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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

I’m under the assumption that it won’t… but you’re probably right about most who have bought a license to think that it would, because of the way it’s been marketed. Power users will have little issue upgrading but the target audience might have some more trouble

First NAS I've ever had (excluding a 2012 Apple Timecapsule), and yes this is complete overkill for my current purposes, but go big or go home right? Anyway, here are the specs: - Asrock IMB-X1714 (W680 chipset ATX mobo) - Intel 12th gen i5 12500TE (6c 12t) so I didn't have to worry about the big/little architecture - Currently only running 1 stick of DDR5 32GB Micron ECC Udimm - 512GB INland Boot drive connected to the M.2 E key w/ an adapter card - Micron 7400 Pro 1.92TB mirrored with a 1.92TB Samsung PM983 M.2 SSDs on the mobo gen 4 & gen 3 slots respectively - 2 TeamGroup MP34 4TB M.2 SSDs mirrored; I have another one in an external USB4 enclosure that I plan to add to the pool if/when pool expansion is implemented on a Glotrends PA40 pcie 3.0 x8 card with an ASM 2824 chip with 4 m.2 slots. I am planning to replace it with a PEX/PLX 8747 based card to see if I can improve power efficiency - Unbranded dual 10Gb SFP+ from Aliexpress running Intel X710 chip - Chassis came from a NUUO Titan NVR, but it is really just a Supermicro SC 825 variant with 8 bays, only 1 currently populated with a 2TB WD HDD that I was initially using for testing before I installed HexOS. I know I kinda started contrary to how most servers are configured with an all nvme setup since there are 8 hotswap bays that are all currently unused in HexOS, but that's only because I got the 4TB SSDs for an insane price around ~$350 total from a local amazon return auction all new/sealed. I have an 8TB Samsung ssd for cold backups and I don't require more than that at the moment. I do plan on adding 2.5" or 3.5" drives to the mix once I get closer to 60-70% storage utilization. Pardon my cable management

Well done. What are you using to run this?

Sorry in advance if I've missed this somewhere else... however I wanted to know if version 1.0 will be built on top of the beta, or will everything up until the HexOS 1.0 release essentially have to be redone with a fresh install? I understand that this is a beta, but given that this product is marketed as a plug n play NAS OS solution I think it is a fair question for setting proper expectations

Mine is 3.0 x 8 with a 4 slot expansion and low profile (Glotrends PA40 but there are likely other brands using the same card since it appears to be a Chinese company) Have you checked c states in with powertop? I can’t get pkg hw past c2 so I am wanting to try and optimize further for lower idle power consumption

Anyone here have experience using pcie cards for m.2 expansion that doesn’t require mobo bifurcation? I currently have a card using an asmedia asm 2824 chip that is preventing deeper sleep/idle c states and was just wondering if anyone else has had luck with a similar setup. I am debating trying a different card and returning this one Ideally I am looking for a low profile card but just wanted to get some feedback from anyone who may know of a different chip that is suitable