PsychoWards

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? 🙂

If you can still afford to wipe your drives, you can setup RaidZ2 in Truenas.

At this point I wouldn't bother, if it's running correctly and without issues, as long as you keep an eye on the drives you can use it as is without the need to use SW Raid and just rely on the HW Raid. If you decide to convert to SW Raid you need to wipe your drives. Truenas, the underlying OS currently supports 2 types of cache: this is L2ARC, which is an extension of ARC and ZIL/SLOG. The ARC is an in memory read buffer which stores files, which truenas thinks you might access next, in memory to be able to read them faster. The L2ARC is an extension where more files can be stored on an SSD to increase reading speed of those files. This is mostly useful if you have +10GBit/s networking and if you absolutely can profit from faster read speeds (video editing etc.) If however you mostly use your NAS as a backup or media player or have only 2.5Gbit/s or less, you likely don't need the L2ARC. It is a read only buffer. ZIL/SLOG is only useful for synchronous writes and not used with asynchronous writes. If you don't know what synchronous/asynchronous writes are you don't need SLOG 🙂 Hexos might support those 2 types (or just L2ARC) but it's not a write buffer and a normal write buffer is currently not foreseen to get in Truenas. I hope this was understandable 🙂

Oh wow, this is quite the setup! If you don't want to connect your boot drives to your MoBo then I don't think there is a way to passthrough the controller and still have proxmox running, but that's not needed for your setup, you are fine with your HW-Raid. Your SSD cache, is that going to be used in Hexos/Truenas? If so, the cache is probable not doing what you think it does, it is a read cache only not a write cache. If it's used for something else, disregard this 🙂

Can you give us a bit more details about your HW Raid and boot drive? Are all your drives part of the HW Raid, your proxmox is running on the HW RAID and you are passing the unused space as a virtual drive to Hexos? Or do you have a dedicated boot drive which is connected to the raid controller but not part of the HW RAID?

Hey, Unfortunately Hexos/Truenas only supports ZFS you cannot not use it. I understand the constraints and is a said, single drive pool support in Hexos will come, until then you unfortunately will have to wait. =/

Hello, Yes single disk pools will be supported in a future update. However, according to the official ZFS documentation you should not use HW Raid in combination with ZFS: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance and Tuning/Hardware.html#hardware-raid-controllers When using something like Proxmox, you can pass the SATA controller directly to the VM to allow full control over the drives and the best possible SW Raid.

I don't know if anyone else in the Hexos community is using M-Disc as a way of backing up data (I had to Google M-Disc, genuinely didn't know what it was). People commonly use one of following 3 things: 1. Backup to another NAS (might be another Hexos, Truenas, Unraid, Synology, QNAP etc...) Hexos will offer buddy backup to another Hexos server in the future however no details are known so far. 2. Backup into a cloud. (you can encrypt the data before uploading if privacy is a concern) 3. Backup onto an external drive (USB HDD or SSD), this however is currently breaking Hexos. You can also use a combination of any of those. The big advantage of doing this, is you can program it to be done automatically, you can choose the frequency, you can have versioning of files which is great if you overwrote a file and want to restore a previous version etc. It certainly does add additional costs compared to M-Disc but you don't need to do anything manually and you got backups of way more data and way more often compared to doing it manually. And your second server doesn't need to be as powerful and therefore expensive as your main server.

Hey, 1. You can just use Immich, it is a one click install app in Hexos and it will take care of your photo management. It basically works like google photo, but it's running locally on your server, you can create multiple users and share folders, there is an app which is automatically backing up all your pictures from your smartphone, it takes care of everything for you. 2. Truenas, the underlying system supports a lot of apps, from game servers to surveillance apps, so Hexos will be able to run those things as well. In the recent Roadmap it was announced that community templates for apps will come, meaning the number of one click install apps will likely sky rocket with this feature and most commonly used apps will likely rather quickly get a template. Out of the box, Hexos is only usable in the internal network, as is every NAS software, but you can setup a VPN, or Tailscale or a reverse proxy with a domain to make the required services reachable over the Internet. You can even create a VM in Truenas to run Home Assistant OS if this is system which you are interested in. So yes, Hexos can do everything you want, but it's still in beta and some features are currently only accessible via truenas. If you decide to go with Hexos here are a couple of tips: - the boot drive can only be used as a boot drive and you cannot store any data on it, meaning there is no point of buying a 1 TB SSD. - Once you decided for your ZFS pool type (mirrored with 2 disks) RaidZ1 (with 3 or more disks) you cannot change it afterwards and are stuck with this ZFS type, thus plan accordingly. You can also use RaidZ2 (2 drive redundancy) but you need to create the pool in Truenas.

I have to thank Synology for their current line-up, since without them I wouldn't be here. I have an old DS412+ which I was looking to replace a couple of months ago with a new Synology model. However their line up was so bad, that I decided to go down the custom NAS route, which eventually made me end up here. And I do know from other people which are now looking for alternatives because Synology just doesn't offer what they want. So, yes I agree, it's definitely not an exciting refresh and some people might be disappointed, just as I was and switch to another solution, maybe this makes someone else switch to Hexos. I do think that it's an exciting time for NAS in general and this line up only helps to push some people over the edge and start looking for alternatives.

You cannot install Hexos on any Synology NAS, it's locked down and does not support installing 3th party OS, you can only use the Synology own DSM with it. You might find some guides, but it's pretty janky and really not worth the hassle, if you want to use Hexos you need to look for another device.

Also Noctua stats that the CPU cooler should only be used with care on CPUs with more then 65W, your CPU has 95W: https://noctua.at/en/nh_l9i_tdp_guidelines

Hey, A NAS is a Network Attached Storage, so the goal of it is to have it connected to the network and not just a single device else it would use an USB connection or sth. Similar. 🙂 You can connect your PC directly to the server, but that is not the intended use case and requires some setup. The Internet connection also does not play a role in this case, the only important thing is the internal network and as long as you have a cable connection, the internal network should be fast enough. The recommended way in your use case is to connect your NAS and PC to the network instead of each other directly. If you have multiple ethernet ports in your wall outlet you can connect both devices separately, if you have only 1 port, you can add a switch, and then connect both PC and NAS to this switch. This way, every device on the local network (PCs, Smartphones, TVs, TV Media Player etc.) can access the NAS for backups and reading/streaming.

I just had a brief look, but this looks to be very interesting, both the article and the tool. This will definitely help with understanding ZFS better! Thanks for posting it.

First of all it seems to be a very thought out setup which will be a good inspiration for the community in general. But you are running Proxmox (so do I) and a Proxmox Backup server (which I also wanted to have a look at), you have some scripts running, Uptime Kuma will be one of the apps which I will now also install and in general seems like there's a lot to learn. Also you have a Rack. I want a Rack as well.