Is HexOS suited for a small to medium size business?

[jonathanpublic]

Hey guys,

I understand that HexOS is targeting homelabs mostly. But I wonder how well it would work for a small enterprise use case.

Is a default installation of HexOS/TrueNAS secure enough to be used in an office with 15-20 employees without having to put in major effort hardening TrueNAS underneath?

For context we're growing out of a 4 bay Synology NAS. I'm debating between buying another Synology NAS with better networking (10gbe networking), or building a custom server and using HexOS/TrueNAS for the OS.

Is there any reason why HexOS would be a bad choice for an OS on a custom built file server for a business?

The reason why HexOS is attractive is because I have a lot of experience with hardware and building my own PC's but I don't want to have to micromanage the software. But it would still be nice to be able to get into the weeds on the TrueNAS layer should the need arise.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

FYI, I'm already a customer. I use HexOS on my home media server. So I know it's a good product. Planning on buying another license for buddy backup when it's available.

[PsychoWards]

TrueNAS was initially developed for big enterprise companies and later retrofitted to be also suitable for other groups as well. So, yes the system is more then suitable for business as well, the importance here is more the HW then the OS, to be able to handle the writes/reads for the amount of users. 

 

And HexOS is just building on top of this already rock solid OS and makes it easier to setup and manage and backup. And since you still have TrueNAS underneath, you have the flexibility to do what you want in TrueNAS if you would require some more advanced features not yet available in HexOS. 

 

Also Synology NAS are only working correctly nowadays with Synology drives which are just rebanded drives with a +10% pricetag

[Todd Miller]

14 hours ago, jonathanpublic said:

Hey guys,

I understand that HexOS is targeting homelabs mostly. But I wonder how well it would work for a small enterprise use case.

Is a default installation of HexOS/TrueNAS secure enough to be used in an office with 15-20 employees without having to put in major effort hardening TrueNAS underneath?

For context we're growing out of a 4 bay Synology NAS. I'm debating between buying another Synology NAS with better networking (10gbe networking), or building a custom server and using HexOS/TrueNAS for the OS.

Is there any reason why HexOS would be a bad choice for an OS on a custom built file server for a business?

The reason why HexOS is attractive is because I have a lot of experience with hardware and building my own PC's but I don't want to have to micromanage the software. But it would still be nice to be able to get into the weeds on the TrueNAS layer should the need arise.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

FYI, I'm already a customer. I use HexOS on my home media server. So I know it's a good product. Planning on buying another license for buddy backup when it's available.

Reach out to Eshtek directly because you don't need opinions.  You need uptime guarantees, not opinions.  And you need to establish who is supporting what?  TrueNAS issues may be hard to get support for so in effect, you are support.

[PsychoWards]

Esthek cannot guarantee any uptime, because the server is running locally not in a cloud?

Esthek has already made bug reports in the past to TrueNAS which have subsequently been fixed. 

Also your remark is exactly the same for Synology, but you didn't mention that...