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[StellarJay]

As an addendum to my previous post as well, speaking to ARM based systems which aren't directly supported by TrueNAS (which is correct), there always exists the possibility of utilizing an ARM to x86 interpreter through something like VMWare or AArch64 to have HexOS deployed in a virtual machine that presents to HexOS as x86 and the interpreter/emulator will do the leg work to convert the commands to run on the ARM hardware (This has only been recently possible with Windows on ARM being viable now). Yes you will be losing some processing speed and efficiency but on many ARM based servers this would likely go unnoticed for the use cases of this type of setup if say a home based business was able to acquire an older enterprise grade ARM server on the cheap.

As I've mentioned above I am known for integrating hardware and software together that was never designed to work with one another and have had numerous successes in doing so. I have a keen interest in hardware repurposing and reducing e-waste while still maintaining modern best practice's as much as possible. This is exactly the reason I got involved with HexOS because it has a ton of potential in providing several uses for repurposed hardware.

PS. I generally ignore "recommended specifications" lists, they are all generally overly conservative in their estimations as to ensure full functionality with headroom. (which I get is necessary for businesses to do so as to avoid pushback if/when something doesn't work).