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That should definitely do the job and look good in the process

I gauged with about 70% usage

I use "smart plugs" Like this from Amazon to track usage. One can also use a calculator to generate costs per year. And they are really close. Like I found it would cost me 250 a year to run my 15 drive nas with a 2060 for plex usage

It shows the spair for pool 2 not pool 1 where the drive is dead. I suspect because the hot spair was used already from pool 1. I would love to see the option to add more drives and allow them to be assigned hot spair for X pool

Is there a standard way to replace a drive in HexOs yet ? I know in Truenas I can out the drive and replace it in the pool but I am unsure if there is way it should be done in Hex. Yes I know we are still in beta mode and this may not have been addressed yet but figured I would ask the question

For ease of replacing dead drives I typically start with sda0 and make sure they are in order . They should have proper spacing for airflow because spinning disks will create heat. A pic of my nas for reference Temps stay 28-40c

Check out THIS VIDEO HERE

FOR EVERYTHING. Ok jokes aside at work we have a 4 server cluster for a computer node "note each box is a dell R940 quad Xeon with 1tb of memory per box" also we run a 5 server cluster for ceph storage. This handles a lot of production VM's and we have a isolated sandbox for other things . We also take advantage of using Proxmox backup server "colocated" for all that we do in our DC. as far as at home I use proxmox for my remote gaming computer and home DB server, Another Proxmox server of mine is Co-located at a friends house that is being used as production and dev box.

To answer short Yes, HexOs could be a all in one shop for a home lab, Hex/Truenas has it advantages and draw backs like other hypervisors. So far in my testing and playing besides the limiting factors on my hardware setup I mainly use it for small Apps , Plex and Immich while using a Dell R730 for my heavy lifting VM's. I have tested both windows and linux Vm's and it performed as expected from a hypervisor. YYou can run a VPN like TailScale or if you have a domain you can use CloudFlare to access things outside of your network with out any issues " it will need setup outside of the Hexos gui ". For the Plex comment If you have older / slow hardware that would not be suitable to run as a nas and plex, it is easy to run 2 different computers to run plex and have it point back to the shares in HexOs. I have done this previously when I still was using a older Lenovo Ix2 Nas while using plex in a Hyper-V instance . For reference this is what i am using my HexOS for at the moment

It's not bad. Was worse when I a pair of 730s running full time. Thoes were rehomed thanks to friends allowing me to relocate

@Dylan I forgot to remove it from the table, might have over done the weight limits lol.

So keep in mind you can swap in a typical power supply if you buy the adapter cables. And if you get a bit creative with a 3d printer you should be able to add a few more drives or make a external drive caddy to connect more if the pc is not going to move

Yeah the first pics were in the livingroom the latest pics were from my ham shack. But thoes tables work well

LOL notice how they are on TV dinner stands, once i get my half rack in it should be better

Yeah I am not gonna say they are best use case for Hex. They do make one hell of a Proxmox node

Atm its not doing anything. Since I got this going I have not had the time to set it up inside of truenas. Once I do it will be on plex now that I will be ripping most of my movie collection, I have another box that will host my 1080TI and a p104-100 on proxmox for my VM's

I just point all of my devices to the tailscale IP and it works if im on prim or away

Seems like a solid start

Try THIS coming from the thread you can find HERE

heck yeah looking good, it is builds like this that prove you dont need fancy hardware

I mean have you ever seen kick starter ? at least you get something with out the wait lol

Only if we can XDCC get a iso

Ok so after chasing the wires I was able to get everything back up and running. "It was a loose cable in sata port 4" now I'm showing all drives working. Inside of truenas I show no more errors but inside of hex dash it shows errors but I believe it's rebuilding or just taking time to catch up. For now I will run the 2060 for encoding tasks but it all fits in the case and although it's a bit ugly in the wiring department it will work. So to recap I went from a generic sli raid card to a 3com card with 4 more sata slots with out any issues once I figured everything out and was able to add another pool.

So to hit on your boot drive redundancy you will need to have a computer that can raid drives together in a raid0/1 configuration. If you are worried about loosing your os drive in the meantime I suggest looking Into a program called urbackup. You can run it on a windows computer and do regularly backups and deployment if you have the os drive fail. If you wanted to dual boot you could if you wanted during install you will have to partition the drive to hold both os versions. It's kinda odd to do it this way but if you need a windows machine I would reccomend building a VM threw the truenas ui for this. If you want to access the Linux side of things to determine the issue with the network I would just load Into the truenas ui and follow the steps. Web UI access: Go to the System Settings section in the TrueNAS web interface and select "Shell" to open a terminal window within the browser.

If you really wanna take the deep dive you can look into UrBackup . I use it for all my computers here at home and at work. Atm it is all going to a off site locations with 1g/1g connection.