PsychoWards

I forgot to answer about the Hexos license transfer part: Yes, that is possible and even very easier. On the Hexos website you just need to unclaim your old server and can then reclaim your new server, but It might take a couple of hours until your license because available again after unclaiming it from the old server.

Hey, please make sure you motherboard does not have a Realtek NIC, if it does, there's a high change that it will not work. In that case, you should get yourself an Intel NIC. Yes, everything over 32GB for the boot drive is wasted space, since you cannot use the boot drive for anything else then the OS. Apps are typically installed on a pool, this would be your HDD pool if you are not going to create a SSD pool as well. So your 250GB SSD is fine as boot drive, if you don't have a smaller one. Additionally, there is no write cache as other NAS OS might have, there is only a read cache, which doesn't offer a lot or any benefit with your use cases. So no, you don't need a cache drive, and big boot drive is just wasted space. 🙂

The reason Tailscale gets recommended so often is because it (and VPNs in general) is the most secure ways to access your services remotely. It's also pretty easy to install and get running. Nginx, on the other hand, is a completely different approach. To make lives a bit easier, let's take Nginx Proxy Manager instead of plain Nginx. Installing it is the easy part. The real work starts afterwards. You’ll usually need a domain, set up a DNS token for the certificate DNS challenge, configure something to keep your public IP updated, and create and manage all your subdomains. And all of that just to make your services reachable from outside your network. Once you’ve done that, your services are basically exposed to the entire internet. That means any device online can try to reach them. Because of that, you also need to put additional security measures in place to protect them from people trying to access or exploit them. Therefore only expose what you absolutely need to expose.

Happy to see that it's working now for you. 🙂 I still don't understand why this makes a difference which software you are using to create the USB drive, but hey at least it's running now. =D

Hey, you can basically look at any NAS or Server/Entreprise HDD WD Red Pro Seagate Ironwolf (Pro) Seagate Exos Etc... However they have all exploded in costs unfortunately. Looking at refurbished entrepris drives might also be a good alternative.

In that case, did you try another USB drive or just 1 single drive? Also try using Etcher instead of Rufus.

The above messages are coming after selecting the boot drive where Hexos should be installed or beforehand?

Hey, please keep us posted about the progress. Concerning why you shouldn't use a HW Raid in combination with Truenas, the official ZFS documentation has a great section about this you find it here: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance and Tuning/Hardware.html#hardware-raid-controllers

Hey, 1. The drive you are installing on, does it already contain an OS/was it used before or is it a new drive? If it was used in the past, can you please try wiping? This helped some people in here already which were also not able to install Hexos on an used drive. 2. Try installing Hexos without any data drives connected and then login into the UI and use following guide to migrate from Core to Hexos, you should follow the path for migrating to 24.10 or later https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/24.10/gettingstarted/migrate/migratingfromcore/ 3. Never use HW raid in combination with Hexos/Truenas, let the OS handle everything in SW raid. HW Raid + SW Raid gives you the disadvantages of both but none of the advantages 🙂

Hey, You changed the Truenas GUI ports, that's the problem. The Hexos button is pointing to the port 443 (https) or 80 (http) but nothing on the server is listening at that port thus the rejection. You currently cannot change the destination ports of the truenas gui button in Hexos. To keep its functionality, you need to revert back to the ports 80/443. If you want to keep your custom ports, bookmark the page in your browser 🙂

Hey, The quickest check which you can do; when you connect a display to your server, what IP address is shown? 10.0.0.28 or a different one?

Hey, So, the save approach would be to get an HBA card so that you can connect all 5 drives together and copy your data using the task replication in the Truena GUI. You can use the HBA in future if you want to add more then 4 drives to your pool or if you want to create a 2nd pool. However, if you don't want to buy a HBA card, you could, although I strongly advise against it, unplug 1 drive from your current pool, plug in the 3 other drives, create your new RaidZ1 pool and copy the data over this way, again using the Truenas replication task.

Hey, this depends on a couple of things. Do you have any apps installed? If yes, I'm not sure how this is going to look like after the migration to another pool. Also, do you have enough slots to connect all the drives at the same time? If yes, creating a new pool will be the only way to get more storage with your current number of drives. Once the new pool is create, you need to login into Truenas and use the task replication to copy everything over to your new pool. This is the best and safest way to copy things over to the new pool.

Hey, that's a very nice setup! Overkill? Your backup server maybe, if it's really only used as an offsite backup and not running any apps. Your main server? Let's call it future proof and not overkill =D 😉 What apps are you running?

Hey, Unfortunately Hexos does not offer the possibility to use any drive as a write cache, you can only use it as a read only cache drive, which only offers a benefit in particular use cases and streaming isn't one of them. You can use your current 500GB drive for the OS it's just a lot of wasted space. But if that's what you have and don't want to spent ridiculous amount of money for a new lower size SSD, go with the 500GB one. You don't necessarily need a new NIC, it's just possible that your current will not work, but not a certainty. Some of the newer Realtek NICs work fine. Give it a go and only buy a new NIC if yours isn't working or causing issues.