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not all external drive enclosures are compatible with hexos either. Hexos requires the drives to have their serial numbers reported but many enclosures cheap out on that and just report a generic serial number that is the same for all drives which will cause problems detecting all drives. I'm not aware of which enclosures report all the proper data.

8 GB of 2133 MHz LPDDR3 RAM, 128 GB SSD, Intel Core i5 processor (1.6 GHz base clock, with Turbo up to 3.6 GHz) with Intel UHD Graphics 617. I forgot to list this. You are correct, I would only install HexOs on internal SSD and use external HDD for storage. Thanks! Now I have to find where I stored the 2 Macs.

Try reaching out to support using the contact us link at the bottom of this website. I can't make any promises tho.

I believe that's an Intel Mac so it should be possible to install alternative operating systems like hexos. However running hexos on external drives can be problematic and generally not recommended

Hi! I have 2 MacBook Airs 2018 that have been mothballed. I would like to use 1 as a dedicated NAS server. Is it possible to erase the MacOs from Air and install HexOs as the only OS on it? Do I even need to erase the MacOS? I want to add a 4 bay HDD enclosure to the Mac. If successful I will give the second Air to a friend and have them be my buddy. Thanks in advance! Total newb to NAS.

Yeah you're probably right. Hardware will change over time. But that is also the point of this endeavour 😊

Hmm. When I bought a 10MB hard drive for my PC XT I was told that was future proof. I wonder how much of that hardware will still be there in two years? Sure looks set for now though. 😁

Nice transition. Looks as a future proof setup! And a pretty clean setup too.

The other day I securely erased my Synology NAS. Marking the start of my future with HexOS and TrueNAS after a few months of testing. I went from three mini PC:s and one synology NAS to this: The pic includes my main gaming rig - the NAS is the black box. The box that now runs all my services including a VM with Windows for certain windows specific tasks. The NAS specs: Fractal Node 304 case Gigabyte A520I AC ITX motherboard Ryzen 5700G (8C/16 threads) 32GB 3200mhz (memtested 24h) 3x 4TB HDDs (can expand to 6 drives as needed) GTX 1060 for steam streaming - isolated for the windows VM PSU 350w (The NAS draws 60w idle) APC UPS What’s running: Transmission Immich VPN Minecraft server Windows VM (“Steamcache”, streaming and more) NUT-server (as the UPS is shared with the gaming rig) Cloud backups Samba of course More to come (the hardware is barely working) Problems setting it up: There were some but so few that I can't even remember them. Mostly with HexOS on testing-hardware not the final parts. Looking forward to everything coming in the future. But honestly… I’m fine 😎

Can you add a picture please? I am wrestling with Tailscale/reverse proxy/Cloudflare and getting remote access. For Plex I get remote access sometimes and not other times. Since I seriously doubt this is a HexOS issue I am trying to talk to Plex themselves. I would not be surprised if I jus missed something like this or have it in the wrong place. Thanks.

Hi, I missed the $99 offer. Didnt know about it. Think the price is higher at $199 and yet even higher @ $249. Anyways, I have a unique situation. I cannot pay more than $150 per transaction. So, either keep the price $150 for me i/o $199. Or let me pay in two installments. Regards, Zia.

So, installed and ready, would it work? TrueNAS dashboard has the answer. Success 😀 Next step would be playing with storage files. After I got the hang of smb shares…

Just one thing I forgot to mention earlier. My SSD chip should be connected to SATA 2 or SATA 3 on the motherboard, according to ipc.net support (Jessica Fang). The one I used, the more easily available is SATA 3 to the middle right in this photo, with the black connector and cable visible. You can also see half of another SATA port just below in the photo, with the other half hidden under the board above it.

By now I feel comfortable opening up this computer case, and here is the pre-installed RAM, top of the picture. The two shiny metal ”handles” left and right of the stick you push outwards to release the stick. New RAM installed, ready to be pushed down, to sit properly. Second picture.

Literally had that recently when getting my remote server, bought a second hand system with a board that had built in IPMI, but then it doesn't work, as to use the software even in a browser, it needs Java that's so old it's blocked across ALL OS's... 🫠 i even created a windows 7 VM to attempt to use it to no avail haha... Jet KVM > Plug & Play! 🙏🏻

About two weeks ago I mentioned I got a 48GB RAM stick, for a spare or for upgrade at some point. Could I resist installing it now? No. 48GB is the max RAM possible here, and I believe it doesn’t hurt with a little more of it 😉

Just to add a little more info about NVME performance in this configuration, I know the 'bottleneck' is going to be the 2.5GbE NIC, but as I also mentioned I also run a Windows VM on the NAS. I just built another VM for some testing and thought it would be appropriate to run CrystalDiskMark on it, results below; In this run (above) I think the ZFS cache absorbed the 'test file' and massively accelerated the read performance. In this one I increased the memory allocated tot he VM with the intention of making it unavailable for ZFS caching. I'm aware that I could have disabled it on the pool but I have other things running on there and I thought this way would be more representative of a system being starved of memory. This one was (I think) more representative of the windows experience I'm seeing. Windows is very usable over RDP and I noticed no performance issues in the tasks I was using it for.

I seem to have resolved this my simply adding the local IP to the custom port field 192.168.68.72:32400 Hope this helps someone in the future!

Agreed. Maybe we need to start saying our level of expertise is more inline with novice instead of saying less technical.

Keep us posted @ulfn!

I don't know for how much longer you can self refer as "less technical" - you're doing some pretty tech-fu stuff and, as far as I can tell, both enjoying and understanding it. Well done!

I'd get both if I could but depending on release time - such a fun little device. I love this kind of innovation. I can recall numerous times myself and others have said something like "why is KVM so damn hard to get right" or "why does ipmi have to have suck" lol...

There will also a PoE version. FAQ on Kickstarter (24th of October 2024): While there won’t be a Power over Ethernet version just yet, a PoE-compatible JetKVM device is on our roadmap.

I've also ran Plex on an old iMac with port forwarding in the past without issue. I've just moved across to hexOS and installed Plex and I'm now getting the issue that Plex is using the Private address of 172.16.1.2:32400 my local address range is 192.168.68.X. There is no way to change the address itself within the Plex web interface only the port. Is there something I need to do within TrueNAS to resolve this issue, if so can anyone recommend a good place to start please?

Yeah found the last email i received March 26th