New installation on a Mac Mini (2014 - 8G ram - 1TB HD) no pools available !

[pedser]

New installation by new TrueNAS nob.
Installation was perfect via bootable USB (I chose the TrueNas) installation was completed and I can access via web interface. Changed root password, IP address to static and workgroup to workgroup. The rest is unchanged, but in the storage/ pools I can create a new one ... there are no available disk.
Help..
I did a zpool status and I get this:

How can I fix this ??????
Thanks

 

[Samuel Tai]

The Mac mini 2014 only has 1 disk, and you used it up for your boot pool.

 

[pedser]

The Mac mini 2014 only has 1 disk, and you used it up for your boot pool.

Oh Yes, I see my issue, looks like I have a huge (1TB) boot pool, ... any suggestions during my re-installation ? maybe a 2G boot and the rest for data available. I am really trying to create a simple configuration with a one big drive that I can store files at home and its easily available via windows machines.
Thank you in advance !

 

[Samuel Tai]

Unfortunately, the installer will use the whole disk you select for the boot volume. You'll need to try a different platform.

 

[HoneyBadger]

If you have another USB flash drive or storage device, you can install from one drive to another. USB drives are discouraged due to the widely varying quality, but anecdotally I have run a few systems (9.10 through 11.x) on USB flash drives successfully. Oddly enough, USB3.0 drives seem to be hit-or-miss while older USB 2.0 units are more reliable, trending towards the physically larger drives (I bought a 10pk of 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Glides, each of them is still trucking along quite well)

 

[Constantin]

I assume it's intel since I doubt trueNAS is available for M1 yet. That said, I suggest posting what model you have TrueNAS running on.

A MacMini doesn't accept ECC RAM, so I'm not a fan of that platform for a TrueNAS.

If the MacMini supports Thunderbolt 2 or higher, then you can always consider getting a good HBA, installing it in a Thunderbolt external PCIe enclosure, putting the pool drives into a separate external drive enclosure and running two SFF8808 (or whatever) to SATA splitters / fanout cables into the external enclosure. However, I do not know how "Thunderbolt aware" stuff is in FreeBSDland, even for well-loved HBAs like the LSI.

Do not consider getting an external array with a port multiplier and running the drives in JBOD mode. That approach robs TrueNAS of the ability to interact directly with the drives. You really want a HBA and as direct a connection between TrueNAS and the drive as possible.

 

[pedser]

Great ideas, but I may use a different hardware.
Thank you all for the comments.