Hello. I currently boot off of a single USB 2 thumb drive. It takes quite a bit longer with 11.3 than it did with 11.1. And it is getting old, several years now. I gather it will fail soon, especially if the OS runs off the drive and not loaded into RAM, which I saw in the documentation.
I also wanted to mirror the drive and have a second one. I did notice that the documentation discourages this, strongly recommending dual internal SSDs instead.
The motherboard in there has no free SATA ports, so I would need to buy an expansion board. The posts seems to suggest a LSI HBA. I guess I could try to find one.
Is it really so bad to have dual USB2 sticks? I already own them, and I hate to mess with, and possibly screw up, something that is working so well. Esp since I am a novice and questionable if I can fix problems I cause.
Am I reading the posts correctly that if I buy something off the hardware list, it will just work? Or will I need to reinstall the OS and find drivers? Maybe I will need to reinstall the OS to the SSDs? Or do I just transfer the old OS off the USB2 thumb drives?
I do see that I will change BIOS settings to point to the new devices. I think I can do that.
Thanks much, thanks for FreeNAS.
Best,
IMF
I also wanted to mirror the drive and have a second one. I did notice that the documentation discourages this, strongly recommending dual internal SSDs instead.
The motherboard in there has no free SATA ports, so I would need to buy an expansion board. The posts seems to suggest a LSI HBA. I guess I could try to find one.
Is it really so bad to have dual USB2 sticks? I already own them, and I hate to mess with, and possibly screw up, something that is working so well. Esp since I am a novice and questionable if I can fix problems I cause.
Am I reading the posts correctly that if I buy something off the hardware list, it will just work? Or will I need to reinstall the OS and find drivers? Maybe I will need to reinstall the OS to the SSDs? Or do I just transfer the old OS off the USB2 thumb drives?
I do see that I will change BIOS settings to point to the new devices. I think I can do that.
Thanks much, thanks for FreeNAS.
Best,
IMF