The main benefits I see are a better UI and web terminal, and the ability to manager multiple hosts from dockge (like if you run some workloads in a VM for example).

Hey

Yes sorry I mean dockge. I was just interested in if there was any benefit to using it over custom app but it sounds like its much the same

You mean dockge? My understanding is that dockge and similar solutions are just an alternative to TrueNAS's custom app interface, so it wouldn't really matter, other than dockge is probably easier to use.

Thanks for the response!

So no easy way really, that's a shame but I guess I'll deal with that once I can get some more drives...

I'll keep a second copy of any precious files on my computer and/or phone.

You can't change the vdev type/layout of a drive without wiping all data stored on it. The one exception is adding a drive to a RAIDZ1, which is allowed but has some annoying repurcussions. I'm not sure if the TrueNAS interface will let you create a vdev that is missing drives, but you probably can using zfs commands and I'd expect TrueNAS to accept it like any other vdev once mounted.

In any case, you should really have a separate backup which can serve as your second copy.

Cool

I jumped on the train and updated

Ok, pretty straight forward. Thank you

I just haven't heard the language before

It means you are updating to a the new version of Truenas Scale.