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For me it's a lot faster. The folders are loading in 2-3s were before it was 10s. I got a degraded pool and the health and pool status loads in 2s to unhealthy, where before it was a lot slower. So yes, I do notice a dramatic improvement for some of the parts.

Tailscale or Wireguard as a VPN are the safest options. If you want a public domain, so that you can access it from any device, you first need a public domain and a reverse proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager, Traefik, Caddy). However this is pretty much a security risk without hardening, so you likely want to use cloudflare, a good firewall (ditch your ISP router and go for OpnSense or OpenWRT) and MMO Fail2Ban like Crowdsec. There are still other ways to secure your network (VLAN, DMZ etc.). VPN is the quickest with little setup, domain is the more versatile with a loooooot more setup to do to not risk your data.

Hey, Yes you can use your old Synology NAS as the target for a backup, but you cannot install Hexos on it, it can only run the proprietary Synology OS on it. You still need a way to connect from your place to your parents house, this is in your case likely best done by setting up a VPN server (Wireguard or Tailscale) on your parents side. (either in the router or the NAS). Then you just need to setup a rsync task which is running periodically, you find a lot of guides out there on how to do this, for the time being you need to configure this in Truenas and not they Hexos dashboard. It's best to do the initial filling via the local network and only afterwards move the NAS to your parents place for the delta backups.

Hey, 1 license is for 1 single server. Your use case would be 2 servers and thus 2 licenses. (because each server needs it own OS to be installed) However buddy backup is not yet available, you can however already today realise this using different ways, which do require a bit of setup. (but still a 2nd Hexos license)

SFP+ to RJ45 are getting hooooot, they are using significantly more power compared to fibre optics.

10Gbps is gimmicky for most users around here. If you're not editing directly off the NAS or have a lot of users accessing it, there is very likely no need to get 10Gbps, 2.5 Gbps is more than enough. But it's still fun to watch those high numbers, so if it's worth doing (2.5), it's worth overdoing (10) 😂

Once, you do the initial backup to your new low cost, not yet existing, but already way more thought out that you like to admit , server via buddy backup or ZFS replication task, you will see and notice the full speed. After that, it's not gonna make a huge difference 😂 Also if you want a good GPU for AI or ML, used RTX3090 (non ti) can be bought for 600$/€ and likely delivery the best bang for buck. You're welcome 🙃

Ah, I see that makes a lot of sense. Better safe then sorry and in comparison it's only a minor investment. Upgrading the network to 10Gbps isn't cheap, I understand that you don't want to buy it yet, especially if you cannot profit from it yet. If you eventually upgrade, will you be going the RJ45 path or go for SFP+ ? I've not found many affordable RJ45 10Gbps switches or at least not with many 10Gbps ports, but found some really affordable 8port SFP+ 10Gbps switches. I got myself SFP+ switches and Intel X540 NICs and I'm just using SFP+ to RJ45 for the connection to the 2.5Gbps switch (which is full RJ45). You probably haven't thought about that yet I imagine 🙂

Seeing the drives and components, the 265k build title could also be understood as the price for the server. 😉 🙂 😛 So, did I understood correctly that you want to do a 3 drive mirror with the 980 Pros ? Why not do a Z1 instead ? You really want the double redundancy? 🙂

If you are adding an L2ARC, the general rule of thump is that it should be 10x your RAM. So. If you only have 16GB of RAM don't put a 1TB SSD as L2ARC, because the L2ARC also puts strain on your memory and putting to much of it hurts the system in the end. Also L2ARC and Metadata SSD might be redundant, if the metadata is stored in the L2ARC, there is no point in having the SSD and vis versa but this depends a lot on the hitrate of your ARC.

Hey, You cannot the change RaidZ type. If you want to change it from RaidZ1 to RaidZ2, you need to delete your existing pool and manually create a new RaidZ2 pool in the Truenas GUI. This will wipe all your data. However what you can do, is create a new RaidZ1 or RaidZ2 VDEV and expend your Pool this way, such that you have 2 VDEVs in 1 Pool.

Hey, I would (and am) using the 2nd slot for a redundant boot drive. There is no write cache in Hexos, so no way to increase write performance. There is a read only cache called L2ARC and as you mentioned you can offload some metadata to the drive: There is no "best use case", because it really depends on the own needs and what is the most important to you. You might not even notice the benefits of using an SSD to store metadata, or your primary boot SSD might never die. It's a matter of reading into the different options and make an education decision based on what's important for you and what isn't. 🙂

There are 2 relevant "versions". 1 is the Truenas Version, which can be updated manually over the truenas GUI or with the latest Hexos update via the deck and you can check the version in the Truenas GUI. The 2nd is Hexos itself, which is currently managed by the Dev Team and there is no manual user interaction necessary, the Dev Team is taking care of deploying updates to the Hexos Dashboard and there is always only 1 version active, always the latest Hexos version is automagically deployed. So for the time being you only need to take care of the Truenas Version and there is, for us endusers not really a Hexos Version.

It takes a long time to load (10-15s) but it's showing everything eventually. How long did you wait so far?

Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) or Traefik. Both of them can be secured with Crowdsec.

Hey, Will there be a dedicated feedback/suggestion thread? I'm currently on holiday so I can only check the dashboard on my mobile phone. My pools are shown correctly and thanks to the single drive pool support I can finally use the dashboard again =D There are however 2 things I noticed: In the activity center, where the notifications are shown, there was a button to mark everything as read. However after pressing it, the activity center is still showing that there are new messages, the mark all as read button doesn't seem to do anything. I now need to press the X on each message individually to get rid of the new messages. In the storage pool window, where you see the details of a storage pool, there is a blue exclamation mark symbol next to the extendable/not extendable text. This seems to show a text on mouse over, however mouse over isn't exactly working on a mobile phone. Not sure how many people are using a mobile phone with the deck, but this is something I noticed. That's all the rest I've checked is working perfect. =D

That's great to hear and thank you for the feedback. 🙂

You need to deactivate the C-States in the BIOS for Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs, because this is causing the crashes.

Can you please post the HW specs of your server?

Hey @freid What do you want to do with the cache drive? Please check this post from @Sonic for more information about cache in Hexos:

Hey, yes this is possible, someone already mentioned it in this forum however I don't have any details and it might not be as easily setup as Synology Drive Client. First of all, if it should be reachable over the Internet you either need to setup a VPN or a reversed proxy with a domain. This however is true for every service which you want to reach from the Internet and not limited to the drive replacement. But once you have this setup it's easily configured for Immich and your media player if needed. Immich is great, it's a free self hosted replacement for Google Photos. Concerning Buddy Backup it's foreseen to come this year, but you need a second (Hexos) server (and hexos licenses if you want to run it yourself) to backup to. But even without Buddy Backup, local backups to another Hexos/Truenas server is easily done using the replication tasks. You run do everything on the same server, this saves you the costs of having to run 2 servers and you only need to maintain 1 server. It's best to use Jellyfin or Plex (although Plex is alienating a lot of users recently which are switching to Jellyfin) on your server with an iGPU or dedicated GPU. As long as you have a decent GPU and not a lot of people streaming at the same time, performance impact is not an issue. Stay away from Realtek NICs (they are not supported and a lot of problems reported in this forum regarding connectivity or speed were solved by replacing the realtek NIC). If you need to get a new NIC, go for an Intel 2.5 or 10 Gbit/s NIC depending on your future network upgrade plans. Intel iGPUs are great for media streaming/transcoding and you don't need a dedicated GPU just for this. Immich does leverage a dedicated GPU for Machine Learning stuff but doesn't warrant a dedicated GPU just for this purpose. You need at least 2 data drives and 1 small boot drive. The boot drive can't be used for anything else then the OS so don't use a 1TB drive for this, a 16GB SSD is enough. With 2 data drives, Hexos is creating a mirrored pool which is not expandable in size, therefore you need to create a pool with at least 3 data drives to be able to expand in the future. Stay away from SMR drives (Desktop drives or WD RED (non plus, non pro)) make sure to only go for CMR drives. If you want to get new HW or reuse your existing server, you can post the components in here and you will get help to match the parts as best as possible and avoid certain pitfalls.

Could this be linked to reinstall vs reclaim? Those cases which I noticed which wiped the drives were all reinstalls of Hexos as in this case. Other cases w/o data loss were reclaims of an existing installation. I didn't look into every single case, but this was a pattern I noticed.

You can use something like Navidrome for Music Streaming, since you need a reverse proxy anyway this can be setup quite easily to be reachable over the Internet and is not behind a paywall.

Hey, Yes this should work fine. Just the obligatory warning that those SFP+ Modules with RJ45 are running hot and require a lot more energy compared to fibre optics. So make sure you have airflow/cooling on your switch.

Hey, Yes Realtek doesn't play nice with Hexos and WiFi is not supported at all. If you are looking for a PCIe NIC go with an Intel NIC, if you want to have 10Gbps, go with sth. Like an Intel X520 or X540 depending if you want SFP+(X520) or RJ45 (X540)