Any advanced NAS users here? How hexos campares to truenas only?

[WhyCheese]

For example installing and configuring raw truenas and hexos. How much diference it is for you? Maybe you used other than truenas software? If you used truenas only, why you choose hexos on top of it?

Myselft i tried only "OpenMedia Vault" wich was confusing at the time for that sort of thing.

[ubergeek]

I went from truenas to hex "At Home" because it seemed like it will be easier for myself and when I have clients that need a better than Box store NAS solutions. I run Truenas at work on a large scale, I know it well and have no issues getting it to work . There are a few things users that will be coming in to this realm that will be a bit of a learning curve until there is updates and feature implements that will seem a bit odd. Truenas as it stands is geared for the more advanced Tech / I.T. ppeople. but if someone wanted to deep dive and read / watch plenty of videos on the subject it can be easier to run and setup.  

[Dylan]

On 12/27/2024 at 9:33 AM, WhyCheese said:

why you choose hexos on top of it?

For me, I choose to roll with HexOS because someone finally decided to engineer a K.I.S.S approach to large scale file management. I'm in IT and have been for long than I care to admit and, frankly, as much fun as I have DIY'ing  home builds I do not want to have to admin for my entire family. If I can deploy a storage solution that enables me and my family to easily stream, backup and share data without having to deep-dive every little config...count me in.

I love this stuff, I just want it to be easier to make available to others! 🤓

[jpadgett]

So I had tried TrueNas and it was cool but just to complicated. Don't get me wrong I liked it and if i wanted to spend the time I would figure it out. In my day job I design and program automation control system for HVAC using PLC like control called BacNet. The company i work for designed a Wrapper to pull in the points from a controller allow you to map it to animated graphics or text and display it in really time in a browser. So this is right up my alley.

[dinecoj]

I had a TrueNAS install with a few shares and a major pain point was permissions management. Creating a new user for my partner was a multi step process, and granting access to the shares was complicated. I had issues with permissions propagating from one folder to the next within a given share. She would have access to one folder in the share but not another, and for every new folder we created there would need to be another permissions edit. I really wanted something that just worked and didn't require more tinkering after an 8 hour workday, and that's what I've gotten with HexOS so far.

I only used TrueNAS for its NAS features - SMB shares, backblaze backup, scheduled smart tests + email report. Of those three, HexOS only sets up the SMB shares right now, but at least there's a much simpler permissions management system.

In the future I look forward to trying out some of the 1-click install apps, as complicated installs and maintenance are what previously turned me off of them.

[Dylan]

14 hours ago, jpadgett said:

I design and program automation control system for HVAC using PLC like control

(Off topic reply but we just paid Siemens a metric ton of money to update our commercial HVAC. I started asking why it was so damn expensive and found out it's the custom automation and an UI representing our facility. Now I know who took our money!! 😆)

[jpadgett]

On 1/1/2025 at 1:31 PM, Dylan said:

(Off topic reply but we just paid Siemens a metric ton of money to update our commercial HVAC. I started asking why it was so damn expensive and found out it's the custom automation and an UI representing our facility. Now I know who took our money!! 😆)

I work for Trane Technologies!