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Following to see what you get for the JBOD. I have a bunch more 2.5 slots on my r730xd, but some exos 20tb drives could be pretty sweet someday.

Found a pretty cool docker app. Could be used to turn your HexOS server into a Steam Remote Play host. https://github.com/Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless I would totally stream from my server to my SteamDeck handheld when the handheld GPU isn't cutting it.

I thought it was a very good deal for the refurbished unit. $399 before tax, came with 4 1.2tb sas drives/the cpus/ram, and it had lots of room to grow. All the rest of the budget was just adding more drives/drive sleds and the GPU. I knew I was migrating a decent sized plex library, wanted some ssd storage for apps, and a GPU that fit in the server case for transcoding (the 3050 is completely PCI bus powered, so no extra cables needed).

Background: I work as a System Administrator professionally managing Windows Servers, Virtualization, QNAP Nas's, and other network engineering. I had an old Windows Server I cobbled together at home years ago I was running plex, home assistant, and some other stuff; but it's been on its deathbed for a few years now. It was time for an upgrade, and LTT convinced me to give HexOS a try. The Build: Amazon Refurbished Dell R730XD w/ 128GB of ECC memory, dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz (28-cores total), 6 - 1.2TB SAS HDD (going to add 2 more soon), 4 - 1TB SATA SSDs, OS on Mirrored 240GB SATA SSDs, NVIDIA 3050 for Hardware Transcoding. I have another 12 open drive slots to expand later if needed. Total cost of build: $1,272.82 The Configuration: I did a lot of stuff in unrecommended ways to see just how well HexOS/TrueNAS adapts, and went beyond a curated experience to get a good feel of the value HexOS adds to TrueNAS. This is also partially because I was replacing services I use with yet-to-be-curated apps. I have to say, HexOS handled what I threw at it very well. I found setting up a HomeAssistant VM in TrueNAS to be pretty straightforward, albeit more advanced than I would expect a family member to achieve, but not bad. I did install plex/immich via the curated way. Both required a touch of tweaks to get them to use hardware transcoding and a permission fix for images to get from uploads to the pictures folder, but they were technically usable in the curated state. Romm was another story though... I went through and made up the datasets w/ ACLs in the way plex/immich did, and doing that work manually is honestly an unintuitive pain. That's where my title comes from because I had begun to doubt how much HexOS was doing in the background to provide a polished experience. Getting Romm working abolished my budding doubts. Keep up the good work HexOS team!

Forgive me if this is too meta for this forum section. I had a few feature requests I wanted to write up. However, while doing my due diligence before posting, I found both were suggested but not yet supported in TrueNAS. I assume TrueNAS prioritizes more enterprise-impactful features because those are their paying clients. But now that there is a consumer revenue stream through HexOS, is there a path for consumer-friendly features to have a higher weight of priority? The requests I wanted to write up: WebUI File Manager https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-109580 GPU info Widget https://github.com/truenas/webui/discussions/9865