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To be fair to the developers, they aren't charging full price for it at the moment. The full intended price is $300 for a lifetime license. I just checked the website and it's still being sold for the beta pricing of $199.

Hi! I’m currently running Proxmox with two VMs: one Ubuntu VM hosting a Minecraft server, and another running HexOS. I’m not sure what the future holds in terms of more services, so I’m wondering what would be the better approach: – Should I stick with Proxmox and keep running VMs/containers there? – Or would it make more sense to switch fully to HexOS/TrueNAS, use the built-in apps when possible, and only create VMs through the TrueNAS interface if needed? I’d love to hear suggestions or experiences from anyone who has tried both approaches. Thanks! (made with help of ai to hopefully make it easier to understand)

Hi there brains trust. I am in the process of building out my HexOS NAS. My planned usage is for the NAS to function as a backup server for my wife and I's computers and phones, a backup for my photo collection as well as functioning as a personal cloud and media server (unsure what method to use). I managed to score an old storage server from a friends work and I have been slowly preparing it for use. I have 1000/100 internet and am planning on upgrading my home network to 10GBe as part of the process. In terms of hardware: 8 core Xeon E5-2600 (unsure which exact model) Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard 64Gb RAM GTX 1070 GPU (old GPU from gaming setup) a 10Gb NIC, (looking for recommendations) 4x SAS9211-8i cards (might be exhausting PCI-E lanes) 26x 6Tb HDD 6x 512Gb SATA SSD Eventually I plan on updating the board and CPU to an old Epyc combo and look at adding an M.2 SSD to serve as the boot drive but that is a down the line plan. My big concern with all this is that from the FAQ, it says that a pool should only contain 12 devices, so with my above hardware would I be looking at running 4 pools? And if so are the pools functionally separate?

I should provide an update for this... It Works. My hardware is as follows: (built shortly after this post) the linked motherboard-CPU combo (unit?) above (thermalright AXP90 cooler) 32 GB of DDR4 LSI 9240-8I HBA 3 (now 4) 4tB Seagate Ironwolf Pro HDDs (fourth was added a week or so ago with little fanfare) Jonsbo N4 (with an additional fan on a 3D printed stand for the HBA) silverstone 450w SFX PSU After building the system i did quite a bit of tinkering, i am running the following services: Immich, Jellyfin, Jellyseer, pihole, portainer, tailscale and a some VMs The above taken into account, i have spent a fair amount of time within the TrueNAS UI which is both less and more intimidating than its reputation indicates. Let me know if you have any questions (i will do my best to answer them).

Yeah, as mentioned in the post, I saw this. I just thought it meant instead of being early in 2025 it would be late 2025. I understand this, but your website only says "*Some features will not be immediately available upon beta release.". If you are launching the product and having people pay full price for it, you need to either update your website to remove the not available features, or update it to make it VERY clear that these are future state features and not applicable to the current state of the product. I am mostly excited for the new App Curation system, and to see how the team resolves the issues with the existing apps (Plex & Immich). I am cautiously optimistic about this update being the first time it feels like I will be using HexOS instead of TrueNAS.

Looking forward to the Q3 release. Bring it on!

We officially announced our intention to delay VM support as part of the Q1 status update back in March. Since then, its important to note that TrueNAS pivoted their VM strategy again when they decided to drop Incus for traditional VMs and go back to their previous implementation with libvirt (as of 25.04.2). Due to all of this, we decided it would be best to restart the VM implementation in 2026 once development is finalized. I can see the confusion here, but we never promised all of these features would be delivered with the 1.0 release. Our focus on 1.0 is achieving platform stability. Furthermore, you're forgetting one pretty major feature that wasn't listed on the site: Local UI. This is the next feature we are focusing on after the Q3 release. Snapshots and Buddy Backups are still possibilities for this year, but likely would continue to carry the "beta" tag into 2026 to give more time for public testing. The Q3 update is nearly complete, which will carry some pretty big features including MULTIPLE new curated apps and folder support for Apple Time Machine/Quotas. Furthermore, we will have a new "Experimental Features" toggle that will enable users to create Encrypted folders as well as provide access to our new app templating/install scripts solution.

Hi, i don't really know if it's possible or if it has been discussed earlier but is it possible for HexOS to display differents pcie cards information (like what card is in what slot) or direcly display the GPU informations like the usage the drivers etc a little like it is done with the cpu informations? I think it could be a great options for those who use gpu for transcoding or in VM... thank you all 😁

happy i could help

Alright then. Thank you for the answer. I don't want to complicate my life, so I will go with the CPU encoding only and use the PCI for the SATA expansion card. Cheers.

so out of the box it likely would not support both since there is only one full size pcie slot. I think there is an extra x4 pcie slot but it would like likely need some modification to allow larger devices to fit (or you need to purchase an adapter) and even then im not 100% if itll work or not. the 12600k works really well with plex specifically because of the optimizations intel made with intel quick sync. you likley don't need need a gpu.

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Hi all, Just seeking clarification here - the HexOS team have said they're still targeting V1.0 for release this year. A topic on Reddit has a response from the HexOS_Official user stating Can the team clarify when VM support is coming, as that was a major selling point for HexOS. Will V1.0 be launched without a major feature? I understand that 25.04 pushed back the release of VM features, but from the how I read the Q1 update (the last time this was spoken about, in March...) I took it to be that it was being done, just at a lower priority than the App support, but would still be coming this year. If I am looking at the HexOS website, we are currently at 3/6 of the below features. Even if they launch App deployment in the next few weeks for their Q3 update, I don't see how they are able to complete VMs, Buddy Backups & Snapshots in the next 3 months, which means they can't actually be targeting a 2025 release, but we've had no official word saying the release has been pushed back. The last word on this was from March 7th:

I think the dev team and forum moderators understand what you are saying. The difficulty is when in a deep dev cycle, what can they report that will keep their audience happy? All they can say is "Yep we are working and making progress". We all want more but there may not be more details to be had without giving out priority secrets. And if they do say things are good and they are close we would start a clock and call the project late because we want it now. We're all in a tough spot.

The only thing that makes it harder now is I am now doing it myself. Well and though it's not harder, I used to use two 2GB and two 4GB drives. Finding reasonably priced but dependable storage in large quantities can be a challenge with all the heavily used drives being dumped on the secondary market..

i also was expecting an updated roadmap.. i am not following the forum that closely.. and was wondering how the development is going.. the current roadmap is outdated and not really hopefull for new users if they see that old roadmap... if you see the old roadmap you would think HexOS is a dead project..

I'm not following the project to closely, I just want to know when VM's will be worked into it. I imagine from a marketing standpoint; it would make a lot of sense to have an updated one for perspective adopters. When I see a roadmap that's that old I would wonder if the project stalled.

One more question. With the build you have made for me, can I use a dedicated low profile GPU AND the SATA expansion card? I was thinking that Plex endowing would benefit from it. Cheers

Awesome, I'll give it a shot then!

I don't have any experience with unraid so I'm wondering what makes it harder to use?

Is that what the templates mentioned many times throughout the forums would be? That is what I had been thinking all along so I may have missed the boat.

I have a working Unraid setup a network analyst friend built for me. I couldn't really do anything with it myself but I could invite him and his wife over periodically and "upgrade" it. When I saw Linus's video and then the initial circle of tech reviewers I decided it was time to try myself. I have no complaints but my needs are pretty straight forward and I got the Black Friday package.

I don`t mind spending the time to learn! I am just gauging the state of what is currently possible, I might just buy it and sit on it for a bit , or I can just try and deploy it in another machine. To be honest , what I dont want is to spend a few weeks learning something to realize it wont work for what I want - as in it will not be possible one way or another. I currently have a "working" setup, the biggest pain has been GPU pass through - I am not expecting a 1 solution that will do anything, its more of a Is this just a NAS, or can I use it as virtualization station as well kinda question, if it makes sense - because right now thats what my proxmox is , a virtualized station with multiple OSes and apps running.

I think the wording of your questions is a bit hamstringing. For instance, I have been using Tailscale to access my Immich app outside the internal network. As well I can access all the NAS data. But, the only apps officially supported are HexOS core, Immich and Plex. If you were to browse the full forums you would see the current owners of HexOS are having success with all types of apps but to be completely transparent there are still some issues. If your a gambler, you buy in and try the things you need. If you are looking for an out of the box production NAS, I don't think we are quite there yet. My start was miserable but I came to this product with big hopes but small knowledge and I am already getting everything I wanted. Just keep in mind that if the HexOS team isn't showing t as a supported app doesn't it will or will not be supported in a year.

Instructions here worked for me, though I have to either launch the webUI via TrueNas UI, or manually using the IP:port.