I would appreciate suggestions/comments relative to hardware options for booting from SSDs instead of USB flash drives when I upgrade to TrueNAS 12.
My Dell T20 server has only space, power and SATA ports for the four existing WD Red drives. It also appears that a T20’s BIOS does not support booting from a PCIe controller card. So my best option looks to be using a pair of SDDs connected via USB ports as the mirrored boot devices.
One way to achieve this would be to use an external M.2 SSD to USB adapter along with a small M.2 SDD. An alternative approach would be to simply use a small portable external USB SSD.
I would appreciate suggestions/comments on which approach (adapter or portable eternal) might be better along any recommendations on specific hardware that would be a good fit. Also, is there a preference for using an NVMe or SATA M.2 SSD for this application? Feel free to add other ideas/alternatives that you think I should consider.
My wife said I need to keep the cost around 50 to 75 USD for the total solution (a set of two boot devices).
Thanks in advance, Paul
My Dell T20 server has only space, power and SATA ports for the four existing WD Red drives. It also appears that a T20’s BIOS does not support booting from a PCIe controller card. So my best option looks to be using a pair of SDDs connected via USB ports as the mirrored boot devices.
One way to achieve this would be to use an external M.2 SSD to USB adapter along with a small M.2 SDD. An alternative approach would be to simply use a small portable external USB SSD.
I would appreciate suggestions/comments on which approach (adapter or portable eternal) might be better along any recommendations on specific hardware that would be a good fit. Also, is there a preference for using an NVMe or SATA M.2 SSD for this application? Feel free to add other ideas/alternatives that you think I should consider.
My wife said I need to keep the cost around 50 to 75 USD for the total solution (a set of two boot devices).
Thanks in advance, Paul