PsychoWards

Hey, no this will not work as you've described it. With 2 drives Hexos will automatically create a mirrored pool, meaning your data will be stored on both drives at the same time and you will only have the capacity of 1 drive but you can lose 1 drive without losing data. You cannot create a Pool without parity with more then 1 drive. A RaidZ Pool type cannot be changed after it was created, so you will be stuck with your mirrored pool and you cannot expand it. If you then throw in your 4 drives from the old NAS, Hexos will create a new RaidZ1 pool, which has the capacity of the numbers of drives -1 (capacity of 3 drives in your case). You can then copy the data from your mirrored pool to your RaidZ1 pool. If however, your mirrored pool does not have enough capacity, get yourself a 3. drive to create a RaidZ1 from the beginning, copy your data over and afterwards add your drives from your NAS to the pool or create a new pool. (expanding a pool can only be done with 1 drive at a time and takes some time). Also make sure all your drives have the same capacity or else Hexos will not group them together.

It's always clearly described who gets what, on the main page, in the forum post and in the email. The only way you don't know the different prices is if you just blindly click a link in this forum without reading the corresponding posts. 🙂

1 system/installation requires 1 license. And Buddy Backup is between 2 systems requiring a license each. The owner doesn't matter all you need to have is 2 Hexos installations/servers therefor 2 licence in total and you are good to go for buddy backup.

So, Buddy Backup only works for different users? I bought 2 licenses a year ago to be able to do buddy backup with myself, so that's not possible? I would need to fall back to Replication Task over SSH ?

Hey, Buddy Backup isn't currently available and Hexos doesn't offer anything to do a backup to another machine. However if you login to Truenas go to Data Protection and there to the Replication Tasks. You can setup a new Replication task there following this guide: https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.04/scaletutorials/dataprotection/replication/ But this requires that you can connect to the other server, via tunnel or domain name or sth. Similar.

Hey, No this has been fixed months ago, with the Q1 update I believe.

Hey, It seams to be possible to use a GPU with multiple apps, but you need to login into truenas to do this: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/can-multiple-apps-utilize-the-same-gpu.99757/#post-712876

In addition to what M said, low idle power draw doesn't necessarily mean, low performance hardware, modern high performance HW also has amazing power savings potential & idle power draw, so you don't need to go low performance, or old HW. Some easy wins are disabling unused HW/parts in the BIOS (Audio, onboard NIC if a dedicated NIC is used, Wifi etc...)

+1 to get Snapshot, scrubs and data replication control in the deck 🙂

Hey, Not sure if your 170Z is a typo and should be an AMD 1700 CPU. If it is, there is a bug concerning AMD Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs which is causing exactly those random freezes. You have to disable all the C-states in the BIOS to stop this from happening. You could use something like uptime kuma to easily see if the server is still running or not, but you would need to install it on another server/pc and have it running there to get proper tracking.

What would be your intended use case for this? Opening the deck website, going to the apps section and clicking the launch button is not a way I imagine you would want to visit immich. 🙂 Sth like Heimdall would offer you this flexibility (and more) already.

Would be great if it would be like Truenas, you just export your config and during (or after) installation you just reload this config and it's all back and configured to how it was before. Maybe even give an advanced tab where you can select which categories/settings/apps you want to restore and which not. This backup could even be done automagically upon a settings change and keep a couple of versions, and be stored on one of the pools and Hexos might be looking for it during or after the setup and give you a choice of which version (automatic or manual backup and from which date/time) to use. Pool import is already working now, you don't have to create a new pool anymore during the setup, you import them afterwards.

This is not foreseen to be done in Truenas and therefor Hexos. Hexos is an appliance and you are not installing anything on the OS. The drivers are in the kernel and you cannot easily update them. Newer Versions might support your NIC in the future though.

Hey, Just something to consider a CPU with a TDP of 200W doesn't necessarily consume more then a CPU with 52W TDP when doing the same work. All it means is that it can consume more power during work (but therefore typically being faster than a lower TDP CPU of the same gen), but since the NAS is running at idle most of the time, due to advanced power saving features, there often is no or very little difference in idle power draw. Also, the Intel iGPUs (12th Gen Core i CPUS or newer) are very good at decoding/encoding for streaming with Jellyfin/Plex. If that's all you want to do, you cannot beat intel iGPUs, because a dedicated GPU adds additional (idle) power consumption. If however you want to do AI or Machine Learning things you do need a GPU with lots of VRAM, depending on what and how many things you what to run. You can also mix and match, take a dedicated GPU for the ML/AI things and the iGPU for streaming.

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