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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.

Yeah that's solid. I'm on a I3 8350k 32gb of ram Now 15x 4tb drives Still trying to fit a p104-100 for plex but had to stick with a 2060 because of room issues

It's hard for me to judge power usage , I would reccomend getting a kill-a-watt and running each and do the math.

It might not be the most power efficient but with the right 2011 cpu that should do well

Also end table options

So things didn't go as I had planned, I went to boot the computer up and the power supply I had apparently bit the dust and would only now power the motherboard and ssd. Upon swapping out the now dead psu for a spair 500 watt I got life. Not the life I expected. Only 11 of the 12 drives showed up on the sli card. This now leaves my current setup broken. So when I have time tomorrow I'll have to dive back in this wiring nightmare and chase sata connections on the first 2 bays.

First update.. the p104-100 was a but to long for this build "it hits the hot swap cages." So I swapped in a RTX 2060 for the time being. Pics will be up as soon as I finish wiring

At least a half rack. Or a 1/3 rack as a coffee table

This is for documentation purposes. This will be the third modification to this nas build. The system will comprise of I3 8350k on an Asus prime X370-a 32gb of ddr4 @ 3000 speed I am adding a nvidia p104-100 mining GPU unlocked to 8gb ram. I had 8x4tb drives moving and adding 6 more ** " might be 4 after I weed out the bad drives" I think the hardest thing will be the fact that I am also swapping raid cards and this may Bork Hexos in the process but hopefully it will see the previous storage and work with no issues because I will me adding them back in the same order

This will be a placeholder for my expermantal use with a old mining card P104-100 that has been firmware unlocked to use all 8 gigs of memory on the board "typically 4 or 6 gigs is how they released them" . I've used these cards in proxmox with great results. From my testing is they act like a 8gb 1080 "non ti" so I expect similar results in how it runs in plex for encoding. There will more added once I get my whole nas rebuilt after getting a new hand me down case from a friend.