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Hey, this is only true for your specific CPU & MoBo combi but not as a general statement. According to your MoBo Manual, once you use 2 PCIe slots the bandwidth from the first slot drops from x16 to x8. And I suppose the ASUS card is using 4 PCIe lanes per SSD therefor with 8 lines you can only use 2 SSDs. However if the first PCIe slot drops to x8 depends on the CPU generation and chipset, lots of the newer boards don't have this issue, Server Motherboards usually have more PCIe lanes then you will ever need and even some older platform don't have this problem neither. So yes in your case it is unfortunately not possible to use the full 4 SSDs from the card in combination with a HBA card (due to HW limitations) , but for other setups this might not be a problem.

That is a very valid question. Doable without reverse proxy ? Probably with some tinkering and changing Truenas GUI ports. Should you do it? Definitely not.

Your best bet when using Hexos will be something like Nextcloud. This would be my recommendation but have a look at it. Also, depending on how many people are trying to download or stream the audio file, make sure your upload speed is fast enough to handle the requests, less likely to be an issue with audio files but very much an issue with video files.

Hey, Yes this is possible, but requires some setup. You have to manually install Vaultwarden, there is no 1 click app, and then you also have to install a reverse proxy (again no 1 click app) which is redirecting the concerned traffic to your Vaultwarden server. This does require that your subdomain is already (and always will) point to your router/proxy manager. This is not a trivial setup but it's not impossible neither and there are many guides to get this running properly and you should also read into cloudflare, fail2ban or crowdsec and other security options to protect your then exposed server/setup.

I did this test as well, w/o splitter with USB-C PD the JetKVM turns on, with the splitter it doesn't.

Hey I did double check this, it's correctly connected to the correct plug. But you also have the same splitter as the YT reviewers, mine's different and I am now convinced that indeed the splitter is the issue.

USB-A is working because it's always delivering 5V 500mA (or 900mA for USB3.0) without needing to negotiate. And my PSUs seem to all require USB-C PD negotiation which my included splitter doesn't seem to support. But none of the reviewers mentioned it and their splitters also has a different colour, there might be different splitters included in the package and some might support negotiation or their PSU doesn't require PD negotiation, there are a few possibilities on why it might be working for others. 🙂

I just tried different cables and PSUs and the splitter is not working with anything which requires the mandatory USB-C power delivery negotiation. It's working correctly when directly connected the the JetKVM however with the splitter it's no longer working... So USB-A PSU it is in my case.

No I did not, I will try this tomorrow. Yes, latest update is installed, but I'm on the stable channel

I tried 2 different power supplies and a power bank using the included usb c splitter, none of them worked 😞

What absolutely annoys me the most is that it needs an USB-A to USB-C cable, USB-C to USB-C is not working for power delivery. 🤦‍♂️🤬

I got mine yesterday, tested them quickly and they are working. Now I only need to wait for retail to order the Power On/Off accessory

And keep us posted 🙂

First of all, yes it's possible to connect both PC and Server via Ethernet cable but you have to setup everything yourself (static IP address) and share your Internet from another NIC or WiFi to your server. However, University Networks tend to be very restrictive, I'm not sure that the Hexos Dashboard will detect the server and you might not be able to use Hexos but only the Truenas GUI. I am also uncertain if you are allowed to hook up a server to their network or if you want to do this, because depending on how you configure it, everyone on the network might be able to reach it.

I think I would use 1 VM for all dockers, especially since you are a bit limited with the memory. I don't see a big advantage of splitting it in your case. Maybe you could split it in a system critical VM (running Opnsense, PiHole, Unbound, NPM etc.) and a 2. One running apps which you can play with and where there is no real impact to the network if it goes down?

I only did a late pledge after you posted about it in here, but I already had an email to confirm my address before shipment, which I didn't saw because it was in the spam folder. Should arrive in a couple of days, now I need to wait for them to finally sell it publicly, because I really really want this power on/off addon 🙂

Just to be save, mark down which drive is connected to which adapter, since Hexos is identify the adapter and not the drive behind it, it could lead to problems when you switch the drives and adapters around.

Hey, Yes Hexos is a great OS for your purposes, although setting up game servers is generally a bit more challenging. Data Backup? That's it's main purpose anyway Plex? Is a 1 click install app in Hexos Minecraft server? You can check this guide: (or look for another Truenas guide if this guide doesn't offer what you want) Conan Exiles? I found this, but you have to do a bit of digging on how to use it: https://truecharts.org/charts/stable/conanexiles/ So all in all the game servers are currently a bit more challenging to do (as they are with most (NAS) OS) but with one click community apps coming this year, this will hopefully get a lot easier. Just be aware that Hexos is still in beta and for some functionalities you currently still need to go into the Truenas GUI. One last thing, your boot drive will only be a boot drive, you cannot store any data on it, meaning your 1 TB m.2 SSD will go to waste, a small (at least 16GB SSD) is all you need, you can then use the 1 TB SSD elsewhere.

Not necessarily, a drive can also die without showing any signs in SMART tests and Hexos/Truenas does check the passiv SMART values and does monitor and detect possible drive failures. But SMART self tests go a step further and actively scans the disk surface and internals for issues not detectable without SMART test. While SMART self tests are strongly recommended, it is not like there would be no monitoring without it.

Lucky you, mines are still not send 😞 How do you like it so far?

Hello, No, currently you have to schedule the jobs in truenas, Hexos is not running them.

I 100% perfectly understand your concerns about price and it is 100% a valid point. Let's just explain my thought process: Over 14 years ago (damn time moves fast =/) I was told multiple times that you should never buy the same drive from the same source, because if you do, you are likely getting drives from the same batch and if this batch is faulty or has a higher failure rate, all your drives are concerned or if nothing is wrong with the batch at least they tend to die at a similar time. If you now have a drive dying on you, you have to rebuild a RaidZ with 18TB drives, which takes a long time and is quite stress intensive for the remaining drives. If another drive is on the edge, the rebuild might kick it over and it might die on you during the rebuild, losing all your data with Z1. With Z2, it would be annoying as hell, but you would not lose your RaidZ2. Now a couple of things to consider: If you suspect a drive to go bad before it dies, you can replace it beforehand and spare all the drama. Also since you have your second NAS, you could just say f*ck it, you have everything important on your BuddyBackup/ZFS Replication on your other NAS, you don't mind if you lose your pool, If you now say that my scenario is unlikely and only has a rate of 0,005% to happen, that's 1:20000, meaning one poor fellow in this forum will have this happen to them. So yes it is unlikely that it's you, but possible to hit at least 1 person here. So, with your setup both ZRaid types are vaild, if you have price concerns go with Z1 🙂

RaidZ2, or do you really need those 54TB? If the 36TB are enough then go Z2 🙂

I agree with @ubergeek Since your AMD version has more storage and more power anyway, it should be your primary NAS and your n100 your backup, else you just have wasted storage on your backup which will never be used and you possibly faster run out of cpu power depending on how crazy you want to go with apps.

Hey, Are both SATA to USB adapters the same model from the same company? If yes, this could be the issue, since most USB devices are not properly providing the serial number of the drive but are using a generic one, which is the same for each model/company, but Hexos/Truenas relies on each drive having a different serial number. That's also the reason why most USB multi drive cases are not working.