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Hello, I just bought HexOS in hopes for saving up money one-day for a NAS of my own to host my own Jellyfin server. I just wanted to voice my interest to try to help towards getting it pushed up in priority. Linus if you can help with NAS suggestions I would appreciate it.

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While that my be true in the mirror, one of the two boot partitions are being actively booted into, while the other is further down the order - that's what I meant by first/second

Hello, If there is one thing I really miss in TrueNAS that is available in QNAP, it is the QFile app in iOS and Android and a Webfiler. It gives the ability to manage most files and folder on the NAS locally so anly the command pass over the network. There are several solutions to manage files and folders within one dataset but that is not what is needed. I hope HexOS can provide something similar to QNAP and Synology. If it is a limitation of ZFS we will have to learn to life with it. Kind regards. Marcus

Yes you can select both and then both drives will be used for the boot pool. I don't know exactly how it works, but if your first boot drive dies you should be able to boot from your second drive and get back into operation

I think making furniture functional like this is awesome! It's why my desk is the PC. As for answering the original question, I can't say I'd have done much different, but this Beta 1.0 has been a bit underwhelming. I get it, they need to get the kinks out since it seems A LOT of people had issues installing, while I fortunately had none. My experience has be optimal. I did jump the gun on a couple of apps, which installed perfectly fine without problems through TrueNAS. However, I look forward to JellyFin app being implemented, I just don't have the motivation to figure it out. So I'll just wait and not watch my content.

ChatGPT for the win

Mostly for VM's. I tend to spin up a lot of VM's when a new distro comes out to kick the tires, as it were.

So you don't want a 42U rack in your living room?? 😆

Timing is perfect for this topic. I appreciate you all waiting until 2025 to bring this up. The road to 1.0 blog post was just a way to set our targets out there. We didn't communicate a specific timeline because we honestly had no idea how much to estimate we would sell at launch, which would directly in turn impact our ability to expand the team and impact our timelines. We just felt that, conservatively, we would do well enough to deliver the blog post roadmap in 2025....yeah....we had no idea what was about to happen ;-). Beat our expectations by about 5x. With the success we've had, we just onboarded three new people to the company in the past 30 days, with a goal of bringing on at least two more developers in 2025 as well and potentially a few other admin hires. This has completely thrown our previous "back of the napkin" roadmap out the window. Let's just say, we're not going to be talking about features just for 1.0 anymore. You guys have given us enough runway to plot out PAST 1.0. Give us a little more time to get our bearings as we onboard new staff, prepare new development environments, implement new systems, and role out our first software updates. More communication coming soon.

When you setup hexos, you are forced to wipe all data. There should be an advanced mode to keep as is. If ever your OS drive(say nvme) dies and the OS needs to be reinstalled, I don't want to lose all my data that's already setup in raidz xyz Forcing the user to wipe all drives is a disaster waiting to happen

It depends on your use case and what you need. Do you mainly need the NAS and the VMs are just "nice to have" or are the VMs important and Hexos is just one part/VM of many for you? If I see that you want to spin up Ubuntu and Windows, you might as well go with Proxmox and Hexos as a VM, however this comes with it's own challenges. A lot of guides on how to install truenas are outdated/recommend suboptimal settings and you can only pass-through your GPU to 1 VM, meaning if you pass through your GPU to hexos for plex streaming, you can not use it in your ubuntu VM for machine learning in Frigate NVR (this is just an example, not sure Frigate NVR uses GPU acccleration). But on the plus sidey Proxmox is specifically developed to manage VMs and you typically find a lotnof guides and help for itm Whereas if you use barebone Hexos, you don't have to fiddle with the VM pass-through stuff for Hexos, but the VM managing part might be less optimal and less performant. According to the Intel spec page, your CPU supports virtualisation. However, it will likely be on the week side if you want to run those 3 OSes together. Also Hexos requires minimum 8GB of RAM, meaning you need to significantly upgrade your memory. Your CPU supports max up to 32GB of RAM and that is probably what you should aim for, since 16GB might be to little.