Do I need 2 drives?

[agame7]

2 hours ago, goaharis said:

Damn it, I also did not read the requirement for 2x drives before purchasing the hexos license. My pocket NAS only accept M.2 and with one spare 2tb installed meaning I now need another M.2 with 2TB capacity which are not cheap. I will only be using this as low power always on plex server and so I don't care about redundancy etc. I can rip the movies back on if the drive fails.

you can make a stripe pool in the Truenas Ui using Plex with that pool

[UncleMikey]

5 hours ago, goaharis said:

Damn it, I also did not read the requirement for 2x drives before purchasing the hexos license. My pocket NAS only accept M.2 and with one spare 2tb installed meaning I now need another M.2 with 2TB capacity which are not cheap. I will only be using this as low power always on plex server and so I don't care about redundancy etc. I can rip the movies back on if the drive fails.

For your use case setting up a pool on truenas shouldn't be too difficult (using just one drive) then plex should install just fine. and you could manage it using hexos...

[UncleMikey]

3 hours ago, agame7 said:

you can make a stripe pool in the Truenas Ui using Plex with that pool

beat me to it lol didn't see your response

 

[goaharis]

It's what I did, set the stripe pool via TrueNas, thanks. Turns out I didn't even need the hexos. My single drive stripe pool is not even recognised in hexos, had to install plex via truenas as well. Also installed a file browser and a couple of other apps with minimal effort apart from Minecraft bedrock server which is not natively available only the java version is available. The bedrock required some work and learning curve to install as custom app. So I didn't get to test the hexos, how much simpler it would have been to set up my specific environment via hexos but I was also surprised how not rocket science is the truenas scale and how good is it's UI. I didn't even need a single command line or stuff like that. Setting up pools, data sets and user rights via truenas was the most demanding and required some digging online as I had no prior experience with custom nas before, I only ever had the asustor nas. Anyways, i wish I had experimented with truenas scale before purchasing the hexos license. I am sure it will be useful to many non geeky users but in my experience truenas scale alone is close enough.

[Manderis]

Edit: redundant, I missed the second page of this topic. Ups. I leave it here anyways. 

You can go to TrueNAS and crate a vdev with just one drive. Did this as a intermediate solution for playing around before my HDD's get shipped. Ad I never used TrueNAS I just went to storage, create vdev as mirror (don't know why with just one drive), select my one drive, ignored all the individual settings and pressed continue a bunch. 

 

Gets detected in hexos no problem and works fine. Just with the warning because the storage is degraded (I think it is expecting some kind of redundancy). 

Edited December 12, 2024 by Manderis

[ViPeR9503]

On 12/13/2024 at 3:02 AM, Manderis said:

Edit: redundant, I missed the second page of this topic. Ups. I leave it here anyways. 

You can go to TrueNAS and crate a vdev with just one drive. Did this as a intermediate solution for playing around before my HDD's get shipped. Ad I never used TrueNAS I just went to storage, create vdev as mirror (don't know why with just one drive), select my one drive, ignored all the individual settings and pressed continue a bunch. 

 

Gets detected in hexos no problem and works fine. Just with the warning because the storage is degraded (I think it is expecting some kind of redundancy). 

How did you set vdev as mirror? I am in TrueNAS and it does not let me set 1 single drive in a mirror (cant set width and no. of vdev). I can set it as a stripe but then it is not recognized by HexOS.

[Manderis]

12 hours ago, ViPeR9503 said:

How did you set vdev as mirror? I am in TrueNAS and it does not let me set 1 single drive in a mirror (cant set width and no. of vdev). I can set it as a stripe but then it is not recognized by HexOS.

Maybe I just derped. I have no prior experience with TrueNAS and had 2 Sata drives installed, 1 x 500 GB, 1x 1 TB. I tried to set a mirror with these two drives at 500 GB but somehow ended up with just the 500 GB drive in the vdev and the 1 TB drive was not included and still available. From then on HexOS recognize the mirror vdev and complained about a drive missing. 

I might need to say that I am particularly good at breaking software, which was a real pain for my previous employer. 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Manderis
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