Hey thanks! :)
I have almost your same system, with just more memory, more HD, and a seasonic 760W platinum psu, and I have <40W with all jails down.
That CPU doesn't support ECC, as is explicitly mentioned in the Hardware Recommendations Guide, in the Resources section.
You cannot.
Thanks for the info.
Oh, that's right I did not notice it on http://ark.intel.com thanks for pointing it out.
FreeNAS has supported USB on Skylake motherboards since early 2016... In fact, post #54 asked the same thing.
No, nobody said that. The CPU has approximately nothing to do with the USB controllers.
It's not a matter of opinion. USB flash drives have proven themselves to be unbelievably slow incredibly unreliable, in practice. A small SSD is much better in every way and generally adds minimal cost.
You only need one SSD as a boot device, if you are thinking about a mirror. SSD's are significantly more reliable and all you really need to do is retain a copy of your configuration data, something you should do regardless of your setup. But that is up to you.
No, it doesn't. I'm not sure exactly what you desire but most users will place thier jails on the main pool where the data is safe. Using a single SSD is not safe in my opinion. Should it fail or become corrupt then your jail data is gone. If you place it on the mail pool then you can have a drive failure (assuming a RAIDZ2) and all your jail data is still there. My advice is to place your jails on the main pool. This is a bit off topic for this thread so if you would like to discuss this further, please create a new thread or start a Conversation with me. I'm more than willing to give you sound advice but I'd really need to know exactly what you expect to do with your system as that makes a difference in how you should setup your hardware. Additionally, Plex does not need a fast SSD to operate. Now if you were planning to run say Ubuntu VMs then depending on your pool structure, you may want a SSD for that, but a well designed pool will be faster than a single SSD. So my advice is a single cheap SSD 30GB or larger as your boot device and what ever is on sale. If you find a 120GB SSD for $30, I'd pick it up. Don't think that the extra space is going to waste, it isn't. Think of it as extra blocks to use against the wear level (an automatic thing), not that FreeNAS would hammer the SSD like that and wear it out prematurely. Sorry for the long answer, I get like this at times.
After my own experiences with booting from USB (mirrorred or not). And al the boot misery that I have read in a great number of threads on the forum I wonder why one would still bother with promoting USB sticks as boot medium at all. The time that a half decent SSD was at a premium price is way beyond us.
