Stux
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Clear!
And how to mirror: you mirror it with hardware RAID (yes, I know, not for NAS data, only for OS) or BIOS Software RAID or is FreeNAS able during install time to mirror two (small) SSD's and then install?
When you install FreeNAS, just select the two drives and it will set them up as mirror.
If you have already installed FreeNAS, then you can also add a second drive, and tell it to use the drive as a mirror.
(USB specific, but should apply to SSD)
http://blog.brianmoses.net/2016/04/mirroring-the-freenas-usb-boot-device.html
I believe FreeNAS won't automatically expand the boot mirror to fill the full SSD. You can do this after the fact, and it will allow extra upgrades and rollbacks and logs/statistics to be stored on the boot disk, rather than on your pools.... whcih will allow your pool to spin down, if thats what you want.