Mobius

Thanks for sharing your experience yeah ive heard bios updates can be a very scary thing for these Chinese boards with risk of bricking. 2.5gb nics are really hit or miss so many users report they work fine but a lot of users also report problems with it at this point its just safer to go straight for a 10gb nic like the intel x550

Yes make mkv can run on hexos but at this time it will have to be installed via the underlying truenas interface. However i suggest just running it on whichever machine is stronger for convenience purposes. Here is a guide to install it on truenas https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/s/FyNpLmWfYi

Seems like the hexos team has been looking into this issue and there should be a post on it very soon. For now can you try to update the underlying truenas os to 24.10.22 and then try the following Login via TrueNAS UI and navigate to the Network page. Observe the value for the interface IP address as well as the Global Configuration Nameserver and Gateway. The interface should show the IP address that DHCP assigned. Nameserver should show an IP address with “(DHCP)” next to it; most likely matching the gateway. Click “Settings” on Global Configuration and observe the values specified for DNS 1. Even though the value was dynamically assigned, it appears as a fixed value within the Global Configuration Settings pane. Editing the pane and clicking “Save” will change the DNS 1 entry from “DHCP” to static. Editing the pane and deleting the DNS 1 entry and clicking save will return the DNS 1 entry to “DHCP”, but only if the interface IP is also set to DHCP. If the Interface IP’s DHCP checkbox is unchecked and you edit global configuration deleting the DNS 1 entry and clicking save, it will leave DNS 1 blank and no name server will be specified. Click “Edit” on the Interface and observe that no values are specified for the DHCP IP address in the form. Uncheck “DHCP” checkbox. Click “Add” under the “Aliases” section to add a manually specified IP address. Click “Save” Observe the Nameserver still showing “(DHCP)”. Click “Test Changes”. Renavigate your browser to the new manually specified IP to load the TrueNAS UI. Go to the Network page. Observe the Global Configuration section showing no value under Nameservers. Click “Settings” on Global Configuration and observe no value under DNS 1. If it doesnt work please let me know

I wasn't updated on the outcome of this issue after i previously escalated it. I do however know that a member of the team setup a meeting with a few of the individuals with this issue.

it isnt exactly what you want but the truenas app catalogue does list it when there are a lot of users for an app https://apps.truenas.com/catalog/

I don't think this issue has to do with deck up time since https://status.hexos.com/ shows 100% up time for deck and api. I have reached out to the hexos team again to follow up with them on this issue.

1.0 is still planned for this year but it could mean 12/31/2025 nothing more specific has been announced at this time

hexos is not linked to paypal like that Your hexos email address can be different from your paypal account email if you set it up that way please check your various email accounts for hexos or an email with a subject "HexOS Early Access Program Details" to double check which email address you signed up to hexos with. alternatively you can reach out to support@hexos.com and they can see what email address your hexos os licenses are tied to. Please do keep in mind that this process may take some time.

I think it was a very fair assessment of the os and he made some good points.

very cool getting it to work on an arm mac I would however recommend not keeping anything mission critical on it if you don't have another backup on another device or on the cloud.

At the top of this webpage, you can go to the store tab and then manage purchases to see your licenses. the licenses are tied to your account. Its unlikely but you can try and email support@hexos.com and ask if they can separate your licenses into 2 different accounts. but i do want to stress that there is a good chance they cannot.

Any chance you bought it on a different account? The account you are using was made today.

outside of running hexos as a vm, its not possible. glad i could help

it might work but jgreco, the guy that wrote the truenas 10gb primer, called it garbage. yup nvenc should be more than adequate for plex but we usually recommend intel cpus for the lower power draw vs amd cpu + gpu. I get not wanting to deal with 13th and 14th gen. its why i usually recommend 12th and older or the new core ultras. How much it matters really depends on your power costs, for me with my shit rates itll cost me close to $40 usd a year just from gpu idle costs. if this is your OS drive, i would recommend spending less and getting a smaller drive as OS drive doesn't really benefit from being larger than 16gb as the rest of the storage is locked out. you can save your self a bit of money getting arctic p8 max or p8 silent fans, both highly rated. 80 plus efficiency means almost nothing for us homelab nas users as our systems will be at idle most of the time. Check out this article of best psu's from the ppl that do the cybernetics ratings You want to scroll to the graph for idle 20-80w power at 230v (assuming your are in australia) and just find whatever has the most efficiency. in general psus that are rated for smaller loads tend to be more efficient at 20-80w

yes Kinda sorta. adding a m.2 ssd as L2ARC will automatically cache. the most used files and speed up the performance when reading them. A special VDEV will also speed up the entire ssd to a certain degree especially when you have thousands of folders with thousands of files in them like what i'd expect from database workloads. However its not actually tiered behavior

Great write up. I'd do it the same way Steps 1-6 is all that's needed (at this time) to reclaim a disconnected server using the same boot drive for anyone with that problem

in most cases its not but its also not making money like mining theoretically is.

Hexos vm support will be based on the the new truenas 25.04 incus for vm deployment system. I'm not sure if the specifics of what hexos will add to that system has been revealed yet to us. I imagine if hexos does modify it, it will just be for streamlining the process if it is required. Hexos vm support had not been implemented yet because the Hexos team was waiting for the new truenas system to release so they can build off it. At this time changing the kernel is not supported and I imagine its not going to be a supported feature but i can ask the team when i get a chance, if they ever plan on it.

Good observation, i'll see if i can look into that hypothesis

I haven't actually looked into how to do this myself. I'm still running a test server 😅 I would probably just follow along to a youtube video. Officially yes but there are workarounds for at least maintaining your storage. i'm not sure yet how nicely hexos plays with restoring app setups for config files.

very cool setup. One recommendation, since you are using a perviously used and older ssd as your boot drive, look into auto backing up your truenas config file maybe in the cloud. In case the boot drive fails itll just make the process slightly less painful. That said its probably a good idea for everyone to do this

last i heard it was coming sometime in 2025 with the version 1.0 update.

question did you have a raid z1 pool or a mirror pool? I'm just trying to figure out why hitting delete works for some users and not for others

Most users have reported not losing data but it is at your own risk. The less risky alternative is unplugging all your storage drives then going through hexos deck setup, once you are done with that you can turn off and then put everything back in

I think it's the not upgradable 2gb of ram