Upgrading from USB boot to SSD using GUI

[T-rex]

Hi,

I'm currently running Truenas 12.0 U5 on two mirrored 32GB USBs. I'm about to swap the boot device to two mirrored 240GB SSDs.

Most of the reading I have done seems to indicate the best practice is to backup the config, do a fresh install on the SSDs then restore the config.

Any reason why I couldn't just detach one boot device at a time, replace through the GUI then adjust the BIOS boot order? This method is briefly descibed in the manual but doesn't have much information. Will this recognise the larger boot devices or is this method more for replacing like for like in the even one USB fails?

Thanks

 

[JohnDigital]

The way I tackled this was to just install to the new SSDs leaving the USBs intact as a boot device. Once I was satisfied everything was as it should be after config import you simply change to SSD boot permanently and repurpose the USBs.