Mawson

Hi guys, I noticed a couple times tonight that tags on posts are very hard to read while in dark mode due to their dark color and thin font. Edit: This also applies to the "author" badge on posts

Currently we are locked into a RAIDz1 pool setup, but more levels of parity will be available later on, as well as the ability to add additional drives to expand a pool. I am told we will also be able to upgrade pools by replacing individual drives with larger units one at a time until all drives in the pool are the new capacity, at which point the pool size will expand all at once. EG: If you were to take a RAIDz1 pool with 8x 10TB drives (70TB usable) and sequentially swap those drives out for 20TB units, then when you are done the available pool size will jump up to 140TB

Hmm... That particular NAS seems to be designed/intended to only work with Netgear's OS. I'm sure it's possible with some serious hackery and wizardry, but after looking at the unit and the manual I don't think it would be an easy process. I also found a post on IX systems TrueNAS forum where a user was asking about installing TrueNAS on a similar Netgear unit, and the consensus was that it was not a good/easy idea, due to the unit being designed for their proprietary OS all the way down to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System. What a PC, or NAS, boots from) https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/questions-install-possible-on-readynas-rn31400.46612/

HexOS is a fully capable server OS on the back end, with all the difficult technical knowledge requirements that entails. The difference is that the front end is smoothed and curated for ease of use by those of us that aren't willing to devote weeks and months of our lives Its main focus is as a file storage server, but it can also host many interesting things such as local media servers (build your own netflix, spotify, etc), or game servers (minecraft, etc, etc), Voice communication servers like Teamspeak... the list goes on. Basically, its a platform to host and back up your files, AND host other apps if you want to.

I am also VERY interested in having Tailscale available as a curated app!

Interesting... I'll look into it!

I'm really Git Hub dumb... is that project a backup tool?

My wife and I live in the big city, and my folks (+2 of my siblings) live about 400 miles away. We all need a backup solution, so I'm building a pair of servers that will work as a team to give my whole family a solid data integrity plan, plus possibly some media and game server hosting and such. Overview: One server at each location. Servers will accept backups, files, etc from users devices Each local server will send copies of the local users' backups to the server in the alternate location. Each server may also be able to act as a media server as well, resources depending The Hardware: "Rincewind" - My local server Random-butt rack case from back when George W. Was in office. SilverStone 3x 5.25" ODD to 5x 3.5" HDD cage (SST-FS305-12G) 120 GB Kingston boot SSD 5x random 2TB HDDs (These need replaced before full deployment. Need at least 24TB usable to match the other server) Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X9scm-f LGA1155 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1240 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz un-buffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) "TheLibrarian" - Remote server at the parent's house. Used Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 (iirc) 8x random 4TB HDDs that came with the case Crucial boot SSD Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X10SSL-F LGA1150 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1246 v3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz unbuffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) Status and Next Steps: Add SSDs for cache once feature is available Upgrade both servers to 23GB of ram Continue to test HexOS config before dployment Wait for Buddy Backup feature to be available for testing. Continue playing with plex, immich, etc. Find a dead nuts simple incremental backup solution for Windows Deploy Servers and set up local machine backups If anyone has any suggestions for windows backup software I would love to hear them! Attached photos show my current tech cave/homelab setup

Great question... What model is the NAS?