ubergeek

IMO I say go with what you can afford / what your build requires. the new hardware is not a bad way to go

@mill3000

So in my opinion if thats the hardware you have to build with, YES build it and when you have the chance to upgrade things upgrade them. The hardware is yes old but I know people still using core2duos to power their projects. Keep in mind that some thing you may want to do past the basic storage nas my be limited like Plex ect, due to the power they can sometimes require

I'm digging that case

Does power consumption matter? Amd I guess you are in the eu

So after some digging, poking and planning I have NAS 2.0. Unlike my first nas that was built off of pure storage round 2 is planned on the fact that I have found a better way for my use case to use hexos. So moving to a newer cpu platform will give me more horsepower down the road swapping from a i3 8350k to an i7 10700. Moving to storage I will have 3 128g ssd as pool 1 for all my apps and vms. Next to that is 4 12tb drives that will be the main pool for storage. Setting up the next 6 8tb drives will be my once a month storage point "the drives will be spun down when not in use". As far as my old setup it will be getting 15 8tb hdds and will be colocated for in case things happen at home storage.

What HBA / Raid / Perc card 8s in the server

yes you would need to either go back to the 192.168 subnet or Vlan for the hex os port to run as 192.168 and make the ACL's to connect back to the 10.10

I would take the new router and mirror the current /24 ip structure.

If you are in Windows use a network scanner like Angry IP scanner or NMAP/Zenmap to do a network scan . You should see the hostname that you setup the NAS to have ,use that IP and HTTPS://i.p. here and you should see the truenas screen. Also you can use this option from the HEXOS DECK view ::::: SEttings - truenas- popout window truenas button

So I cant speak on the uGreen HW but I can tell you that if you decide to find normal computer hardware plopping in the boot SSD and hard drives it will take off and run " NOTE depending on the network chipset you have" without any hitch. I am running the same SSD that I started HEXOS "since launch" and have tested about 12 different motherboard cpu combos and the only issue has been a network chipset that the underlying Linux os didnt like.,

So I have played with a lot of different hardware on my HexOs journey. For the time I have landed with using a i3 8350k 32gb of ram and running 16 drives. For your use case the storage is going to be your money pit. Without knowing where exactly where your needs are I could say make sure you bulk up there where as in RAM starting with 16gb will get you going but having more will help ZFS Cache.

You could do some Slow but useful AI stuff

Talk to @mill3000

Personally I wouldn't see that being a option due to the fact on how Hex is baked into the build of Truenas