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Hi everyone! I'm excited to join the Beta program with HexOS and build my first NAS which I plan to use for basic file storage and maybe computer backups down the road. Currently I have 12TB of storage hosted as a network drive on a always on micro PC and my goal is to replace that with this setup. To do that I'm planning on using: Dell OptiPlex 3050 SFF Intel Core i5-7500 | 8GB DDR4 RAM M.2 128GB drive for OS SATA 1 : SEAGATE TERASCALE HDD 4TB ST4000NC001 5900 RPM 64MB 3.5" SATA 6GB/S SATA 2: Identical 4TB drive as above PCIE SATA Expansion card: 10 Port PCIE Expansion Card PCIe SATA 3.0 Controller Adapter 6Gbps for Desktop In that Expansion card, 3 more of the same 4TB drives I know they are slower drives, I'm not super concerned with the performance, so that's fine with me. My biggest concern is power. There are no other power leads coming out of the power supply. I'm guessing I can't just get a SATA power splitter cable to power the 5 drives off the power supply technically made for SATA 1? Is there anything else about this setup I should be concerned about? With 5 4TB drives would my storage then be 16TB? (Max - 1 drive) with 1 drive failure without data loss? Thanks everyone!

I checked the minimum requirements, is there a recommended spec? Plan on using this for photo & video backup from family phones. Might look at Plex in the future. I want to build something that can be expandable storage-wise if needed. Have access to lots of 4TB HDDs so plan on 4x 4TBs in the system just not sure what sort of CPU and motherboard to go for. Any suggestions are welcome 🙂

My wife and I live in the big city, and my folks (+2 of my siblings) live about 400 miles away. We all need a backup solution, so I'm building a pair of servers that will work as a team to give my whole family a solid data integrity plan, plus possibly some media and game server hosting and such. Overview: One server at each location. Servers will accept backups, files, etc from users devices Each local server will send copies of the local users' backups to the server in the alternate location. Each server may also be able to act as a media server as well, resources depending The Hardware: "Rincewind" - My local server Random-butt rack case from back when George W. Was in office. SilverStone 3x 5.25" ODD to 5x 3.5" HDD cage (SST-FS305-12G) 120 GB Kingston boot SSD 5x random 2TB HDDs (These need replaced before full deployment. Need at least 24TB usable to match the other server) Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X9scm-f LGA1155 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1240 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz un-buffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) "TheLibrarian" - Remote server at the parent's house. Used Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 (iirc) 8x random 4TB HDDs that came with the case Crucial boot SSD Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA Supermicro X10SSL-F LGA1150 server motherboard with IPMI Xeon E3-1246 v3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz unbuffered ECC RAM (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment) Status and Next Steps: Add SSDs for cache once feature is available Upgrade both servers to 23GB of ram Continue to test HexOS config before dployment Wait for Buddy Backup feature to be available for testing. Continue playing with plex, immich, etc. Find a dead nuts simple incremental backup solution for Windows Deploy Servers and set up local machine backups If anyone has any suggestions for windows backup software I would love to hear them! Attached photos show my current tech cave/homelab setup