I tried HexOS briefly and definitely would not recommend it over regular TrueNAS. It isn’t easier to use and isn’t providing any value in particular. Maybe that will change? For now, no.
I did not stick with TrueNAS. I can’t imagine it would have problems for the use-case you’ve described though.
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