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I would be willing to be a beta tester, but I only have 1 license. If 2 licenses are required then would it be possible to acquire another at the early bird/black Friday pricing? Could even be a temporary license contingent on uptime of the beta release(s)? Just throwing out ideas I think another hurdle for many would be having a spare system for testing purposes, but if I could have a separate install on another drive then it should be no issue.

Very impressive setup. Do you have all the 8TB SSDs in a single pool?

If you're running the one click immich install the photos folder is made public to all users in your pool, so they would have access to those. I haven't looked into a work around because I am exclusively using my immich instance to share photos with my family. I would recommend creating a private folder for yourself to separate anything that you don't want others to have access to. Like @bashbash said, you can also create user specific private folders as well so everyone has their own directories within your pool(s) but if your family is anything like mine they will have a hard time logging into an SMB share with their user name and password every they are trying to connect.

Yea, I mean I don't expect day 1 support... but the development version is already available and the live beta is coming out next month, so I would at least hope that hexOS dev team can get ahead of these types of feature releases as they scale in the future. I know they have a lot on their plate so I will continue to temper my expectations until the official release is out.

Upcoming release looks very promising for feature improvements with Truenas (such as IP Addressing, VMs & LXCs). Hopefully the HexOS team can add these features to make exploring virtualization a lot more user friendly to the more or less inexperienced tinkerer types like myself. Here's the official documentation for anyone curious: https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/gettingstarted/scalereleasenotes/ https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scaletutorials/virtualization/

I'd assume he's talking about dual cpu systems (i.e. dual xeon dell power edge, etc.)

I agree, dockge is like a pocket knife whereas portainer is more of a swiss army knife

I only had very little experience with portainer prior to installing dockge this past week and 0 exp with dockge until then, but yea super simple and straight forward.

Hello Wanted to share these links to installing dockge & portainer on Truenas for anyone who is more savvy than I am. Dockge seems to be working for the most part, although I had 0 experience with docker compose until this past weekend. My experience with Portainer is also limited, and I have had networking issues trying to spin up containers through portainer, however I prefer it to dockge for management (which seems to have no issue). Anyway, I found these helpful for playing around with docker and spinning up homepage & heimdall to work on a home page solution for all of my homelab

Given you bought it for next to nothing I think the biggest factor of it being worth it will be cost to run 24/7 and noise. I acquired a newer power edge for slightly more with a ton of room to expand but even tweaking settings for the lowest fan speeds the humming of the fans was still audible in the next room over with the door closed so it was not suitable for my space

Get a W680 board if you care about ECC

In the shell you would just run sudo powertop and use the tab button to navigate. This is the idle stats page

lol nah you didn't. It's mainly the supermicro IO/front panel adapter that is really throwing a mess of unnecessary cabling everywhere and the original hardware used an HBA alongside already super log sata cables

It's definitely on my to-do list. I am going to deal with all of it at once after I get some new fans to replace the stock screamers that are 10+ years old and get shorter sata cables. Also, had to replace the 2U PSU with a silverstone TFX because that was actually the loudest component, so it is not properly mounted atm...but that should be an easy fix with a 3d printed adapter/bracket

Yea I deviated from the initial setup thinking I just import existing pools but it didn’t work out that way. Would be a major pain point if that isn’t implemented by 1.0 release