If you’re running CORE, there’s nothing at all odd about that. The upgrade path to SCALE is to do a fresh installation of it and then upload your saved config file.
Considering you didn’t specify if you’re going L2ARC or metadata vdev, etc. it unlikely that you need a cache - performance will likely degraded. Consider what kind of cache you need & only implement if you have a real use case & understand the possible pitfalls. Worthless at best otherwise, or likely detrimental, or even at worst higher chance of losing all data on a pool.
Don’t use any kind of hardware or built in raid when dealing with zfs - zfs needs full access to your drives. I’m certain you meant raidz1/2/3, but never hurts to repeat on the forums.
I wouldn’t waste nvme for a boot drive - if you got a spare sata slot toss your cheapest reputable sata ssd for the boot & just make config backups occasionally.
I’d consider a [edit] MIRROR [edit] for apps & vms for NVMe for some redundancy. What to do with the third nvme if you’re dead set on it? Donno.
im running the os on usb stick that’s why, and i have more nas drives on the way so i need the sata ports i have 5 pcie lanes that are currently empty so
that why im trying to set up 3 drive ssd pcie card that way i have 1 boot , 1 second / boot ,1 apps since cache might be a bad idea since is more for plex
So edit the em0
for some odd reason, I can’t access truenass with just HOMELAB.local (Access dashboard and stuff)
not actual name, but I can only access it with the static IP I set for it
my set up is now : 1 usb , 4 nas drives , one nvme drives for apps (curently taking one of my sata ports since the board turns of a sata port if i use a nvme slot)