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I told you you this guy ^^^ is a thread ninja! Thank you @Mawson this is logical, relevant and super helpful!

Damn! And I remember that the pricing was more or less equivalent..

Bet. I would be interested in your results. If you decide to post any updates (transfer speeds, file size, transfer method etc) please tag me if you can remember. No bigs if not, I'd just like to drill into the various potential xfer rates and what others are seeing. Cheers.

@Nandroya Nice! That looks fun and good use of that Dell.

@ubergeek - How has this been going? Just deployed my new rig today and am seeing reduced xfer speeds. The most likely culprit are the 10yo disks on my older NAS. Just curious. Thanks!

Finally got the Aoostar this week and HexOS installed today. The Aoostar (on the right) will be replacing the 10yo 2x4TB Netgear ReadyNAS (on the left). That thing still does its thang with the ORIGINAL drives! I put 4x8TB drives in the new NAS giving me about 23TB of storage. I won't move anything important over to the new device until at least 1.0 and/or until raid2z is fully supported. Really pleased with the build quality of the Aoostar device. Solid framing, quiet fan and lots of ports.

@HappyDace - Welcome to the fold and have a fun! Sounds like you are well on your way!

@misterlegend - That's great! Do you think the Aoostar will better meet your needs? I finally got mine earlier this week and installed it today. Just going to run the basics and get a little familiarized with TrueNAS while the HexOS dev team continue to drive to 1.0 (great photos BTW!)

@DomSmith - Love it! Keep'em coming..I love build like this,

@PenguinKing - Your handle and cogent approach to thread management speak volumes. Tagging @Mawson

Hey there. I just noticed your reply. How goes it?

From a hardware perspective that looks fine but I'd still review the HARDWARE requirements post as well as some of the comments. Personally, while I've not used that specific server, if you can, maybe throw some more RAM in there. Have fun!

I'm over here on the East Coast!

OP is talking about over and over which is at least 2 power cycles and I didn't mention anything about spin-down issues.You did. I recommended leaving them on as power cycling them can increase the wear on the spindle head, head parking and unparking, thermal expansion and contraction among other stressors.

I'm older than I care to admit and I still get excited by new toys.

Hi @SandLake - There is a lot to unpack here. First, welcome! We have similar device; I just got THIS ONE this week. Rsync is probably the best way to transfer as it has flags (-P) that help if a transfer is interrupted. As to why your copied data is not visible within Plex, I am unsure. Is the data visible on the drive itself and only not visible in Plex? Might need more info to help chase this down. Lastly, HexOS is absolutely targeted to folks who want an easier time managing their NAS solutions. However, please keep in mind that HexOS is still in beta with quite a lot of work ahead before a full 1.0 release comes out. So I recommend managing expectations over time. Hope that help and best of luck!

Hi @__init__ - Unless electricity cost is an issue spinning HDD's really should be left on. Powering them up and down over-and-over is where trouble happens.

Don't tease me @Mawson! My house is 30yo with the original coax and zero ethernet behind the walls! It's SO frustrating! lol...

I've got 12 days off in a row (woot!) with new hardware, new software and time to tinker. Building a new NAS has me so far down the rabbit hole that I'm considering paying contractors to re-run coax in my house, add ethernet where I want it just to get my new rig situated just the way I want it. Happy holidays to me? Whatch y'all planning on doing?

Hi @AcuityAce - Importing pools is not yet supported so if you were to perform an install, it would be a fresh install wiping any/all data.

Odd. Maybe you got a bad one...they do fail more frequently than NIC's and Ethernet cabling. If you ever want to test your throughput Iperf3 is a production grade tool.

Right?! He up there taking his shirt off talking 'bout "the beach is that way"...bruh...I KNOW where the beach is.

Hi @The Big Duck - 1) Yes. 2) $299 but before you think about installation, I urge you to review the compatibility guide found HERE. Good luck!

Hi @Syko - Should not be that hot. I regularly worked with SFP (like) connections in HPC clusters using Infiniband (400GB interconnects) and when that line gets saturated they can get REALLY hot. So, unless there is some chassis/OEM issue that might bugger them, a 1GB throughput shouldn't be an issue but I'd love to hear your experiences!

Hi @steakboy 1) If you intend to run VM's, yes, get a CPU that supports it. 2) I'd say yes, but I do know folks that are power conscious and there are considerations about proper core usage efficiencies that HT can impact. However, with your use-case this is likely negligible. 3) If you have the capacity and budget then a discrete GPU may be the way to go. However, you'll see that article explains that integrated GPU's can also meet many needs. I will be using the Intel N100 for basic file sharing and relatively light transcoding, but YMMV. Spend some time research both and compare against your needs and budget. Good luck!