New Set Up, Nothing Fancy

[MKibner]

Hello, 

I had ordered HexOS a while back and just recently picked up the necessary hardware.  This is my first experience using a NAS and was especially interested in the potential of an off site storage if you have a friend with HexOS as well (and I do lol).   

After examining the carcass of my old PC I decided that I would probably want something newer to work and ended up buy a NAS from Terramaster instead of building my own as I like how compact it is and my old computer is on the older side.  So i got the following:

-> Terramaster F6-424; 6 Bay, N95 Quad-Core CPU, Dual 2.5GbE Ports
->  Crucial 32 GB DDR5, 4800 MHz
-> 2x Western Digital 500 GB NVMe's
-> 4x Seagate Ironwolf 4TB (for now)

The hardware was pretty easy to work with, there are several videos of people using/trying TrueNAS on a Terramaster.  The install and setup was easy, the Guide on here was more than enough to get someone set up and great to reference just to make sure everything went smoothly.  So far, the only thing that has given me any trouble is that I was getting odd restarts for apparently no reason, but I believe that was a compatibility issue with Terramaster that seems to have been fixed by some changes in the BIOS suggested elsewhere in this forum.  

Currently, my plans for this are limited to backing up my data and likely some kind of Media Server, but I may expand that as I learn more of what's out there and what I can or maybe should do.   

[Mobius]

Welcome 

Happy to see you were able to figure out how to solve your problem.

For media server i personally use jellyfin. 

pros

• its free
• less fluff

Cons compared to plex

• less clients available 
  • no playstation app
  • kinda annoying to get working on tizen (samsung tv)
  • best way to watch on apple tv is using a paid 3rd party app (its what i use and i love it)
• streaming videos outside of network is not as easy

[Sonic]

28 minutes ago, MKibner said:

Hello, 

I had ordered HexOS a while back and just recently picked up the necessary hardware.  This is my first experience using a NAS and was especially interested in the potential of an off site storage if you have a friend with HexOS as well (and I do lol).   

After examining the carcass of my old PC I decided that I would probably want something newer to work and ended up buy a NAS from Terramaster instead of building my own as I like how compact it is and my old computer is on the older side.  So i got the following:

-> Terramaster F6-424; 6 Bay, N95 Quad-Core CPU, Dual 2.5GbE Ports
->  Crucial 32 GB DDR5, 4800 MHz
-> 2x Western Digital 500 GB NVMe's
-> 4x Seagate Ironwolf 4TB (for now)

The hardware was pretty easy to work with, there are several videos of people using/trying TrueNAS on a Terramaster.  The install and setup was easy, the Guide on here was more than enough to get someone set up and great to reference just to make sure everything went smoothly.  So far, the only thing that has given me any trouble is that I was getting odd restarts for apparently no reason, but I believe that was a compatibility issue with Terramaster that seems to have been fixed by some changes in the BIOS suggested elsewhere in this forum.  

Currently, my plans for this are limited to backing up my data and likely some kind of Media Server, but I may expand that as I learn more of what's out there and what I can or maybe should do.   

Terramaster hardware is designed to be used as a 24/7 NAS. A solid setup to start using HexOs. 

welcome!

[MKibner]

37 minutes ago, Mobius said:

Welcome 

Happy to see you were able to figure out how to solve your problem.

For media server i personally use jellyfin. 

pros

• its free
• less fluff

Cons compared to plex

• less clients available 
  • no playstation app
  • kinda annoying to get working on tizen (samsung tv)
  • best way to watch on apple tv is using a paid 3rd party app (its what i use and i love it)
• streaming videos outside of network is not as easy

Thanks for the advice, I will keep that in mind