infinit0s
Cadet
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2020
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Hello everyone,
Happy to finally join the TrueNAS community :)!
It is my understanding that it is no longer recommended to boot software from a USB drive and preferably an SSD hard drive should be used - this raises a question that I can not get my head around. The OS 'weighs' only a couple of GB yet the smallest SSD available on the market is (at least in Poland where I am) 120GB. It is fairly cheap but since one can not install even jails on the boot partition why the sudden change from USB to SSD - is there any other reason other than 'USB' is not as reliable as SSD? Also are there any works in progress to allow partition resize (in a supported way) so the OS can be installed i.e on a 20GB partition while the rest of the SSD can be used for Jails instead - leaving the regular HDDs for just the storage? In a couple of year's time, even 120GB SSD might be difficult to source and 240 could be the new 'smallest' size - which ultimately means a LOT of the space goes to waste with the current architecture.
Unless I am missing something :)?
Happy to finally join the TrueNAS community :)!
It is my understanding that it is no longer recommended to boot software from a USB drive and preferably an SSD hard drive should be used - this raises a question that I can not get my head around. The OS 'weighs' only a couple of GB yet the smallest SSD available on the market is (at least in Poland where I am) 120GB. It is fairly cheap but since one can not install even jails on the boot partition why the sudden change from USB to SSD - is there any other reason other than 'USB' is not as reliable as SSD? Also are there any works in progress to allow partition resize (in a supported way) so the OS can be installed i.e on a 20GB partition while the rest of the SSD can be used for Jails instead - leaving the regular HDDs for just the storage? In a couple of year's time, even 120GB SSD might be difficult to source and 240 could be the new 'smallest' size - which ultimately means a LOT of the space goes to waste with the current architecture.
Unless I am missing something :)?