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Thus I will be running by 10yo 2bay RN212 until WHEELS FALL OFF that little so-and-so. Damn thing refuses to die.

Looks like the interface will have the ability to show the drive SN.

Other than potentially your LAN, looks like a good home build. I have a similar rig just less RAM and CPU is not that powerful (16GB and Intel N100). Good luck!

You need at least 2 drives to install. However, three is recommended to you can potentially expand your storage in the future. See THIS POST for a list of hardware and storage requirements.

I bought mine two days ago and it took ~6 hours before I got my confirmation. Be patient, both the staff and servers are getting their butts kicked just now.

Yeah, I'd have to pay for a cable run from bedroom downstairs...so hoping the new device I just bought (with exos drives) isn't louder than my current nas.

There should be a path to "enable" wifi usage but not "support" it. Enabling it allows it's usage but if you want some help? Plug your box into an Ethernet port. We can (should?) have it both ways.

That would be a dream migration . I'll settle for stability and ease of use up front today and hope for the better migration tools further down the line. They'll get there...

So, it doesn't sound like there is current consideration for migration with a single license. I'd wager that, over time, a temp license (or some other work around) would be given to remain fair for honest use cases. On the flip, licenses are still only $99 so maybe buy an extra just in case.

overkill = future proofing If you've got the funds and know how to leverage your resources well, then...go for it.

How many TrueNAS users actually use ECC? Curious about anecdotal feedback if non-ECC users tend to experience greater failure rates.

Preach!

Found good pricing on drives but they were explicit in stating that these were 4Kn drives. Has anyone ran into any compatibility issues? Thinking older OS's etc... Thanks!

I just picked up THIS PUPPY for the same use-case but I do stream. For sub $400 it's quite capable. You can spend more and get a more powerful CPU and more RAM but I don't really need all of that. Good luck!

Just got my email receipt as well. The license can be viewed in your account purchase details.

Really excited to use ZFS for the first time (assuming adoption by HexOS) at home. I used to support several advertisement racks that used ZFS and grabbed THIS BOOK to get up to speed. It took a bit of study, making mistakes and learning how to fix them before I felt comfortable managing a vdev storage pool but ZFS is legit. Might even try to set up a VPN on the new NAS I just bought so...fingers crossed.

I'd wager that, like TrueNAS, it will be ZFS.

Any OS/device with a browser should be able to access (as a client) the HexOS (the server) resources, assuming permissions and other access control parameters are met.

Time to replace my 10yo 2x2TB (original WD's) NETGEAR ReadyNAS. Just bought the N100/16GB version of the Aoostar WTR Pro (haven't settled on which disks to use, yet) I really only use my NAS for storage and streaming. That little 2 bay netgear with an ARM quad-core 1.4GHz processor and 2GB RAM did everything I needed. Now, with this new hardware that comes with Win11, I need to settle into a new NAS OS and hoping HexOS can be that for me. Lifetime for $99? I'm in!