#Old NAS (SCALE, works) vs. New NAS (iLO, HexOS) vs. Custom System (Larger drives)

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astral venture
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Fellas, looking for a bit of a consult, I'm a bit stuck.
I have an old HP Microserver that's my current NAS; it's running an older version of SCALE (from before they started ripping out useful features like SMART) and I want to upgrade it to HexOS. As part of this I picked up a deal on a newer microserver G8 with iLO and all the best upgrades from an enthusiast, but I have had a HELL of a time getting RAID with either the HBA card or the b120i to play ball, and even when it does, for HexOS's installer to boot and see the OS disk. Enter option 3 - as far as I can tell, the Microserver G8 maxes out at 4 TB drives, which is what I have, but i'm at capacity, and if I'm going to upgrade, now's the time. I've found some solid 14TB drives second-hand online but if I can't run them in the G8, what's the point - so, do I forego the benefit of the iLO and just use a custom system (I have a spare old board and GPU, I could make something work) and at least get the benefit of capacity (even though I was excited to get an iLO, since my old NAS would lock up on it's own and need a power cycle to restore)?

Thanks, everyone.

coral pike
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I would look into a custom server utilizing an older enterprise board

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Something on the LGA2011-3 socket would be good

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Find something with remote managment like IDRAC or IPMI, and you're golden

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I've used a Supermicro X9 board (albeit just lga 2011) and it works great

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I'm also currently using a dell R630 with 24 1.2tb drives and it's amazing

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Honestly given your experience with truenas SCALE, you'd likely be fine just using Truenas core, the community edition

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HexOS is basically just a skin of truenas core, that allows for ease of use for uninformed users, but in your case you seem to be a very knowledgeable user

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@astral venture

astral venture
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My CORE isn't up to date but it also locks up at random and I'm not happy with it

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I already own a HexOS license so the planned move to Hex/SCALE is more or less cemented in at this point, it's just how - everywhere a roadblock!

astral venture