I understand all the RAID controller posts vs just HBA passthrough and all but I am asking: Can or should the host of TrueNas be on a striped RAID controller that you setup after BIOS post?
For example:
2 x 512 SSD in RAID 1 for the OS using a PCI RAID controller
4 X 4TB drives plugged into SATA ports and use TrueNas for software raid
Obviously protecting data is key in a NAS but how do you protect the OS from drive failure?
Or just boot TrueNas on a SSD, setup your pools, backup your config and then if your SSD ever dies, just boot a new instance of FreeNas and restore your config file???
Thanks
For example:
2 x 512 SSD in RAID 1 for the OS using a PCI RAID controller
4 X 4TB drives plugged into SATA ports and use TrueNas for software raid
Obviously protecting data is key in a NAS but how do you protect the OS from drive failure?
Or just boot TrueNas on a SSD, setup your pools, backup your config and then if your SSD ever dies, just boot a new instance of FreeNas and restore your config file???
Thanks