag them
 

I question what HBA is in the devices