Hi all.
I have a pool with VMs - a single 240GB SSD.
I have another as so it is mirrored and everything has redundancy.
That means no more sata ports available.
I have an old sata card - a 32 bit silicon image for extra (slow) ports but it would freeze the system so useless.
My other ports are nearly full with network cards and the last free one I am looking to use an NVMe adapter for a drive as L2 arc at some point. I am keeping that one free for now.
It is a micro ATX machine.
Due to physical constraints I can only use a micro ATX for my NAS. This means limited erxpansion and sata ports. Even when I upgrade to another cpu/motherboard/memory setup it will still likely be the case.
The boot pool is 2 x16GB usb drives. I have had no issues with them.
I know sata SSDs are recommended but not an option.
The most expedient & inexpensive way to ensure data integrity is to buy 1 or 2 more USB drives, to add to the boot pool.
How exactly is this done? I cannot find the option.
I was looking to add another to the boot pool and the fourth as a spare.
Just to reiterate - using sata as boot drives is not practical and likely will never will be.
I intend to upgrade t truenas at some point but need to get this sorted out first.
Useful info is appreciated.
I have a pool with VMs - a single 240GB SSD.
I have another as so it is mirrored and everything has redundancy.
That means no more sata ports available.
I have an old sata card - a 32 bit silicon image for extra (slow) ports but it would freeze the system so useless.
My other ports are nearly full with network cards and the last free one I am looking to use an NVMe adapter for a drive as L2 arc at some point. I am keeping that one free for now.
It is a micro ATX machine.
Due to physical constraints I can only use a micro ATX for my NAS. This means limited erxpansion and sata ports. Even when I upgrade to another cpu/motherboard/memory setup it will still likely be the case.
The boot pool is 2 x16GB usb drives. I have had no issues with them.
I know sata SSDs are recommended but not an option.
The most expedient & inexpensive way to ensure data integrity is to buy 1 or 2 more USB drives, to add to the boot pool.
How exactly is this done? I cannot find the option.
I was looking to add another to the boot pool and the fourth as a spare.
Just to reiterate - using sata as boot drives is not practical and likely will never will be.
I intend to upgrade t truenas at some point but need to get this sorted out first.
Useful info is appreciated.