Hexos

[punky_munky]

Has anyone had a look at Hexos yet? I saw the LTT video and the early bird pricing seems quite reasonable so I'm considering dipping a toe.

I currently don't have a good backup system other than using Dropbox and Google Drive for a few important documents but I do have plenty of old PC hardware knocking about.

I've not really got the time or inclination to learn TrueNAS so Hexos seems quite appealing as a low effort solution.

 

[punky_munky]

I decided to ask for a refund in the end as I realised that actually all I need is a decent USB drive for backups.

I had gotten as far as installing the beta, but never got it working as I didn't realise you need two storage disks i.e. you can't create a storage pool with a single disk. This might be obvious to people experienced with NAS but I don't think they make it all that clear up front. It could well be in the documentation somewhere but certainly isn't in the headline system requirements. Given a large part of their audience is supposed to be NAS noobs, they should spell this out.