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Not a great look to be honest. And I say this as someone whose already paid and I'm using (even daily driving) Hexos. It's meeting my current needs for Jellyfin and rhe Arrs but only because I needed to go into the truenas interface and use AI help to get out setup. I need frigate and cameras in the next couple of weeks, want to setup VMs, want to host freshRSS etc. Currently not doing it because I want to see what 1.0 brings and was just a matter of a few days away...except now its a month away again. I get wanting to let em cook, but at some point just release already! The market is already quite different from when hexos was first announced. What was the point of emphasising in the last two (not one but two) blog posts that they're pushing back from end of 2025 to Q1 of 2026 if it's going to be delayed again. Literally from the last blog post: "And finally, mark your calendars: HexOS 1.0 is coming in Q1 2026." Except don't mark your calendars because actually we'll just delay again? Again, I say this as a customer whose already paid (so it's not like I'm hoping for them to fail but likewise I do expect to receive the product as advertised and for when advertised when I already paid for it). 1.0 has really got to come out asap and actually have a sizeable scope, many more one-click apps and working out of the box, otherwise truenas on it's own or other solutions are better value.

According to this picture found at https://nascompares.com/2024/10/04/jonsbo-n5-review/ , it seems like he has added the 4 SATA cables and 1 SATA Power cable to the board, no MOLEX. My best bet is that you can either use MOLEX or SATA Power, but don't need both.

You aren't able to add Gluetun to a HexOS app, or a regular TrueNAS app. You have to either install the Dockge app in TrueNAS and then install the Arr apps through Dockge. Or you have to install them as a custom app in TrueNAS. I do hope HexOS will get a good way of routing app networking through a VPN, but I expect it won't happen soon. @Isaac7ski

"Working on a blog post with an update. We had to push back to April due to some issues with our health system that we've been tracking down since February. The plan is to both begin the rollout of HexOS Local and complete the health system upgrades and then release 1.0 by end of April. I was hoping to get a blog up today with all of this information, but it just didn't come together fast enough." -JonP "I am traveling today but I will be working on getting this blog post up tomorrow (April 2nd). I'm also planning to hire someone to take over marketing/comms this year as a full time position." -Jonp Link to discussion

They just posted in another thread. Saying it will be delayed until end or April. Blog post coming tomorrow (April 2nd)

I have the same issue with my APC UPS. From some previous investigation on that topic, I found that the issue might be caused by the Network UPS Tool driver, and a new version might fix the issue. The NUT version in TrueNas is linked to the Debian version, and Debian Trixie upgrades the driver to 2.8.1-5 Should be available in Truenas Halfmoon (26.04)

This one is entirely on me. I am traveling today but I will be working on getting this blog post up tomorrow (April 2nd). I'm also planning to hire someone to take over marketing/comms this year as a full time position.

Oh, that's unfortunate... Thanks for the info, will try

well 4 are connected but is there a way to fix it

Hey, yes unfortunately this seems to be normal for BX APC UPS. Those UPS are not the best ones and the driver does not work very well with them. The problem seems to be that the USB part of the UPS keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every couple of seconds leading to this messages. It's a known problem. My advice would be, if you can still return it, do so and try looking for an Eaton UPS or similar. https://forums.truenas.com/t/back-ups-bx1600m-false-battery-replacement-alerts/50688

Hello there I just hooked up my APC bx750 via USB to my NAS. I was pleasantly surprised to get email notifications from hexos (see attachment), however I am unsure if it is reading the values correctly: - why is it telling me i need a battery replacement, it is brand new - why is it taking me battery is low while also reporting 100% charge Any inputs are welcome 😊

It seems to have happened after the latest HexOS update. This is what the UI looks like here. It's the same for General, Access, Options and Encruption. I've tried to clear the browser cache. I'm running Microsoft Edge.

@Okibblewhite you may know the answer to this question. With the boards in the N5, Do I need both the sata and molex power connected? or would just the sata be enough? I am only using the small 4 bay atm, mainly because my PSU does not have enough plugs for the sata and molex for the main rack. Have not been able to find a clear response anywhere. The NSAcompare article said that either sata or molex would be fine.

Another month, huh? The least you could do is respect the people waiting with some communication ahead of time. Instead it's silence all day on release day and a last-minute delay notice as if it wasn't clear days ago this could happen. You created this self-imposed deadline,, nobody forced it. A delay with advance communication - fine. But the silence until 9 PM? That's just pure disrespect

Working on a blog post with an update. We had to push back to April due to some issues with our health system that we've been tracking down since February. The plan is to both begin the rollout of HexOS Local and complete the health system upgrades and then release 1.0 by end of April. I was hoping to get a blog up today with all of this information, but it just didn't come together fast enough.

1.0 should be out today. When will it be pushed out?

from you screenshot it looks like you only have 3 of the 4 harddrives that the pool consists of installed into the system.

Holy moly. I thought that 1 N5 was big. If the price for that much RAM didn't make me uncomfortable the realestate prices to store those two certainly would. Just finished putting mine together in the last 24 hrs.

Look into Jellyfin as a completely free alternative to plex (which has a subscription model for certain things) and none of your GPUs are supported by Hexos. With Truenas Version 25.10 currently only GTX16 Series or newer (RTX Series) are supported, supported for everything up to GTX10 Series was dropped. Also make sure your motherboard doesn't have a Realtek NIC, if it does, it's possible and highly likely that it's not supported. In that case you need to get another NIC, preferably Intel.

So that is enough to run a nas. My only issue is with drive selection, if you don't need sas I would stay away from it. My first nas I built for hexos was slapped together with random cheap 4tb drives I pulled from ebay and for it's lifetime I only lost 3 drives. So save some scratch and just focus on a better quality sata drive.

Hi Everyone, I am looking to build my first home NAS out of an old PC and I'm wondering if I am going in the right direction or if there are any recommendations/changes that I should make. My old gaming PC i want to use has a 3930k, 16GB Ram, 200gb SSD and a GTX680 or GTX1080 in it (depending on requirements which one i end up leaving in there). The SSD will be the OS boot. I mainly want to use it for photo backup (Immich) and a plex (or other recommendation) media server. For the photo back up I want to be able to remotely back up mine and my wife's phone photos and view them. For the media server the main use case is over a 2.5g ethernet to 4k TV/Theatre PC and the occasional remote view on my phone or tablet/laptop. My main questions are about what storage solution i should use and if my current hardware is enough for a NAS and media server. I have found a good deal on refurbished SAS hard drives, 4x4tb dell enterprise so 12tb usable with 1 fail redundancy for about half the price of 4x ironwolf red 4tb. I do want to eventually add more drives but depending on pricing availability i may have to change to SATA for the new ones. I will be buying a pcie controller for the drives anyway so i don't mind getting a SAS or SATA and my MB has some on board SATA ports for future if required. if i decide to go SATA for future drives and have SAS currently can i add them to the partition pool or can i make a second pool out of the SATA drives or will it not let me have 2 kinds of drives at all. Is my current CPU powerful enough for HexOS and a Plex server, i heard there may be issues with encoding etc but will it work for just over network if i don't remotely watch. What recommendations do people have for a pcie SAS or SATA controller depending on what kind of configuration I decide on. Any help will be much appreciated and I cant wait to join the home NAS community 🙂

I would like to see Stoat server and other popular self-hosted Discord alternatives as curated apps given Discord's more recent issues.

This was a while ago so I am unsure. I do not remember having to reset any permissions on the datasets I had though. I'm waiting on a secondary Dell server to come in and am going to spin up my test HexOS machine again, so I can let you know on that one once I get all that setup.

Yeah, I’m pretty keen to see this as an app or container. Crosstalk stated they’ll look at those features once all the main stuff is sorted out

I messaged the user. Thanks for the shoutout!