Grandpa Does Tech

Hi! IMHO I am in the demographic that HEXOS is targeting. A home user that has a lot of data (2 small YouTube channels) and a wife that has a lot of files from her home business (quilting) and photos from 47 years of marriage. I want to dump iCloud and access my files from anywhere in the word such as a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. I have never owned a NAS. After watching a tons of building PCs and NAS devices I really want to build my own NAS or create one from old PCs I have accumulated. But I am intimidated by the thought of not using a OS such as DSM or UGOS. TrueNas and UNRAID scare me away. This would be a perfect fit. This is my use case. However, I am not going to buy it and not know if it works for me. I do like the idea of a subscription monthly fee. I would like to see 30-60-90 days free trial to test the software. Yes, I would start my trial with instant payments as well but a free trial would possibly hook me. Once I got it all set up then I would promptly forget about it and the monthly charges would just keep rolling along. HEXOS would make more money in the long run and I would be comfortable with my set up. Thoughts?

You seriously made me laugh out loud! Yeah, my wife thought I was talking about our upgraded MBAs that we got in 2018, I traded them in for 2 M4 Mac Mini's just a few weeks ago. They were supposed to go to Apple with me and be turned in for recycling. I was going to go to the storage unit today and look for them but I think after your post I will just forget the MBAs. After we move into our new home and unpack I will find them and take them to Apple. I have a Elitebook that is only a couple of years (corporate issue) that has been replaced and will probably attempt to use it. I am worried however about all this discussion regarding attaching HDD enclosures using usb-c and HexOS not recognizing the drives. Reading the forums is making me think this is not a plug and play OS. I am in the target market as someone that doesn't want to spend a lot of time learning how to set up the NAS. I simply want to configure the donor PC with an Enclosure (whether it is HDD or SSD) and create my storage and go. I am beginning this is not an option for me and I should just buy a UGREEN NAS and be done with it.

I just found out that the two MacBook Airs are actually 2010 model years. Here is the specs: Processor and memory 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache; or optional 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum) Storage2 Flash Storage 128GB Flash Storage 256GB Think they will work? I have 2 of them. Thanks

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.

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.