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Hi all, I've been troubleshooting this on and off for over two weeks and am at my wits end. I'm trying to turn an old laptop into a server with two 4TB hard drives. I've got two SATA to USB adapters (note: the adaptors each have a power plug which goes directly into a wall socket - so both drives are powered from the wall. i.e., they're not relying on USB power). No matter what I do, only one of the drives is detected. I've swapped the adapter cables around with each of the drives - each drive and each cable is fully functional. However, only one drive is ever detected in HEXOS or TrueNAS. I thought for some reason that the issue might be with the USB processing in the laptop, as the SATA to USB adapters were originally plugged into the standard USB ports in the laptop. So, today I got a type C adapter with two USB ports to put the SATAs into there. That doesn't work either. It also doesn't work if I only use one of the USB ports in the type C adapter, and one directly into the laptop. I've even tried plugging each HDD power plug into different outlets (and not on a switchboard together), which hasn't worked either. No matter what, either drive will detect on its own, but never both of them. The drive also doesn't seem to show up in TrueNAS either. Obviously without the second drive I can't even get started setting up a pool or anything else, so it's been quite a demoralising process for my first server. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be and how to fix it?

It would be nice to to speed test to accurately measure: Network Throughput to the NAS: This tests the raw network connection speed, isolating it from storage performance. We need a reliable way to determine if our network infrastructure is delivering the expected bandwidth. Storage Pool Performance: Benchmarking the combined performance of a pool is crucial including sequential and random read/write operations. Individual Drive Performance: Testing individual HDDs, SSDs, or NVMe drives. This is vital for diagnosing drive health and identifying potential bottlenecks

Inspired by @FallenHero234's post: Background: Had this as an idea for a while now - was lurking around for years, until I saw that LTT video. Got in at $99 sale. Though to myself "might as well get on with it" (SO works with videos, myself toy with DAW) and got myself a refurb P520 and a couple of those EXOS refurbs. Specs: CPU: Intel Xeon W-2223 GPU: Nvidia Quadro K4000 3GB RAM: 16GB DDR4 Storage: Boot Drive: 256GB M.2 SSD Data Drive: 2x refurb 18TB Seagate EXOS X20 HDD Experience so far: Got the part last Friday, waited till Sunday to add the HDDs to the P520, opened that video and the illustrated install guide and installed - everything was smooth and straightforward. Started with Immich - what an awesome experience; transferred a number of lesser albums, right now am learning Plex was next - took a minute to figure out how to point to correct library folders, but 30 mins of lurking got it sorted. Again, a smooth performance; After that installed Actual via the Truenas UI - basically, it went fine as well and seems so far to be smooth. I guess right now I'm sort of cautiously exploring - looking at CPU load, and slowly transferring data in small chunks to relevant folders. However, am thinking of: Moving my HomeAssistant (running on a VM in VirtualBox on an old Mac Mini I had laying around); Adding more drives (the current pool is not expandable, so will redo the setup to make an expandable pool once I get the third 18 TB HDD) as well as creating additional pools, got a bunch of 2.5 HDDs & SSDs laying around: Specifically went for P520 because can fit more 3.5 HDDs and still have room for smaller drives. Other than that - pretty happy I did this and no regrets (knock on wood, haha).

Gonna post here about any updates to try and document my new server and HexOS journey. Currently the setup goes like this: Server: Quanta 1U D51PC CPU's: 2 x Xeon E5-2630 V4 (10c/20t per CPU) RAM: 128GB DDR4 (8 x 16GB) PCIe Cards: LSI SAS3 MPT Controller Quanta 2-Port 1GbE Intel X350 2.0 NIC Boot Drive: 256GB NVMe SSD Storage: 8 x 1.2TB Seagate 10K SAS Drives. 7.93TB Usable Space Currently running 12 Docker Containers and 1 VM with more to come as i haven't ported everything over yet from my old Host. Snookered myself slightly as there is no room for expansion and not sure best practice for upgrading the drive as every bay is full. Transfer data to another host then upgrade? Any advise there? The only thing I want to add is a GPU for transcoding media however no free PCIe slots other than 4x so need to think on that one. Any thoughts or recommendations from anyone please feel free, I have another host running Proxmox so happy to tinker in the TrueNAS UI if it's worth it to make the experience/performance better.

Hello, I am a non english speaker soory Just for me or for everyone the info window for the app on th top right corner do not follow the screen when i scroll down. It is just staying up the page and when selecting an app i have to scrool all the way up. Is this normal ? https://deck.hexos.com/apps Firefox 133.0.3 64bits @+

Hey there, I got my Licens for the Beta now. But am i blind? Where do i find the Downloade button? pls help 😄

Can HexOS help me setup a bit miner that has some halfway decent enterprise server hardware and GPUs?