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While that my be true in the mirror, one of the two boot partitions are being actively booted into, while the other is further down the order - that's what I meant by first/second

Yes you can select both and then both drives will be used for the boot pool. I don't know exactly how it works, but if your first boot drive dies you should be able to boot from your second drive and get back into operation

I would sooner recommend a tried and tested HBA in IT mode over something like this. I'm curious what chip this uses Wow this is really interesting! I never really stopped to consider the actual size of the SSD hardware - crazy how dense it is!

If you start with two drives you can't nicely expand the pool via HexOS, but can probably drop and recreate the pool with the third drive later on. Not sure if/how data would be retained

Does Lidarr automatically sort a flat folder of mp3s into this tree structure without any prompting?

Hey there, do you also have a 10Gb ethernet capable switch? Or at least another 10Gb ethernet NIC for another computer? The drivers for this network card are likely not installed by default. From some googling, it sounds like this NIC uses the AQC107 chip, which another user was asking about: There are lots of posts about solid performance with this NIC in both Core and Scale, so people have definitely gotten it to work in the past. You would likely need to manually install the driver Also check out this old but still good and valid resource on 10Gb TrueNAS nics: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/10-gig-networking-primer.42/

Just to add, I can't find the thread but the HexOS team advised to not perform any underlying TrueNAS updates as it could break HexOS

I always like some separation of concerns - wouldn't want a broken update to your NAS to bring down your DNS or DHCP server 🙂

I would honestly love for community members to be able to contribute their own one click installers if HexOS could provide a framework for us to do so. Recently went through the process of installing some Arrs and honestly with the minimal UI changes necessary, it should be easy to automate. This would enable users to provide community-vetted app installers

How do you plan to install drives on the laptop? Often times laptops have limited, soldered components with little room for expandability. Connecting drives over USB is not recommended. How many drives can the optiplex case / mobo support? Both CPUs have quick sync support, which is intel's on-chip transcoding which should be perfectly competent for some plex streams.

From Plex docs: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/

The default should really be to follow posts you write or comment on :S

I've seen some reports that some Arc GPUs work well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coqkIj0rnfA&t But also some threads with some problems with Plex inside of TrueNAS: https://forums.truenas.com/t/plex-app-and-intel-arc-gpu/9618

There were always bottlenecks along the way. At first the HDDs were too loud for my office environment, so I went with SSDs. But 1Gb networking was way too slow, so I went for 10Gb networking. But then due to older motherboard, one of the SSDs was in a SATA 3Gbps port, which reduced throughput. Then one HBA later and we now have full 10Gb connectivity 🙂

@Thejs1234 Re: AMD GPUs and plex hardware transcoding, see https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ Best of luck! 🙂

Pretty awesome to see how capable the N100 is. How's the idle power consumption of your whole box? And is the N100 capable of saturating your networking? I wonder if it could handle 10Gb transfers

Something to consider is that SSDs are more power efficient than HDDs, albeit at a higher price / TB. I couldn't stand the clicking of the HDDs in my NAS in my office, but the power savings are also nice for something on 24/7

Something to consider is that you may be network bottlenecked with your HDDs already 🙂 My SSD pool is faster than my 10Gb networking

That case looks great. I'm sure you could 3D print some more drive cages to fill up that entire vertical stack with drives. Have you used the RX580 for plex before? I wonder how many streams it can handle

There is the official roadmap to 1.0, but this doesn't have concrete timelines

This can definitely be done in TrueNAS. I previously had a cron job which ran a script to email me pool health statistics and SMART test results. System -> Advanced settings -> Cron jobs

@Jamerperson Just curious what the use case is for multiple HexOS / TrueNAS servers in your homelab? Is it for separation of concerns for different types of data?

Hi all, wanted to share my HexOS box which previously ran TrueNAS! Case: iStar D-214-MATX (2U, 2 External 5.25" Bays) Motherboards: Supermicro X10SLL-F CPU: Xeon E3-1271 v3 RAM: 2 x 16GB Drives: 3 x 2TB Inland Platinum TLC SATA SSDs NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-3 (SFP+) HBA: Dell H310 The most notable feature is the Icy Dock 6 Bay 2.5" Disk Enclosure (MB608SP-B). The enclosure fits in a 5.25" slot, so I can have 2 x docks for 12 total hot swappable 2.5" drives 😄 I definitely don't need hot swappable bays, but pretty cool to have them. With the SSDs and the 10Gb NIC, I'm able to achieve 1 GB/s reads and writes. For large files, my networking is the current bottleneck: Here are some pictures of the build:

If you missed that option (like me 😬) during your install you can also do it after the fact

A fresh start is probably a good idea 🙂 It sounds like you plugged your HexOS box into your WAN, rather than the LAN side of your router. I imagine your network configuration changed when you did this, which is why you lost access and why HexOS reported your WAN IP.