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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.

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

is nextcloud links able to work without a local connection or a reverse proxy?

As far as i can tell nothing will ever be built into hexos it self. As far as i know the nextcloud company shouldn't be able to see your files if you host a next cloud server on your own machine. Nextcloud is a docker app.

Afaik at this time there is no easy way to do that with hexos. It might be better for you to use a prebuilt nas since most have that functionality built in. Maybe someone else has a better answer for you

For the most part it is safe to tweak things using the truenas interface. Some things however are not supported even if tweaked in truenas such as single drive pools

It's a no questions refund as long as you send the request email within the 30 days. There is no other trial. License follows the user and there is no limit swapping hardware. You can easily disconnect the license and connect it to a different server yourself.

not sure if this will help but it wouldn't hurt to try this

I am hoping we get 1.0 before black friday (i have no basis for this hope) but if that does happen, i can't imagine a black friday sale to bring hexos down from the full price of $300 to $100.

There is nothing announced at this time. I wouldn't bet on it though since we are still at a discounted price right now

you're welcome glad i could help

overall looks fine to me somethings to note make sure whatever model you end up purchasing are cmr drives and not smr drives. i would also run a smart test on the drives and check how many reallocated sectors there are before you commit. people tend to buy drive cages (that could even be designed for other cases) and insert them into the case you already have. looks sufficient to me but i would very much recommend upgrading the ram, hexos is an operating system that really likes ram. theoretically you don't need your storage to get through setup but there is almost nothing you can do with hexos without storage drives. At most you can just check if you are able to instal the os as for your sata power question it is out of my area of expertise

I don't have too much experience with smaller builds but this is what i would do First i would start with a m.2 to pcie 16x adapter like this https://a.co/d/iQgjdVb I would then install a lsi/broadcom hba card that is no older than the broadcom 9305 (other options include 9400 and 9500) since they are the only ones that support pcie 3.0 speeds. if you have a case large enough for internal drives i would pick a hba card with an i suffix (i for internal) if you don't i would use a hba card with an e suffix (e for external) There are also one more number next to the letter denoting how many drives the card will support. so if you are okay with capping out at 10 drives internally something like the broadcomm 9305-8i would work for you (8 drives on hba card and 2 drives on motherboard) However if you want to install your drives externally i would get something like this https://a.co/d/ghTg1vF since doesn't use usb but rather sata or some other external storage that has the same external port as the hba card (sff-8644 for the 9305 and 9400) this might seem daunting, and it does kinda feel that way. Maybe someone else can give you a better solution. For the record i don't know enough about the m.2 to pcie 16x adapter or the hdd enclosure to recommend those exact models. you might want to do some research to find out what are the most reliable products in their class.

Updating truenas is something the team explicitly said not to do and that it is an unsupported usecase. So making a bug report probably would not get acted on by the team. However it'll probably be appreciated by anyone looking up update truenas.