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Then @jonathanpublic there is your answer if you are considering this production. I don't care about Synology. I care that my NAS disconnects at least once a week. I care that when it reconnects the dashboard loses sight of what apps I have, as seen below, though I have 15 active or in testing. I care that I just spent a week replacing hard drives when I lost power and the NAS rebooted instead of shutting down and I have reported to support a couple weeks ago. I care that I have had three pc repair folks have told me it's probable a TrueNAS problem because Windows, and 6 Linux distros, all shutdown as expected. I care that someone asked a business question knowing that they will not get the kind of support a production environment deserves. @jonp I say that if this is one of your ongoing financial opportunities, you are probably going to have some tough days ahead but it is seriously needed. But right now nobody can call this anything but a great idea in a space that really needed great ideas. Don't outkick your coverage until you fill in some gaps or make some relationships to fill gaps not in your best interest. @jonathanpublic, all I have said here is null and void if you want to become a TrueNAS expert and are up for the challenge of becoming IT support as well.

Esthek cannot guarantee any uptime, because the server is running locally not in a cloud? Esthek has already made bug reports in the past to TrueNAS which have subsequently been fixed. Also your remark is exactly the same for Synology, but you didn't mention that...

Reach out to Eshtek directly because you don't need opinions. You need uptime guarantees, not opinions. And you need to establish who is supporting what? TrueNAS issues may be hard to get support for so in effect, you are support.

TrueNAS was initially developed for big enterprise companies and later retrofitted to be also suitable for other groups as well. So, yes the system is more then suitable for business as well, the importance here is more the HW then the OS, to be able to handle the writes/reads for the amount of users. And HexOS is just building on top of this already rock solid OS and makes it easier to setup and manage and backup. And since you still have TrueNAS underneath, you have the flexibility to do what you want in TrueNAS if you would require some more advanced features not yet available in HexOS. Also Synology NAS are only working correctly nowadays with Synology drives which are just rebanded drives with a +10% pricetag

Hey guys, I understand that HexOS is targeting homelabs mostly. But I wonder how well it would work for a small enterprise use case. Is a default installation of HexOS/TrueNAS secure enough to be used in an office with 15-20 employees without having to put in major effort hardening TrueNAS underneath? For context we're growing out of a 4 bay Synology NAS. I'm debating between buying another Synology NAS with better networking (10gbe networking), or building a custom server and using HexOS/TrueNAS for the OS. Is there any reason why HexOS would be a bad choice for an OS on a custom built file server for a business? The reason why HexOS is attractive is because I have a lot of experience with hardware and building my own PC's but I don't want to have to micromanage the software. But it would still be nice to be able to get into the weeds on the TrueNAS layer should the need arise. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. FYI, I'm already a customer. I use HexOS on my home media server. So I know it's a good product. Planning on buying another license for buddy backup when it's available.

Hello all, im curious if anyone has installed HexOS on a Minisforum N5? Any issues? I'm leaning toward this as my first "official" NAS when I finally get back into the states. -- Orion

Hello, I can confirm your issue and that it's only part of the current setup wizard. We have a new setup wizard that is all reimagined and doesn't have this issue in it. We should release that in the next few updates.

i see what you mean i will be passing on the feedback to the team

The language in the "setup storage" flow when needing approval to wipe the designated drives is not straightforward: "I confirm that any existing data on your drives will be permanently deleted in this process." Who is confirming data is wiped from whose drives? better perhaps: "I confirm that any existing data on the selected drives will be permanently deleted in this process." /M

Within the dashboard, each curated app has a Reset App Curation button, which presumably restores aspects of the app configuration—such as the app folder location, permissions, and other curated settings—to their expected values. This is a useful feature, but it would be even more valuable to have a Verify App Curation function. Alternatively, the system could periodically verify the configuration and only display Reset App Curation when it detects that the current configuration differs from the curated configuration. The main use case for me is that I have several apps that were deployed before they became curated. I would like to be able to see exactly what differs between my current configuration and the curated configuration. Ideally, the verification would provide a summary of the differences, allowing users to: See which settings or files differ from the curated configuration. Preview what would be changed by Reset App Curation. Determine whether the differences are intentional or simply remnants of an older deployment. Manually make changes where appropriate to bring an existing deployment into alignment with the curated configuration, without necessarily having to reset the entire curation. For example, rather than simply being told that an app's curation is out of sync, it would be helpful to see something along the lines of: App curation differs from the current configuration App directory: differs Directory ownership: differs Directory permissions: matches Configuration file: matches Required datasets: differs Reset App Curation would make the following changes: ... This would make the existing Reset App Curation functionality much more transparent and useful, particularly for users who deployed apps before they were curated and want to understand what has changed without blindly resetting their existing configuration.

Hello, I'm finally getting around to taking apart my old PC and turning it into a server. Specs: i7-9700K, 32GB RAM, Z390 AORUS MASTER, RSV-L4500U. I want to put two M.2 SSDs as my OS drives with redundancy. Having two disables some of my 6 SATA connections, so I'm in need of some SATA expansion. I don't know a whole lot about them, but it seems a lot of people recommend the Broadcom 9--- HBA cards. Id have though Id just get some SATA expansion cards, but these HBA cards seem to be more recommended from what I gather. Through my reading the LSI 9305-16i and the LSI 9400-16i are what I'm looking for. I found a LSI 9400-16i on ebay for 108$ that comes from China. I guess I'm wondering if these are generally real or of they are fake/knockoff and if its any good. What do you guys use? Any advice or recommendation is much appreciated! Thank you.

At this time I'm not aware of any plans to do that but the scope of HexOS is constantly expanding

Are there any plans to build an app like Synology's Active Backup for Microsoft 365 that would be a game changer for me.

Please keep it up, the request curation button can take a punch or a hundred Thats a great idea and it's been forwarded to the dev team

Okay, so I see in the latest (sept. 23 2026) blogpost that buddy backups and VM are both arriving this black friday. It's like we're getting what was supposed to be HexOS 1.1 and 1.2 in one big update, and that's really cool. So, the logical question should be...what's next? I'm really looking forward to ZFS AnyRAID, but that's somewhat out of HexOS' hands. Next thing I'd like to see is an automated backup and restore of HexOS itself. I believe backup and restore of truenas is as simple as exporting and importing a config file. Make that export (to a USB thumbdrive or email?) automatic. Maybe it's too simple to be called a headline feature of 1.3? What about HexOS' own dropbox-like solution? With desktop clients and possibly mobile apps... Anyways, whatever you guys have planned, I'm sure it's gonna be awesome. Thanks

Hi Mobius. The request curation button is awesome. I abuse the hell out of it. If it also added it to a "requested" section or something on the app page that would work just as well.

I see where you are coming from i'll pass on the feedback to the team

when you click the install button for uncurated apps it gives you the option to request curation. But yes you are right it should be made more obvious

Hi team, With how fast app curation is taking place, I was wondering if it would be possible to add a favorite button to apps that are not yet curated. Would be helpful to have an easy way to record apps that I am waiting for. Thank you. 🙂

Ok got it than you. Good to know that Hexos dose this in the background for us noobs.

Hey, you don't need to install or user neither docker nor dockage/portainer etc. HexOS takes care of everything for you. All you need to do, is login the HexOS Dashboard, go to curated Apps and install all the apps you want and need and HexOS is taking care off everything. No docker compose files, not folder mapping, no db user/PW to take care off, just super simple one click install apps. Under the hood HexOS is configuring and running those apps in docker, but you absolutely don't need to worry about this yourself. Just give it a try and install the apps and please report back how it went :)

Novice here. =/ This is my 2nd try at properly setting up my server. The first time i was having issues so I upgraded my hdd hardware to a Terramaster D6-320 and better truespec usb cable. Because this is a fresh install of hexos and I formatted all my drives I want to get it right from the start. No mater how many videos I watch I am still confused on what docker is and its use case. (its like a vm folder?) My main question is should I install and set up Dockage or other Docker like programs before installing plex, immich, & maybe home serves for minecraft and enshrouded? Is it needed? What novice benefits does one gain? Sorry for the beginner questions, just wanna learn more and get it right.

The notification is gone and everything working normally, thank you!

Having a launch button for apps with a GUI is really convenient, but I would like to have the option of changing the URL that is used. I have some services exposed publicly through a reverse proxy (i.e. nextcloud, immich), but the button always opens a new tab with the local address. The deck already gives you access to your server from the outside, so if you choose to expose services publicly the buttons become a bit useless...