Store now, upgrade later?

[Raevyn]

Hello!

Due to parts availability issues, I am thinking I may have to hold off on building my NAS so then my question is, if I was to acquire some drives and connect them via software raid1 on my linux system, once I can get the hardware I need to build my nas, would that data be at any risk if I move those drives over?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Yes. You would need to reformat the drives with ZFS. That is the only storage option TrueNAS supports. So you need to store the data somewhere else for a while and copy it over.

 

[sretalla]

via software raid1 on my linux system

If that "software RAID1" happens to be OpenZFS 2.0, then maybe no issue to transfer/import the pool into TrueNAS.