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Most of the home lab/DIY content I've seen recently is REALLY unhappy with these changes. Glad I never locked in with Synology.

I suspect that the general technical IQ of our community has been elevated as a direct result of the HexOS development time. We've collectively worked to solve, hack and workaround quite a bit. Just take a look at our DIRECTORY OF GUIDES not to mention the wealth of posts with amazing feedback. All of this will enable future users access to information that will help solve THEIR issues. (always plan to make life better for future you) But I also get it. We've been in this for 6 months, we've paid and we're still in for additional dev time. I wonder if the expectation of NOW is larger than the idea of investment towards a greater good. Perhaps. Your money, time, patience, experience and tolerance is different from mine. No better. No worse. I post this not to advocate for or against any situation you are trying to solve by using HexOS. Only offer my own perspective that I think this will be a fun ride. Like anything else worth learning it will be fraught with frustration, elation and growth. A ride I feel is worth the price of admission. This is the ground floor and I'm enjoying contributing and seeing others contribute towards a novel, innovative solution. One that may take more time than I'd like. But it's not about me. It's about the journey. Respect to all.

Create a bootable USB drive and use something like Dr Parted or, perhaps even better in your case Rescuezilla, to live boot into your system which will give you the ability to view drive contents and, if you use Rescuezilla, create a backup of your primary OS drive before installing the second drive intended as a mirror.

Never apologize for swearing. It's evolution's way of micro-stress reductions. IMHO

Dang! Pics please!

But for the Terramaster brand, this is almost identical to my setup and I have the same use-case (backup & Media server) and so far have been super happy. Have fun!!

@Mindless999 Correct.

Samsies.

That's a great deal! What are your deployment/configuration plans?

Thank you so much @Sonic!!

Keep us posted @ulfn!

I don't know for how much longer you can self refer as "less technical" - you're doing some pretty tech-fu stuff and, as far as I can tell, both enjoying and understanding it. Well done!

I'd get both if I could but depending on release time - such a fun little device. I love this kind of innovation. I can recall numerous times myself and others have said something like "why is KVM so damn hard to get right" or "why does ipmi have to have suck" lol...

Thanks man. I need a few for both work and home.

100%!!! And a huge thank you to @ShinobiRen for taking your time to create this helpful guide! Directory of Guides has been updated.

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I've found it confusing on whether or not kickstarter is still accepting orders or if I should just wait for retail?

@ulfn This is fantastic! I love the design and implementation - how will you be using it? (this is really fun stuff!!)

ZFS is the filesystem only used.

Hi @RSOL I'd look at TailScale which can enable you to interact with you remote data as if it were local. If local (and remote with some configuration) I am a HUGE fan of RSync do to its ability to create a delta of data copied should a transfer attempt fail.

Raidz2 is DEF the front runner but 36TB is not what I'll yield in usable space. After formatting call it 35TB minus 20% to keep ZFS write-caching happy and healthy and I'm left with ~28TB of usable storage. Which when measured against my 4x8TB N100 NAS (raidz1) gives me ~17TB of usable capacity using the same -20%. 4x8TB @ $150 per drive (not including a spare) = $600/17TB = ~$35 per TB (raidz1) 4x18TB @ $300 per drive (again, not including a spare) = $1200/28TB = $42 per TB (if in a raidz2) While I DO love me some redundancy the price per TB rise using raidz2 is what is making me flinch a little. Don't mind me....I'm just complaining about costs 🙃

Thanks @Sonic, good feedback. I think I'll keep the AMD for all other non-media streaming activities. Now I just need to decide on raidz1 or 2...

That right there is my biggest concern. If I deploy the AMD device and it struggles with transcoding, I'd have to revert back. If I keep the N100 for Plex (and like I mentioned, it is doing that very well) I'd then use the AMD device as a backup to the N100 and for all other NAS stuff. Maybe I'll do some searching to see if any others have reported transcoding struggles with that specific AMD chipset. Thanks everyone!!

Two devices, same manufacturer with slight different specs. Aoostar, N100 chip, 32GB RAM, 4x8TB raidz1 (currently deployed as primary media/NAS server) Aoostar, AMD Ryzen 7 5825U, 64GB RAM, 4x18TB raidz2 (likely raidz2, disks inbound) Would it make better sense to keep the lower N100 model as primary (which is doing just fine) or reverse and deploy the AMD version as primary and use the N100 as just a backup device? Tagging @Sonic as I know he has the AMD version in use. Thanks!

Thanks for the follow up - always super helpful for users to be able to search for problems and find posted resolutions.