PsychoWards

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.

So for Immich, every user has a dedicated login, which needs to be configured in Immich and is a different user from the one you created in Hexos. The one in Hexos is meant to access the folders only and cannot access any app. No other user ever needs to access the deck. How you connected to the folder depends on your OS, but SMB is used and you should find plenty of guides on how to setup it up for your specific OS. 🙂

What are you trying to do, the second user can get access to specified folders, but not the dashboard and shouldn't get access to the dashboard.

Hey, Idle consumption of the CPU is quite high, however if that's the only reason you are looking for another server, you can run your current server for a couple of years until those 1k$ would be payed off due to the lower idle power of another CPU. Hexos requires 1 dedicated drive just for the OS, you cannot install anything else on it and it is not usable in Hexos. A 16GB SSD is enough, everything higher is wasted capacity, so I would suggest to look for another smaller SSD as boot drive. Hexos is currently only working with at least 2 drives of the same type and size to create a pool. Pools consisting of 1 drive are currently not supported. So to use your current drives you need at least 1 other 2.5TB HDD and if you use both of you SSDs to create 1 Pool, it will only take the size of the lowest drive, 1TB in this case. Please make sure your current and all future HDDs are CMR and not SMR drives. If it's an SMR drive, please replace it beforehand, because you will have very slow write speeds (single digit MB/s) after writing a couple of GB. Also once a pool is created you cannot change it's ZFS type afterwards. Hexos currently supports mirror (2 drives) and RaidZ1 (at least 3 drives). You cannot expand a mirror pool, however you can expand a RaidZ1 pool. Therefor it is crucial that you decide now what you want as a ZFS type and get your drives accordingly. There is also no write cache if you plan on using one of the SSDs as a cache. You do need a GPU to install Hexos and afterwards you need it if you want to de/encode your media. Since you mentioned your beamer, you could use Plex or Jellyfin to stream your media to any device and thus you would profit from a GPU if you are not streaming in the native quality. You would also connect your projector to the network or a PC but not to the NAS directly, neither via ethernet (to difficult to setup) nor via HDMI (there is no video player in hexos). My recommendation would be to set it up with your current HW, use it and test it and see for yourself if it fullfils your needs.

It seems like the only solution would be to have the possibility to change from WYSIWYG to plain mode.

Thank you 🙂 You also have a nice couple of possibilities and future proofing options with your setup =D My Proxmox and Unraid Server are both in a 19''inch case. I plan to get a startech.com rack, but I still don't know what I need exactly, I want to have rails, but the rails I found are ludicrously expensive etc. So it's foreseen to get a rack but so far it's still in the planning stage. Why portainer? Because it was the only thing I knew back when I switched to it. But only half my stacks are managed by portainer, the other half are good old docker compose up -d containers. Portainer is so infuriating to use if you want to mount files and folders and you cannot use extension of compose files (immich HW acceleration and ML for example). So yes, I had a pretty bad time with portainer =D. I'll have a look at Dockge, definitely! Thanks for the tip 🙂

Would it be possible to keep the opening post editable in the show and tell subforum? This way, you can keep this post updated and users don't need to go through the topic to find all the changes or latest setup. Not sure if this is possible.

Hey @Mawson I have exactly the same issue. Are you using the Microsoft Swiftkey Keyboard? Or another 3rd party keyboard? If you do, can you try using the stock Samsung Keyboard to see if then you can working with mentions and smilies? Swiftkey is the issue for me, but I'm not going back to the Samsung keyboard just for this forum. 🙂

Oh true, I just saw replaceable DDR5 memory, but I didn't notice this was only for the S1 :s Ah yes, the famous, next, next, next, wait was there something important there? Nah probably not 😂 I'm also following the VM development in Truenas and if it turns out to be comparable to proxmox, I might run Hexos on bare metal, but so far, Proxmox is there to stay in my setup🙂 This datacenter manager is looking like an awesome tool, are you already using the alpha version of it? I went full consumer grad HW in my setup, you can find the details here, although I have installed some more apps in the meantime. 🙂 https://hub.hexos.com/topic/1850-psychos-little-homelab/

Can you not just upgrade the memory of the Lincstation N2? You could try if it works with the module from your DL30N. With the recent changes and improvements with Docker in Truenas you might not even need Proxmox in the future anymore and you could even run everything docker from Hexos/Truenas. If, however you also need VMs, Proxmox is still the way to go. Also Q35 instead of i440fx in combination with CPU type Host is supposed to give you the best performance 🙂

You don't have to worry, I'm running RaidZ2 as well and there are no issues so far. Hexos will even support more pool types in the not so distant future. The only thing which is breaking Hexos right now is single drive pools. If it's your only pool you only need to set the path for the apps again, there is a guide on how to do this in the forum.

Sounds like a great build =D are you only running Hexos in Proxmox? Also how did you setup your Hexos VM? Is it a Default Machine(i440fx) or a Q35 and are you using SeaBIOS or UEFI? 🙂