Jakor

Thank you to you and everyone that put together these tutorials. I was excited to give this a try, but even with the tutorials, this seems to be a less than straightforward process. On the first guide linked, I immediately encountered discrepancies between how my Truenas was configured/behaved and how the guide assumed your Truenas would function. First, the dataset I created did not seem to have the same "strip ACLs" button shown. My permissions section looked a little different as a result, but I feel comfortable tweaking the list manually to make it match the guide. The bigger issue for me was that I couldn't get my computer (MacOS via terminal) to SSH into the Truenas server. I kept getting a permissions denied error. I tried a small amount of googling, but I'm not sure I have the time or patience to try to attempt this. The second tutorial seems a little less beginner friendly. I thiiiink I could try to figure it out, but immediately after my first attempt of tweaking the permissions, I'm getting endless "operation not permitted" errors in the terminal. This is clearly user error on my end, but I wanted to post this for other HexOS users here - I definitely feel like I am the target audience of introductory homelabber that doesn't care to tinker with these things and I wanted to share my experience for other's visibility before they invest the time themselves. Unfortunately, I think it will be a better use of my time to wipe and start over on my immich backup. Hopefully they stay true to their word and this is the last time they make this sort of change, or I will probably look elsewhere for backing up my photos in the future. Thank you again to those that took the time to try to document guides on this process!

Thank you - that is reassuring. i also noticed this morning that there already are scrub tests scheduled every 3 days in the truenas UI - so i assume that was at least configured by HexOS. I’ll probably add my own scheduled SMART tests every week or so just to be safe.

Thank you for confirming! Does that mean that HDDs could fail without warning in the HexOS beta if someone did not know to set this up? If so, shouldn’t this be added to the installation tutorial to warn new users that they should be setting this up to protect themselves from data loss?

Doing some research last night, I noticed that most people running truenas will run daily or weekly scrub tests on their HDDs. HexOS and the truenas dashboard have always said my drives are healthy, but I suspect that’s because there weren’t any logged smart tests. To be safe I ran a short smart test on all three drives - no errors popped up, but now I’m wondering - should I be running these tests on a schedule in the truenas interface, or were those features already included in the HexOS beta?

There's some seriously impressive and creative rigs here! I'm on the lower-end of specs (trying to stay on a budget until I get the hang of things and establish what my actual needs are), but things have been going smoothly so far! Hoping to upgrade to a Jonsbo case one day and fill it with hand-me-down hardware from my gaming rig. Bought the following off FB marketplace for about $125. -Case: HP P600 (holds up to x5 3.5" HDDs with some minor modifications to add hot-swappable slots on the front and an additional fans in the front/side. -CPU: Ryzen 2600 -RAM: 16GB -Mobo: Asrock a320m-hdv micro ATX -GPU: Nvidia GTX970 (considering removing to reduce idle power draw - don't think this is useful for anything other than a video output) -Boot drive: random 128 GB M.2 SSD (not sure of brand.... hoping HexOS adds the ability to backup the configs sooner than later...) -PSU: Phanteks Revolt 1000W 80 Plus Platinum (laughably overkill.... computer came with a sketchy EVGA white PSU that I replaced ASAP - this is a hand-me-down from the gaming rig.) -Storage: (x3) 10 TB shucked HDDs (two seagate barracudas and one WD). Looking forward to expanding this one day soon! Hopefully the below specs help assure others just how easy it is to run this software. I'll definitely need to upgrade my memory and CPU if I start loading too many apps on it, but this runs immich just fine for now with about 50% of RAM to spare!