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Yeah its simple but once you get into clusters and Vm management inside of that cluster it gets fun

I plan to order a HDHomeRun FLEX 4K to run with my setup, I just have to many irons in the fire to wanna pull the trigger to get one ATM

Thats in IDrac ? You might have to boot into the controller and make sure each drive is set to non raid.. If that option is not there you might be looking at needing to see if there is a firmware flash or the need of a new controller that will allow IT mode

Do you have each drive set to non-raid in the controller?

What perc card is it running?

Look at the guide THAT IS HERE

lol bad clipboard'n on my part it should be fixed now THIS LINK WORKS

Have you tried going into the truenas UI and erasing the drives ?

Why are you trying to do raid foe HExOs that does not support raid ? If you are trying to use thoes 3 drives in hexos you need to let it create the pool for you

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