HexOS sounds insanely cool for de-googling myself, i'm interigued

[y0ur5h4d0w]

hi all!

 

i've seen linus video about HexOS and i'm thinking about parting from the google suite payment of 2€ per month, even though some months i pay them with google rewards i still am intrigued to actually learn something really cool, HexOS seems actually very interesting and even though at the time of the video shooting had no way to upload from out of LAN i wouldn't mind having it sync my data when i'm at home since it would still be amazing.

 

in a nutshell, my idea is simply building my personal google drive and google photo, but still be able to have much more in case i want to tinker, i've seen the minimum specs and i can install it no problem, now i need to understand if it's worth the cash, even though it seems REALLY WORTH considering the ease of config at least from the linus video.

 

the main issue is that i'm really new into NAS and such but i'm actually really interested in how it works and in learning more because i think it's a great knowledge base to have actually. 

 

can someone give me some resources i can study (videos for my learning point is what i can understand better, i love videos over text on screen tbh). 

if a full guide with explanation exists please let me know! i'm not looking for a simple tutorial like "do this", "then to that", "....and you're done!" because it woudln't add much knowledge about what i'm doing.

 

if such a guide doesn't exist it would be super cool to build one together

 

 

HexOS is what caught my eyes, from the video it looks REALLY COOL and i'm sure it can work perfectly and it might be even more worth to pay the 200$ considering 100gb of storage from google costs an """""infinite""""" amount of cash because if you stop to pay you a short span of time to download everything before you can't access YOUR DATA untill you pay again (if i remember correctly it should work something like this)

 

i'm open to learn more about HexOS and even similiar NAS types as long as they are simple to setup and configure becuase sadly i don't have that much time  

[Kilrah]

My point is that if you "use arch btw" then either setting up bare TrueNAS or setting up some storage, installing Docker and spinning up a couple of containers for something like Nextcloud on a generic distro should be straightforward for you, no point paying $200 for something that would at most speed up a 20min job.

 

[thevictor390]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

My point is that if you "use arch btw" then either setting up bare TrueNAS or setting up some storage, installing Docker and spinning up a couple of containers for something like Nextcloud on a generic distro should be straightforward for you, no point paying $200 for something that would at most speed up a 20min job.

 

Maybe that was true once upon a time but Arch is not difficult to install anymore. I threw it on my laptop for fun and the only hard part is answering a few questions in the install wizard.

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, thevictor390 said:

Maybe that was true once upon a time but Arch is not difficult to install anymore. I threw it on my laptop for fun and the only hard part is answering a few questions in the install wizard.

Setting up TrueNAS Scale ain't hard either.

 

OP, put the $ towards something like backblaze that will provide off-site backups. TrueNAS can pull the file serving and local redundancy (RAIDZ arrays with either mirrored or parity drives) duties, but it isn't a backup.

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 hours ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

 

 

HexOS is what caught my eyes, from the video it looks REALLY COOL and i'm sure it can work perfectly and it might be even more worth to pay the 200$ considering 100gb of storage from google costs an """""infinite""""" amount of cash because if you stop to pay you a short span of time to download everything before you can't access YOUR DATA untill you pay again (if i remember correctly it should work something like this)

 

Just saying, making a NAS isn't a one time payment either. Drives and hardware have a limited lifespace, and you also need to update and replace parts as needed. Any solution will need money and time to make sure your data stays safe.

[LIGISTX]

14 hours ago, Kilrah said:

My point is that if you "use arch btw" then either setting up bare TrueNAS or setting up some storage, installing Docker and spinning up a couple of containers for something like Nextcloud on a generic distro should be straightforward for you, no point paying $200 for something that would at most speed up a 20min job.

 

This... If you can run Arch, you can run truenas. And truenas is free........

 

Yes HexOS is "easier", but again, if you know your way around Linux, Truenas is rather trivial. I would have bought HexOS if it provided me value, but it doesn't, so I continue to run Truenas Scale on my home server, under proxmox, next to a bunch of other VM's. I mostly run Ubuntu Server VM's and Truenas is less effort than Ubuntu imo.