SpyderChiken

I have a couple enterprise drives that I was thinking about setting up for metadata on my storage pool. Has anyone done this? Is it worth it? Are there any drawbacks?

I would figure out a way to use rails so things can slide in, and out stacking is an issue for maintenance, repair, and upgrades. Just my two cents though. I got closet to play granted it's my closet so it's not like she could say no.

When I started TrueNAS was kind of daunting now, I don't mind hopping in feet first. I've got more horsepower than I know what to do with. I want to add a certificate for SSL but haven't had time to figure that part out. Right now, I'm debating adding a special vdev to the main pool since it's got 3 20TB drives and I plan on it growing any thoughts? Any ideas on what to do next?

I'll over try to take over the world on weekends I don't have the luxury of trying every night. I'm just getting into the new house and my networking is almost finished (cable management remains). My rack is built, the server is mounted and I am waiting on drive adapters. This weekend is going to be focused on moving from the old house but next weekend will be, hopefully, focusing on finally trying to transfer everything over from Unraid. My plan as of now is to use Proxmox as my host OS and then setup a VM for HexOS. It's going to be work but should be fun when finished. I'm already getting asked when my plex server will be put back online.

I'm waiting for a few more features and for my new build. I have Unraid running right now with 56TB usable with 1 spare drive and I want to migrate that over to HexOS but migrating ZFS pools is not possible yet. I also want to upgrade to a new server that has more capability dual 14 core Xeon 192 GB ram 60TB usable with two spare drives.

I think your limit would hit your transcode device first unless you are using an Nvidia card. I only say Nvidia because I haven't been able to get my AMD card to transcode. I think LTT did a video on it a while back and showed that even a cheap card meant you could upload to several clients at once.

I've had my license for years and I've watched things fall off over time. I wish that they would be brought back. The image backup so I didn't need a different program was nice. Plugins to add functionality also nice. Downloading copies to my clients used to work well. So many things used to work well and instead of fixing the issues with those things that have since broken they have instead focused on adding free content to watch. While I like the on-demand things I would prefer to have all the features I started with working. At the same time the price made sense then and I've had it for over ten years so yeah, I'd do it again. My biggest issue with all of it is the privacy thing. It feels like they are going to start selling my data any minute now.

I currently have an Unraid server that I am using for my NAS but am a bit frustrated with many things like giving access to people other than myself and then there is the fact that it has trouble with rebooting (it hangs). I'm looking at building a new server to put HexOS on and then transfer my files to that before moving the disks over. What are the thoughts of using the system below for the new system? My intent is to not need to move to another chassis for a very long time. I have 3 20TB drives currently and would put 2 new 20TB drives in this system so I would have 5 drives for storage and then add a few others for cache. I know that the specs are likely overkill, but I want to run a few games servers as well as Plex, Immich, NZBGet, Lancache, and who knows maybe some AI stuff. SuperMicro SuperServer 6028U-TR4T+ 2U Rackmount W/ X10DRU-i+ Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 2.3GHz 18-Core Processors Memory: 128GB DDR4 Registered Memory Storage Controller: 12Gbps IT Mode PCIe Storage Controller Flashed to IT Mode; No RAID Power Supply: 2x 1000W 80Plus Platinum Power Supplies