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Thank you , that is awesome . Glad I could lend some help

I don't think they have posted one, but i am as well interested to see what it looks like , hopefully in the next month they will have something to show.

It has been covered a few times and I have figgured this out my self , if only using a single drive even when added in truenas it currently breaks the hexos dash. You will need atleast a pair of drives if you want to use the hex dashboard. The devs know about this but its unclear where on the roadmap the single drive feature will be fixed.

So I decided to throw together a quick video for thoes that are questioning hardware when it comes to building their HexOs build. This is something i put together in a short time with my 20+ years in the used parts game. Feel free to give me pointers or opinions on things i may have missed and if there is a need ill create a part 2 with used enterprise gear..

So the specs are a crap shoot, if you are just going to run a NAS and a few app's you dont need much, ": im on an i3 8350k 32gb ram" but if you plan to add more in the future you might want more horse power. I would say any 4th gen I3/5/7 should run a nas with no issues, the thing youll wanna calculate is if you have power use concerns or if you wanna expand in the future what would be needed.

I use to use the NUC platform alot, and they rock USFF is fun

This full size 5050 is what work used for small site NVR. It had 4 drives in it but in a very crude way, but it worked. Just note there are tons of deals to be found LIKE THIS if you dig and wait for some hardware,

We run the 5050 at work and the one thing that will limit you is the MT case, They dont have much room for extra drives, You might be able to put 2 3.5in hdds inside of the case while using the m.2 sata for the boot drive. If that fits what you are looking for in a build for storage it would run it. For the processor the i7 7500 is not a bad for running Hexos as well as other applications on top of it. The stock cpu cooler would be fine but it would be best practice to take it off and re-thermal paste it. if you have the opportunity I would look for a full sized 5050 that would give you some more space, the other option is to Frankenstein that motherboard into a more conventional case but that would take some adaptors and rewiring. Hope this helps

So I moved chassis completely , added a whole new HBA, added new drives changed processor and memory , and added more HDDS . everything was running like a champ until I biffed up some back end things that I was able to fix

As I stated I have changed hardware and it boots back up and goes with the flow

I dont know your needs but this is whats running my NAS. 15 4tb drives rtx 2060

Nice setup, it will defiantly keep ya warm , my 530 sure does

This is the method I used and it worked like a charm

Yeah I have many hours driving in this stuff so we went to a closed lot and had some fun in the truck earlier. The best thing today was listening to the police and people calling in because kids and adult were out on the neighborhoods with atv, golf carts and UTV's, the captains answer was it is not a priority . Fu n times catching almost a full foot 20 miles from the coast

Can someone tell me what this is? South Louisiana is confused

It appears This is the card that will work for you. It seems the card you have won't even take a custom flash for HBA mode

What is the MB you are using ?? It could be me but I always try and use a SAS card vs on board headers for any thing data related

That has been the case for a few of us, Ive changed hardware twice now and it jumped off without a hitch

That's definitely solid

Ya know the cool thing about home labs today is you don't need all the enterprise grade hardware as it use to seem. A few SFF systems pull a premium while maximizing space and power usage. I remember when we have 4 2u servers stacked in a closet

i added the following folders, Music , Shows and movies. then moved the files into thoes folders

lol nah I dont have that much gear, all the good stuff is things at the office

funny as you say this I am currently doing some network cleanup and adding new wires for new toys

how you think i get my gains? I dead lift loaded 4u's for fun lol

Wanna make it funnier? Just know im 6'4 280lb kmsl