Minimum Hardware SPECS

[Backup2024]

Hello HexOS

Please advise if you can create the following:

Hardware SPEC's:

• Minimum
• Recommended
• Maximum

[Midnight2ss]

https://hexos.com/early-access-faq

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HexOS is designed to support a wide variety of x86 hardware (Intel or AMD).  The minimum requirements are a 2-core 64-bit CPU, 8GB of memory, and a 16GB or larger SSD boot device.  However, depending on your needs for performance and applications, more resources may be required.

Storage pools are made up of devices based on size and type (HDDs vs. SSDs).

Storage devices in each pool need to be roughly the same size*.

The OS boot device cannot be a part of a pool.

Expandable pools require a minimum of 3 devices and can be grown one device at a time.

Non-expandable pools can be created with 2 devices.

Initial pool width should not exceed 8 devices.

Maximum expanded pool width should not exceed 12 devices.

At least one storage pool must be created to use HexOS.

 

[Rg_HomeLabber]

Given the small size of the boot device, can this be installed on a removable USB drive?  What are the I/O characteristics of the boot drive?  Can this I/O be redirected to a storage pool once established?

[jonp]

49 minutes ago, Rg_HomeLabber said:

Given the small size of the boot device, can this be installed on a removable USB drive?  What are the I/O characteristics of the boot drive?  Can this I/O be redirected to a storage pool once established?

No install to USB supported at this time and OS I/O must live on the boot device.  These are TrueNAS requirements that we can't really get around.  The main issue is that the OS is pretty chatty, so lots of read/write to the boot drive.  USB isn't ideal for that and we're not a root ram filesystem like Unraid.