PsychoWards

Ever since this WD Red, meant for NAS, are SMR drives BS from WD, (and a bad support experience after a brand new drive died after 1 day) I've avoided them when there was an alternative, being it SSDs or HDDs. Nonetheless, very interesting video, to see what the differences really mean.

Hey, 1 account can have multiple licenses. If you want to be your own buddy backup you can buy a second license with your account, if you have a buddy who wants to be your backup buddy, that person can make an own account and buy it's own licence. However you cannot transfer a licence from one account to another account. I hope this was understandable

Just my 2 cents, but for me buddy backup is more important, since I have 2 Hexos servers and I can be my very own buddy and I'm not planning on every using a cloud service as storage (smartphone stuff doesn't count, you don't really have much of a choice there 😉 ) Additional Buddy Backup was one of the promoted features and there have been quite a few people asking about it since the initial release of the beta. Cloud backup on the other hand was not really promoted and as @Todd Miller mentioned there were far less requests for it so far. Therefore likely why they prioritised Buddy Backup over cloud storage. So from a commercial point of view Buddy Backup is a stronger selling point that sets Hexos appart from other NAS solutions. I'm not saying that cloud storage support should not be done, but at least this (forum) part of the community is currently more interested in buddy backup.

Likely unpopular opinion, but thank you!

Hey, yes unfortunately this seems to be normal for BX APC UPS. Those UPS are not the best ones and the driver does not work very well with them. The problem seems to be that the USB part of the UPS keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every couple of seconds leading to this messages. It's a known problem. My advice would be, if you can still return it, do so and try looking for an Eaton UPS or similar. https://forums.truenas.com/t/back-ups-bx1600m-false-battery-replacement-alerts/50688

Look into Jellyfin as a completely free alternative to plex (which has a subscription model for certain things) and none of your GPUs are supported by Hexos. With Truenas Version 25.10 currently only GTX16 Series or newer (RTX Series) are supported, supported for everything up to GTX10 Series was dropped. Also make sure your motherboard doesn't have a Realtek NIC, if it does, it's possible and highly likely that it's not supported. In that case you need to get another NIC, preferably Intel.

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 🙂