matthew Stephens

I got my Hex OS system up and running a month or so ago, bought a "nas chassis" from Ali express, that holds 8 drives easily swappable, and used my old gaming PC components, minus the graphics card, to build up a backup NAS. 8*8Tb drives give more than enough space to backup a 4 bay Synology with 2*16Tb and 2*8tb disks in, Allows me to power it up, backup my data from the Synology NAS and then shut it down again (UK based and having another older PC running all the time to just do the odd backup is a little much for power consummation. Will get more familiar with it and then hopefully I can get more efficient, newer motherboard and CPU, and if we get something like SHR down the road, I could replace the disks and move that to primary.

Hi, Not sure if this has been requested or not, so forgive me if so. It would be nice to see an easy to view Raid/disk setup in the Storage section. so as it shows now it shows Icons for each disk you have plugged in, both used and unused. I'd like to see a section or note that say something like, Pool 1 is configired with ZFS-1 or ZFS-2 etc. I realise this is stuff that could be gotten from the backend, which I'm not familiar with yet, but would just be nice to show a quick info line about the disk setup, Maybe a line that says Pool configured with ZFS-1 and then the same help bubble from the setup screen that tells you what that means? Its more for comfort then anything, I created a pool of 4 disks to stat and have now added 4 more, but nowhere do you see what the redundancy setup is now that its past that part in the configuration. least that I can see anyway, maybe I'm wrong? Not a big deal, just a nice to have for comfort. Thanks

I havent setup my system yet, but this is a feature I'd love somewhere down the road. I currently use a Synology NAS as my primary NAS also, 4 bay with originally 8Tb disks in, I've upgraded 2 drives already to 16Tb ones, so the idea is to use HexOS on a DIY NAS as a backup to the Synology, and utilise the old disks in it, plus more I have already, I'd end up with more disks in the backup NAS to cover the larger drives in the Synology but it allows me to still use those disks, while also learning more about HexOS and TrueNAS on the backup system to not affecting the main NAS, and get comfortable with it. Then I'll likely switch to using the DIY NAS with HexOS as the main machine, but by that time I'd be looking to put the bigger disks in that too, so something like SHR would be great.