The_Hawkeye

Maybe it's usefull if I add my use-cases: PLEX (of Jellyfin in future) Radarr, Sonarr (and other rrrr products) Qbittorrent Nextcloud Immich Off-site back-up to Hetzner over FTP of citircal data VM for Windows 11 (nice to have) for Media ripping Thanks again!

Hello, I'm about to start building my Hex OS NAS. At the moment I already have a "NAS" build around a 7700T + 16 GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz , running windows. My inital idea was to transfer this hardware into the Hex OS machine. However, with the recently (officially) announced re-launch of the 5800X3D an alternative is presenting itself. Build a new machine using my current "gaming" CPU a 5800X. In this scenario I would: Buy a new 5800X3D for gaming and use the 5800X for Hex OS Transfer the 16GB of DDR4 from my old Windows NAS to the Hex OS build Look for a new (of 2nd hand) cost-effictve AM4 MB with a many SATA ports as possible >> Any recomandations? Add a 2.5Gbe network card, intel I226 style Do I need a (parmanent) GPU ? I could use one during setup of-course. I sitll have a GTX970 laying around. The disks I'm planning to add into system are: 3x 14TB (new) Then extending the pool with a 12 TB + 14 TB drive (currently in use) after transfering the data on them from Windows to Hex OS. Any thoughts or other considerations I should take into account? Thank your your help and support! Hawkeye

@Mobius one more question is I may. Seeing that I have limited hardware... Is it possible to install HEXOS on a boot drive using old temporary HW that still have around (MB/CPU, etc), Create my pools on the temp system, installing all the apps I need Transfer the data from my current server over to the temp system, a bit a the time And then when all is done, transfer the HEXOS boot drive + the pooled drives (incl. data) to the hardware that makes up my system today. How would this work with the license ((I have only 1) ? How does HEXOS react to HW changes ?

@Mobius Thanks a lot for your in-depth answers! It's really helpful going forward!

Hi I'm currently running a win10 Ent. machine as a NAS/Server for many years without issues. Yes, I know this is far from "optimal" but it works for me. Over time it's been tuned so well, that it is now in a state in which I want to touch and change as little as possible. Unfortunately with the EOL of Win10 in October, I might not have choice... Therefore I'm thinking of changing to HexOS as an alternative. I do have several questions, challenges I see and I hope you guys can help resolve them and allow me to prep the new system. This is a long post, so apologies and many thanks for reading in advance! Current hardware: MB: Asus Maximus ranger VIII - Z170 CPU: Intel 7700T GPU: n/a (on-board) RAM: 16GB - DDR4 - 2133 MHz NIC: Intel I225 LM - 2.5Gbit network controller Boot-disk: Sasmung 830 - 256 SATA SSD HDDs - Total capacity: 41TB - Currently no RAID ! WD Green: 3TB (40% full) - my personal files and photos are on here and are backed-up off site at Hetzner WD RED: 4TB (58% full) Seagate baracuda: 4TB (23% full) WD RED Pro : 12 TB (54% full) WD RED Pro: 14 TB (64% full) WD Mybook: 4TB (32% full) - external - for back-up DVD-RW drive for back-in up physical media Next to the fact that Microsoft has decided to no longer support this hardware going forward, I still feel that is perfectly capable to perform the tasks that I want it to do. So I would like to keep the hardware for a least a few more years and not just turn it all into e-waste. The services/features I'm running: NAS for personal documents (no docs stored on my other machines) & photo storage (my full RAW collection that I edit in Light-room on another machine) - WD RED 4TB drive PLEX server - 12 + 14 TB WD Red pro drives PLEX adjacent services: SONARR, RADARR, BAZARR, JACKETT, TAUTULLI Qbittorrent for my Linux ISO's - 4TB WD RED + 4TB Seagate PIA VPN for all internet access, with some services like PLEX in SPLIT tunnel Service I would like to add: Nextcloud instance, I currently rent a nextcloud service at Hetzner in Germany (2TB) Other things I use the machine for: Backing up CDs using: Exact Audio Copy Backing up DVD: DVD Decryptor / Make MKV Downloading Youtube video: Free Youtube Download So now on to the potential HEXOS version of this machine: Does my current hardware (MB / CPU / RAM) support HEXOS ? Some of the services I run today are only compatible in Windows (e.g. Exact Audio copy), is my hardware capable of running a (Win11) VM on top of HEX OS + my other apps that will run natively (PLEX, SONARR, etc.) I fully realize that my current mis-match and no RAID setup is the absolute opposite of what HEXOS is doing. So what would be your proposed solutions ? As cost effective as possible please? Create 2 pools? e.g. 2x 4TB drives into a mirror pool for my personal data Add a new additional 12TB drive to create a 3 drive pool for my Linux ISO's (losing 2TB on one drive) Create 1 new pool: Investing in 3x new 18TB drives ? or other ? I only have 1 HEXOS license and 1 set of hardware to mount the disks, transferring over this amount of data it almost seems I will require two machines up and running? >> What would be the proposed method of transferring the data onto the new drive pools? Is there a way of temporarily mounting a drive into HEXOS to copy the data over to the new created pool ? Is there a know way of backing up/ maintaining the databases of PLEX, SONARR, etc from Windows and copying them over into new the new HEXOS versions? Other tips of things you guys think of I'm overlooking? As you can see, I'm really new to all of this! Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Hawkeye