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So it took two weeks for what every reason. But i got such a great deal that I do not care 8 sticks of dual rank 16gb DDR4 ECC. I got it for 70 buck in the last 3 weeks there has been some good deals on eBay for both memory and used SAS drives. So happy!

Still no update at this time but an updated roadmap should be coming out soon

what a great deal access to inexpensive ecc memory is such a huge boon for actual server grade hardware i think i dropped around $300 for new 4x48gb sticks of ddr5 non ecc ram. @ubergeek check facebook marketplace and craigslist. i tend to have better luck with fb. i also would just get whatever clock speeds are available as ram speeds aren't too important with truenas/hexos. More than likely you'll be bottle necked somewhere else

Sorry guys. Just seeing this. Im so glad it worked for you @skywalker-2 I was literally in the same boat as you, I wasted hours trying to get Plex HW transcoding to work. I dont know what would you suggest @Dylan? Maybe make an Edit saying that others have reported the fix working without adding user 569? I have yet to try my fix without user 569 but I only have one Hex OS licence and man I sure would hate to re-re-restart my Plex server hahaha.

Thank you so much @Tamaluko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also was able to get my igpu (i5-13400) working in plex for transcoding after following your instructions. The only thing I didn't follow was the new user step, so thank you as well @Master-spud for reporting 568 still worked. Was really starting to feel like I was running in circles before I found this thread.

In the end HexOS turned into more of a TrueNAS installer for me. I don't know if that saved me a ton of time and hassle, or if it was more like an hour worth of following a guide instead, but either way getting up and running was very painless. After that, I can't think of a thing HexOS has actually fully supported without needing to pop into TrueNAS. Not even the health status in HexOS can be trusted, which is stil baffling to me. I've been saying I feel it was launched very prematurely, and I maintain that. I'm hoping that it was because they desperately needed cashflow, in which case HexOS could turn out well in the end. If, on the other hand, they felt it was in good shape to launch to early adopters, I would be much less optimistic. Time will tell. I've gotten the NAS to a state where it does the job now, without having done anything to break or confuse HexOS (at least that I can see), so I'm just using it now and seeing what the future brings. It might be HexOS, it might be shedding HexOS and just going pure TrueNAS. In a sense you could say I've shelved HexOS, because there's no reason for me to ever access its interface. If my boot drive exploded today I would probably just install TrueNAS and recover the pool there instead, because HexOS doesn't even offer a way to backup and restore itself (another baffling "nah, we don't need that before releasing" decision), or even recover an existing pool without at least threatening to wipe it in the process. But, technically, HexOS is still on my server, so there's that.

Great question! Because I have limited needs, just a storage device with basic streaming capabilities, I use HexOS on the daily - mainly Plex. However, this is just part of my larger effort to build out a home solution that will eventually replace paid-for services that have increasingly risen is price and are more inclusive of advertisements (I LOATH ads with a perfect hatred). I am attempting to time my efforts with HexOS maturation. Which is to say as HexOS gains in features, I look to increase my DIY replacement of paid-for services. I know not everyone has the same timeline, level of effort, risk tolerance etc.. as I do, but that's why I jumped in early. I keep backups, try to contribute to this community and help where I can to see where this is going.

Feature Suggestion: UPS Integration for Automatic Shutdown Enable Hexos to natively support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion? support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion?

Yes supporting migration from TrueNAS to HexOS is planned.

I did a search that lead here because I was wondering if there was a need, and if so a convenient way, to export/backup extra configurations like file shares and such in case of boot drive failure. I figured that it might be automatically backed up to the pool, so that when you reinstalled on a fresh boot drive and imported the pool, it would just ask if you wanted to import the configuration from it and it would be as if nothing ever happened. It didn't even cross my mind that recovering from a boot drive failure at all would not be considered basic functionality. Leaving that aside, does this mean that someone in this situation could start installing HexOS, but bypass and log into TrueNAS directly and recover the pool that way? I don't mean in the sense that you could then continue in HexOS, necessarily, but that you could at least get a file share or something started in TrueNAS so that you could extract the data. Or is there a way to create and download a boot drive backup via the HexOS interface, perhaps? Because if the only way to make the system recoverable from both types of drive failure, is to regularly boot from another boot device in order to image the boot drive, that's... exactly the kind of jank I really want to avoid having to deal with.

Got it, I wanted to use an older 128GB SSD to not waste my larger ones but looks like is better if I use the more reliable larger ones

in the TrueNAS, you could juat import the existing pool, and your data still intach.. But as right now in beta, HexOS ignores all of existing pool and data and treat it as a new drives and wipes everything. Lets hope the developers acknowledge this and let us import the existing pool.

But it’s not a niche and being sarcastic won’t make you’re response any more correct than my request? I dunno why people feel the need to put other people’s suggestions to bed, if you have nothing positive to say, say nothing at all 👍🏻 it is based off truenas, that much is true 🤣 and they have made it very clear, they aren’t lowing the minimum requirements? however back in the day when truenas was at the beginning of development, the minimum requirements were much lower. lots of big and small networking manufacturers, have made network attached storage devices (NAS products) most of these devices have seen support dropped from these big brands, netgear for example, so customers such as my self need a new operating system, in order to keep our devices secure online and up to date, so they can support the latest applications, some will try and argue this is a niche market! however you will be surprised by how many of these devices are still out there! think of windows xp, then windows 7 then 10 now 11 and how Microsoft force people to buy new hardware. my device, the readynas 422 isn’t that old supporting DDR4 which is just one generation behind in the DDR standard, by supporting these low end devices you gain users and free recommendations, you’d have to be extremely narrowminded and stubborn to ignore the market I am apart of! Yes it has a small amount of on board ram, which can not be swapped but it is still very functional, all the developers need to do is switch off the unnecessary services that will be running in the background, I’m sure none of you have probably bothered to look in service with in windows but I have and there’s a lot of stuff that can be turned off because it’s pointless! with that I rest my case!

Normally, the boot drive dying isn't an issue (except for the fact that you have to buy a new drive) as long as you have a backup off your settings. You would just reinstall the OS, import the backup and you are good to go. However since Hexos is still in Beta, this is currently not possible, there is no option to skip the pool creation during setup. This will come in the future but it is not there yet. Until then, if your boot drive stops working, your are going to install truenas directly and import the pools (the pool information is stored on the drives, which means you can directly read it from them) this way you can still access your data, however you have lost the Hexos part and can only switch back to Hexos once it supports pool import. Since the data drives using ZFS you have to read them as such, you cannot just mount them individually and try to get data from them. But as I said a boot drive dying will not result in data loss, you would only need to switch to truenas for the time being.