WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.700 If you're anything like me, you are rightfully tired of paying for monthly subscriptions. 00:00:04.700 --> 00:00:08.460 It feels like every day there's something new that's demanding a monthly fee, 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:14.340 whether it's a TV show you like, your car's heated seats, or a piece of software that you need for work. 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:18.580 The corporate meta these days is, you own nothing, you pay forever. 00:00:18.580 --> 00:00:26.860 And you could just lie there and take it, or you can do what we do and use your hyper-nerd powers to push back. 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:30.100 You can load your media into a private Netflix with Plex. 00:00:30.100 --> 00:00:36.860 You can automate your home with Home Assistant. Heck, you can even host your own cloud photo backup with Image. 00:00:36.860 --> 00:00:42.380 The problem is, all of those things require at least some storage and, more critically, 00:00:42.380 --> 00:00:51.420 some know-how when it comes to setup and maintenance. Now I'm sure that most of you are more than capable of figuring it out, and you might even enjoy the process. 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:55.260 But if you're like me, you probably also enjoy relaxing at the end of the day 00:00:55.260 --> 00:00:59.420 without your family complaining that the garage doors won't open and that Plex is buffering. 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:04.940 What if there was a way to take that complexity, wrap it up in a nice little package, 00:01:04.940 --> 00:01:09.980 or interface, if you will, and make it so that anyone could be their home's tech hero? 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:16.300 Okay, maybe not anyone, but the truth is, I have no idea exactly how user-friendly it is, 00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:24.540 because even though I invested $250,000 into the idea that became HexOS over two years ago, 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:29.100 I have literally never tried it, until today. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:33.740 Like, right now. Jake, is it any good? 00:01:33.740 --> 00:01:35.420 I'm not telling you before our sponsor. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.260 The story of why I decided to invest in this is actually kind of funny. 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:54.940 John from their team reached out to let me know, hey, I'm leaving on RAID, 00:01:54.940 --> 00:01:58.380 I'm going to embark on this crazy journey, would you like to be an angel investor? 00:01:58.380 --> 00:02:03.580 And I kind of went, yeah, thank you so much for thinking of me, but I'm out. 00:02:04.380 --> 00:02:11.100 Then the very next weekend, I burned an entire evening fighting with a new Trunez setup, 00:02:11.100 --> 00:02:15.100 and well, one thing led to another, and here it is. 00:02:15.660 --> 00:02:20.380 To answer your earlier question, it's still pretty beta, so there is a lot that's missing, 00:02:20.380 --> 00:02:24.460 but what's available today in the early access version they're launching, 00:02:24.460 --> 00:02:28.700 it's actually pretty promising. Exciting, maybe, but we should probably give everyone 00:02:28.700 --> 00:02:31.580 a quick teal the R before we get into that. Cool. 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:37.740 HexOS, what you're seeing on the screen right now, is an operating system, like, say, Windows, 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:42.540 but purpose built for running your own storage and your own apps on your own hardware, 00:02:42.540 --> 00:02:47.740 whether that's at home or a small business. Now, none of that is special. 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:52.060 Network attached storage or NAS operating systems have been around for longer than I have, 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:57.500 and we have featured similar software, like Trunez and Unrayed, numerous times over the years. 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:03.180 The special sauce is that HexOS is designed to be easy to use, even if you're not a Jake. 00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:09.020 What's that supposed to mean? It means show me how to set it up, nerd. 00:03:09.020 --> 00:03:13.020 Well, you've got your USB right here. Okay. Have at her. All right, got it. 00:03:13.020 --> 00:03:17.260 Yeah, off the floor. Now, we could have used a fancy pre-built server like we usually do, 00:03:17.260 --> 00:03:21.740 but we figured it'd be better to show it off with something from eBay, like this OptiPlex 3050 00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:26.700 we got for 45 bucks. It's got solid quad core bones, but it's missing storage and only had 00:03:26.700 --> 00:03:32.860 a one gig network port. So we picked up a used 256 gig SSD to boot from, an Intel 10 gig network 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:37.980 card, and a pair of four terabyte C8 NAS hard drives, which fit as long as you're willing to 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:41.260 get a little bit creative with the stubby for meltytstore.com. 00:03:41.260 --> 00:03:47.180 That brings our total before accounting for bulk storage to a nice $69. Nice. 00:03:48.380 --> 00:03:55.740 We're going to have links to those parts down in the video description if you want to build something similar. Now we've already updated the BIOS and if you're rehabbing an old machine 00:03:55.740 --> 00:04:01.180 like this, it is a good idea for you to do the same. Install wise, then it's the same as any other OS. 00:04:01.980 --> 00:04:06.860 Plug in a bootable installer USB. You can make one of those with the ISO image and a tool like 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:13.020 Rufus or Etcher. Hold your system setup key, configure to select your USB boot device, restart, 00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:18.620 and you should be good to go. Oh, there is one thing. If you want to run virtual machines or 00:04:18.620 --> 00:04:22.540 apps, you're also going to want to make sure that virtualization is enabled while you're in the system 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:28.060 setup. Once you're in the installer, hit install, select your desired boot storage, administrative 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:33.420 user, enter a password and hit install. When that's done, remove the USB installer and reboot. 00:04:34.140 --> 00:04:38.700 Pretty simple, but it will hopefully get even simpler in the future. How could that be simpler? 00:04:39.420 --> 00:04:43.180 You're actually asking? Yeah, I actually do not know that. Just going to remove steps. Oh, 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:48.300 cool. All right. With the system booted, head to the HexOS Cloud dashboard and as long as your 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:52.060 system and you are on the same network, it should automatically detect it and be ready for setup. 00:04:52.060 --> 00:04:58.460 Hit claim, enter the password you said earlier, and this is it. I finally get to look at HexOS 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:04.060 and since I know you guys are going to ask, yes, a self-hostable app for the dashboard 00:05:04.060 --> 00:05:08.060 will be available in the future. But for now, it's cloud only. Now, you'll probably notice right 00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:13.500 away that everything is pretty guided. It does compatibility checks for you to ensure that your 00:05:13.500 --> 00:05:19.420 hardware is optimal and it makes it easy to see if everything is working. Click on the hard drives. 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:24.140 Let's see. Okay. What do we got there? Oh, yeah. It's got the USB. We don't need that anymore. Oh, 00:05:24.220 --> 00:05:30.940 yeah, we can follow our own instructions. Okay. And here's my storage. Yeah. So it should 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:35.580 automatically set up your drives in the most optimal configuration, which for us, 00:05:35.580 --> 00:05:42.460 you can see with only two four terabyte drives is either a RAID Z1 or a mirror. I think it's a mirror. 00:05:42.460 --> 00:05:47.900 Yep. Okay. So that allows one of our drives to fail without any data loss, which actually does a 00:05:47.900 --> 00:05:53.180 really good job of communicating extremely clearly. Yeah, one drive can fail four terabytes usable. 00:05:53.180 --> 00:05:58.220 It's great. What's cool is it'll even create separate pools for SSDs and hard drives if you 00:05:58.220 --> 00:06:04.140 have both. So you can put performance sensitive data like virtual disks, for example, on your SSDs, 00:06:04.140 --> 00:06:08.860 and then all the rest of it on your cheaper mechanical storage. It is worth noting that 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:14.940 if we had more drives, which we could have if we threw an inexpensive HBA card into our server, 00:06:14.940 --> 00:06:19.740 it would configure it differently according to ZFS best practices. So if we had like five or six 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:24.060 drives, yeah, but six drives would probably do a RAID Z2. So we could lose two without losing any 00:06:24.060 --> 00:06:29.740 data. Fun fact, by the way, if you're not trying to do anything custom, like setting a non-standard 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:35.260 array layout, which by the way will be supported in future releases, all you have to do is click a 00:06:35.260 --> 00:06:42.460 few times. I confirm that these will be deleted. I create a name for the server. Your dad's Dell. 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:49.340 Uh, confirm that you're going to wipe the drives and that's it. You've got your very own network 00:06:49.340 --> 00:06:54.620 attached storage server ready to go. That means owning your data in a way that is not annoying to 00:06:54.620 --> 00:07:03.420 manage. Kind of awesome in theory, but what can it do? Wait, is it done already? Oh wow, that's pretty 00:07:03.420 --> 00:07:11.340 cool. Huh, this is actually surprisingly friendly. All of the features are definitely not there, 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:17.980 but what is there is is polished. So this is the dashboard, right? Hey. You got your processor, 00:07:17.980 --> 00:07:23.740 that's doing stuff. You got your memory. That's also doing stuff. Yeah, very clearly labels, 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:27.100 the speed that your networking is operating at. I didn't notice that. That's cute. Yeah. Which 00:07:27.100 --> 00:07:31.100 one? Is that the one that's working? Yeah. Oh, look at the little graph right there. Nice. Most 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:38.700 importantly, our storage. Okay, cool. So what do we got here? We can expand this. No, we can't. We 00:07:38.700 --> 00:07:43.260 don't have extra drives. Oh, oh, that kind of expansion. Yeah. I thought it meant expand the 00:07:43.260 --> 00:07:51.180 look at it. The view drives, you can do that. Okay, cool. I can view drives. Nice. I think I broke 00:07:51.180 --> 00:08:00.380 it already. Oh, you changed the networking settings. Oh, dude, dude. This is why I'm such a good beta 00:08:00.380 --> 00:08:06.380 tester. Did I click apply? Oh yeah, no, I totally clicked update. Oh, you probably clicked update. 00:08:06.380 --> 00:08:11.340 100%. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's why there was an alias there. Cool. All right. Okay, we're 00:08:11.340 --> 00:08:18.460 back in the dashboard. What were we trying to do? Storage. We're trying to look at the storage. Yeah, I don't know how we ended up there. View drives. Hey, look at that. We got some drives. Let's go. 00:08:20.140 --> 00:08:27.580 Hey, healthy, device ID, temperature. A lot of parts of the dashboard like this have basic 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:32.060 functionality, but there is stuff that's going to be added on later. Like, eventually you'll be able 00:08:32.060 --> 00:08:37.740 to go, hey, run a smart test, which is checking the drive's health or see your old smart test or 00:08:37.740 --> 00:08:45.500 schedule smart tests. But from a basic standpoint anyway, this is working. However, we can't actually 00:08:45.500 --> 00:08:49.900 do anything with it yet. There's another step that we need to go through before we can use 00:08:49.900 --> 00:08:54.460 our storage over the network, and that's creating a folder or share. It does take a couple of extra 00:08:54.460 --> 00:09:06.460 clicks. Okay. Add a folder, line a share, and then managing permissions. This is incredible. 00:09:06.460 --> 00:09:16.300 This is so simple. Yeah, sure. Fine. I'll add a user. And then I go into my folders. Oh, boom, 00:09:16.300 --> 00:09:24.940 brother. Dude. I sent some long emails to John. Oh, yeah. Bless his heart, poor guy. 00:09:25.660 --> 00:09:31.500 Talking about permissions and what a nightmare it is on other NAS operating systems. Just 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:39.180 drilling in. Guys, it's got to be simple. And this, dude, this is the best I could have possibly 00:09:39.180 --> 00:09:45.900 hoped for. Are you telling me you don't want to learn how to do ACLs? No. No, I just, I just want 00:09:45.900 --> 00:09:55.100 to get my Linux ISOs onto my network storage and off. Well, right? The idea here is that you can make 00:09:55.100 --> 00:10:00.220 users for your kids, your roommate, your spouse, whatever, and everyone can have their own private 00:10:00.220 --> 00:10:05.340 place to put files. And you can either have read only access or full access. So I'm going to give 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:11.820 myself full access. I'm just going to make this a public share, which I wouldn't necessarily recommend 00:10:11.820 --> 00:10:19.020 doing, but hey, it's there now. So theoretically, I can just access this share immediately. Here, 00:10:19.020 --> 00:10:26.460 click on this though. Oh, sure. And then go click browse. There you go. I told you how to do it. 00:10:26.460 --> 00:10:31.260 Oh, oh, oh, cute. Yeah. And then you just copy paste and click enter. And you're there. 00:10:33.580 --> 00:10:36.620 I mean, you didn't technically follow the instructions. They told you to map it, but 00:10:37.260 --> 00:10:41.260 you're there. And there's actually, if you click the drop down, it gives you the Mac instructions, 00:10:41.500 --> 00:10:46.780 too. Oh, cute. Yeah. Wasn't that so easy? How long did that take? You could probably have done that 00:10:46.780 --> 00:10:52.780 in like three minutes. Look at that. It's done already. Yeah, do another one. Let's go. It's a 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:57.020 mirror. So we're limited to the speed of one hard drive. But I mean, it just works, right? 00:10:57.020 --> 00:11:01.820 To be clear, there is nothing groundbreaking about having a network share and being able to copy 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:07.260 some flipping files to it. But if you have ever set up TrueNAS, you will know that it takes a few 00:11:07.260 --> 00:11:12.860 more clicks and probably some Google searches. I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, sure. 00:11:14.380 --> 00:11:19.900 But while simplicity sounds great in theory, when it comes to trusting something that holds your 00:11:19.900 --> 00:11:26.060 precious data, you would hope that stability and security would also be priorities. And they are. 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:32.700 And it's kind of the coolest part. See, HexOS is not a ground up project. That would have taken 00:11:32.700 --> 00:11:36.860 even more years to pull off. And frankly, would have been a complete waste of time, 00:11:36.860 --> 00:11:41.980 which is why the team decided to build off of an already respected storage system, TrueNAS. 00:11:42.620 --> 00:11:47.420 For the uninitiated, TrueNAS, formerly known as FreeNAS, has been around in some form or another 00:11:47.420 --> 00:11:53.820 for nearly two decades. And while their business focuses on reliable, performant, open source, 00:11:53.820 --> 00:11:58.460 enterprise grade storage, something that doesn't really need to be home user friendly, 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:04.860 they also love the idea of making it easier to use, which is why HexSystems is the other 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:10.780 main investor in HexOS, which gives them a financial incentive to ensure that HexOS is a success. 00:12:10.780 --> 00:12:16.060 This collaboration is super cool because even though HexOS is built for normies first, 00:12:16.060 --> 00:12:22.460 all of that TrueNAS goodness is still under the hood if you know where to look. And where is that? 00:12:22.460 --> 00:12:28.860 Literally right here. Settings, TrueNAS, done. So if you want to do something HexOS doesn't do, 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:34.300 but TrueNAS does, you can drop into the TrueNAS interface and override it. No questions asked. 00:12:34.300 --> 00:12:39.420 It also means that HexOS works with their existing Docker apps and virtual machine functionality. 00:12:39.420 --> 00:12:43.660 It's pretty cool. Until Beta 2 comes out in a few months, you're only going to see support for 00:12:43.660 --> 00:12:50.060 apps. And as of shooting a few weeks before this video goes live, only Plex and Image are curated 00:12:50.060 --> 00:12:57.340 for HexOS so far. Let's do Plex. And then hit install. Okay. And that's it. That's it. That's 00:12:57.340 --> 00:13:06.380 literally it. No configuring storage paths, assigning resources. Negative. Okay. What if 00:13:06.380 --> 00:13:11.020 my Plex, I want a GPU acceleration or something like that? Have they got that solved? That is not 00:13:11.020 --> 00:13:16.860 there yet. As you can imagine, having only two curated apps, not a huge priority at the moment, 00:13:17.420 --> 00:13:21.420 but in the future, the idea would be, you know, like a drop down or a checkbox. Yes, 00:13:21.420 --> 00:13:26.540 I want to use my GPU. But if you go back to folders now, you'll see that they're exposed. 00:13:26.540 --> 00:13:29.980 So now they're passed through as network shares. And if you click on one of them, 00:13:29.980 --> 00:13:33.820 like say media, go to browse, copy the path, you can just copy movies right over. 00:13:34.460 --> 00:13:40.460 All right. Because of the design for user friendliness, these are public shares by default, 00:13:40.460 --> 00:13:47.260 which I was like, I get it. I hate it, but I get it. HexOS test. 00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:56.140 Oh, do we have any media files? Yeah, easy peasy. Dude, this shouldn't be this exciting. 00:13:56.780 --> 00:14:01.340 This should just be how it's always worked. This is a $69 computer. Yeah, 00:14:02.300 --> 00:14:06.860 just like any random ancient machine. Yeah, just throw this on it and 00:14:08.140 --> 00:14:13.340 nas even just having the permissions so that I can just click the one that says movies. And 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:18.780 and that'll like if you do the intuitive thing, yeah, it'll probably be right. Yeah. And that's 00:14:18.780 --> 00:14:24.940 it. Okay. So we can see everything here. I'm just going to go to other videos. 00:14:26.780 --> 00:14:32.940 Just like that, boys. Hey, nobody can take this content off the platform or take away 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:38.220 your access to it. That compared to the other times I've had to fight with folder permissions 00:14:38.220 --> 00:14:46.860 and true nas with Plex. Wow. Okay. Now image. This one's even more challenging. It's actually kind 00:14:46.860 --> 00:14:52.860 of mind boggling that these guys have been working away on this after like me giving them some funding 00:14:52.860 --> 00:14:57.260 and I have not even like asked for an update. You literally never even looked at it. 00:14:58.300 --> 00:15:02.860 They showed me like a really early couple of like screenshots of what they were kind of thinking 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:07.420 for the vibe of the wizard. Yeah. Your email was basically I will only give you this money if you 00:15:07.420 --> 00:15:13.580 just don't talk to me about it until it's ready. I don't have time for extra projects. No, I agree. 00:15:13.580 --> 00:15:19.900 Okay. Look at that. So that's it. It started. Okay. I mean, we can't do anything about the 00:15:20.460 --> 00:15:24.460 setup process of the apps themselves, but well, you might be able to actually. But 00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:31.100 right now, not a priority. Well, put it on your phone. No way. Just download the app. There's 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:36.220 absolutely no way that that just works. You have image already. Okay. I need to set a server 00:15:36.220 --> 00:15:43.500 and it's just that URL. Oh, perfect. Okay. Allow full access. Oh, oh my God. Are you just gonna 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:49.100 how many photos are on the phone? A few. There's no like the photos we wouldn't want to see in 00:15:49.100 --> 00:15:56.140 the reserve. I should certainly hope not. I just go to backup and then I can select any 00:15:57.180 --> 00:16:02.620 album that I want to back up from your phone, from my phone. And then I go back and I click 00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:09.180 backup and then boom. Hey, look, it's boom. Look at it go. Such a cute photo. Look at the kittens. 00:16:09.180 --> 00:16:12.780 I know. Wow. Look at that. It works. So you've uploaded that whole folder and it's done, 00:16:12.780 --> 00:16:18.540 which is great as long as you're on the same local network. But to truly replace your 00:16:18.540 --> 00:16:23.100 expensive subscription services like Google Photos, you've got to be able to use it when 00:16:23.100 --> 00:16:28.540 you're out and about. That'll be covered. They'll be curating apps that allow you to have a reverse 00:16:28.540 --> 00:16:34.540 proxy setup with like a domain. You could have photos.Linus.com and that would be a relatively 00:16:34.540 --> 00:16:39.580 secure way to do it. And I also pitched John on maybe working with Cloudflare to integrate their 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:44.540 access zero trust setup, which allows you to do that but without port forwarding and you can even 00:16:45.340 --> 00:16:50.140 password protect it with your Google account. Oh, that would be super cool. They're also going to 00:16:50.140 --> 00:16:56.620 have WireGuard VPN integrated soon for easy remote access. And they also also plan to offer a fully 00:16:56.620 --> 00:17:01.900 integrated remote access system by way of an inexpensive subscription, which yes, I know a 00:17:01.900 --> 00:17:07.260 subscription, but doing that for free wouldn't be sustainable. And it's not like you're forced to 00:17:07.260 --> 00:17:12.060 use it. It reminds me of Home Assistant where the subscription is kind of a more of a convenience 00:17:12.060 --> 00:17:17.660 thing. You can 100% have Home Assistant remotely accessible on your own, but it is inconvenient. 00:17:18.620 --> 00:17:23.660 I pay for it. And there's even more. The original reason for integrating WireGuard was actually for 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:31.820 a feature that I have been begging John to create for nine years. Well, buddy backup. This is going 00:17:31.820 --> 00:17:37.820 to be super cool. The idea is that if you and a paid friend both have HexOS, you'll be able to 00:17:37.820 --> 00:17:45.100 easily share storage capacity with each other in a safe, secure manner. That way I could back up 00:17:45.100 --> 00:17:51.740 my stuff to a separate geographic location, say for example, your house and you could back up your 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:56.060 stuff to my house and both of the shares would be encrypted. I'm not giving you ****. What? 00:17:57.020 --> 00:18:01.900 It's encrypted. I can't even access it. I'm not giving you my bytes. Look, the point is that you 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:06.940 can have a mutually beneficial agreement to give each other offsite backup. Did you hear that word? 00:18:06.940 --> 00:18:12.620 You said agreement. What? Jake. Oh, you're being so unhelpful right now. 00:18:15.020 --> 00:18:22.220 The point is that you'd be able to share capacity with each other or just file share with each other 00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:26.860 without having to manually set up a solution for that, which is very doable today. Yeah. 00:18:27.580 --> 00:18:33.020 But a royal pain in the arse. Yeah. The file sharing thing is, I could vibe with that. Man, 00:18:33.020 --> 00:18:36.860 I got to tell you the real reason I want to do this is so that I can just build a giant 00:18:36.860 --> 00:18:42.060 offsite backup target here and then like it'll be an employment perk because as long as I provide 00:18:42.060 --> 00:18:47.980 it for people other than myself, then it's tax free. That means it's free, right? Is it right off? 00:18:47.980 --> 00:18:55.340 Now, here's the pitch. HexOS is an awesome concept with real backing and a passionate team, 00:18:55.340 --> 00:19:00.300 but unlike TrueNess, which it's based on, it is not free. There are real people behind this 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:05.100 project and as much as I'd love to, it's not something that I can personally fund forever. 00:19:05.100 --> 00:19:11.180 So with all of that said, till the end of the day, December 2nd, HexOS's early access is finally 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:17.100 available to try out at the Black Friday only price of $99 for a lifetime license. One payment, 00:19:17.900 --> 00:19:23.020 access for life, including any and all future updates. After the Black Friday sale, they plan 00:19:23.020 --> 00:19:28.540 to increase the lifetime pricing to $199 during early access and then $299 when it goes retail 00:19:28.540 --> 00:19:33.820 with, yes, a cheaper monthly subscription option coming sometime later. To reiterate, 00:19:33.820 --> 00:19:40.460 it is very beta. There will be bugs which you can report on the HexOS forums and you shouldn't use 00:19:40.460 --> 00:19:45.900 it for anything that you need to work flawlessly. Like, it'll probably be fine in terms of data 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:51.260 integrity since it's mostly just an interface for an existing very stable and reliable product, 00:19:51.260 --> 00:19:56.700 but I have to give you guys that warning regardless. It's also not going to be the only NAS software 00:19:56.700 --> 00:20:02.300 that we ever use or mention again. It's a focused product that is meant for the homelab, creator, 00:20:02.300 --> 00:20:07.260 and tech dad market. So while it would work for a small business once it's ready, 00:20:07.260 --> 00:20:13.180 it's not going to replace a dedicated hypervisor like Proxmox for instance. And if you already have 00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:18.460 a true NAS system that's working perfectly fine, it doesn't yet support adopting an existing install, 00:20:18.460 --> 00:20:24.540 so it'll require reinstalling. But hey, if you, like myself, believe in the idea of owning your 00:20:24.540 --> 00:20:30.780 own data and you want great NAS software that is actually user-friendly like I do, and you can 00:20:30.780 --> 00:20:35.820 afford to mess around with it on a spare system, the HexOS folks and myself would love for you to 00:20:35.820 --> 00:20:40.060 try it out and let them know what you think. If you absolutely hate it during the beta, 00:20:40.060 --> 00:20:45.260 you will be able to request a refund within 30 days, and another separate note, if you're a 00:20:45.260 --> 00:20:50.860 TypeScript or Nuxt developer who loves the idea, they're hiring and the info will be in the description. 00:20:51.820 --> 00:21:01.020 Overall, HexOS takes our $69 NAS up to $368. Not as nice, but what I like is that it's an ecosystem 00:21:01.020 --> 00:21:06.540 you're not locked into and that you can upgrade the hardware. If you want, you can get a better 00:21:06.540 --> 00:21:12.380 machine or you can beef up your existing one. And worst case, if you don't like HexOS or if the 00:21:12.380 --> 00:21:17.580 company somehow implodes, you can just disconnect it from the dashboard and you're essentially 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:22.940 running true NAS. I really hope that doesn't happen, but I just wanted to make it clear here 00:21:22.940 --> 00:21:28.620 that there will be options unlike all those users that are running those vulnerable D-Link NASs that 00:21:28.620 --> 00:21:35.980 simply will never be updated to fix it. Brutal. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out 00:21:35.980 --> 00:21:40.940 my last home NAS build? I cannot wait to try this at my house because I have like some super sick 00:21:40.940 --> 00:21:46.780 plans. I am completely out of storage. Dude, me too. I'm like 88% utilized. So many Linux 00:21:46.780 --> 00:21:53.180 hard drives are so expensive. Recertified though. They're still expensive.