HexOS on mac.

[KnineDHP]

I have a use case where I would like to run HexOS on an M4 Mac Mini. Do you have any thoughts?

[Technodabbler]

Hi KnineDHP,

Not an official answer, but to my knowledge, I have never seen TrueNas installed on Apple ARM hardware (Mx chips), which is the underlying software running HexOS. Heck, I'm not sure if there is a version of TrueNAS that functions on ARM. That said, you'll have better luck with a 10 year old PC on EBay, as long as it has space for storage.

Cheers,

Technodabbler

[cake]

TrueNas doesn't support ARM. Also, Macs don't have ECC memory. This is what stopped me from getting an M4 Mac Mini for TrueNas, which is applicable for the same reasons for HexOS.

[Thorgrim]

I've been running TrueNAS on a Mac Pro 2013 since 05/2020 (it was FreeNAS then).   First FreeNAS, then TrueNAS Core and finally migrated to TrueNAS Scale.

The machine has 128 GB of ECC RAM (used), a 12 core/24 thread CPU (used, only $70), a SonnetTech PCI breakout box with an Intel X520-DA2 networking card & Supermicro AOC-SHG3-4M2P for M.2 (both cards used).  HDDs are connected with an OWC ThunderBay 4 via Thunderbolt 2.  It's a gangly beast and uses too much power but it works very reliably.

It can be done, at least on Intel based hardware.

What does not work is attaching a GPU to an app for transcoding but the last time I looked it was more an issue that the machine had two identical GPUs.

And yes, for the price, it would be wonderful if a Mac Mini M4 worked.