TrueNAS on Tiny PC

[Charlie86]

Hi,

I want to downgrade my TrueNAS system since I do not need so much CPU power (AMD 3900) and I want to reduce my electricity bill.
I have at home laying around old HP EliteDesk 800 G2.
It has 32GB of RAM, but only one SATA port.
Since it has MiniPCIe slot for wireless I am assuming, I can stick MiniPCIe to PCIe adapter to it and LSI 9300 adapter to it.

Will this work? Any other idea how to run FreeNAS on this tiny PC?

 

[Etorix]

One SATA slot? I suppose that's a "Tini Mini Micro"

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How are you going to secure and cool the HBA and drives? And power the drives?

Better forgot this idea…
A NAS is mostly idle. If the CPU idles at low power, reducing the number of spinning drives is the most effective way to reduce power draw.

 

[sretalla]

Reminds me of this...

Can I please have a small footprint TrueNAS?

The NAS marketplace is filled with small appliance NAS devices, often built on an ARM device platform. These small devices, such as 2009's iomega StorCenter IX2-dl (2x 3.5" HDD) and 2019's Synology DS419slim (4x 2.5" HDD) are handfuls of modest...

www.truenas.com

If you want to go small and not engineer a disaster for yourself, follow that advice.