Hi all,
I'm considering getting a HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Performance to run TrueNAS. It's a good compromise in cost, size and noise for my small business. There's just one thing I'm not quite sure about: it has 4 drive bays, a PCIe slot, an internal USB2 and some external USB3. What should I boot TrueNAS from?
Ideally I'd like to use the LFF drive bays for storage spinners only, and the PCIe slot for a 10G SFP NIC. That leaves me with the internal USB2 header … I'm reading some conflicting information on whether it would be OK to boot TrueNAS from a USB stick. Some say it's all loaded into RAM anyway, others say it's don't, and that USB sticks are too unreliable.
Another option could be the Qnap QM2 card with combined 10GbE and 2x NVMe, but for some idiotic reason it's PCIe x4 only. Feels like a stupid limitation.
Then there's this thing … Hideously expensive though.
Thoughts?
I'm considering getting a HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Performance to run TrueNAS. It's a good compromise in cost, size and noise for my small business. There's just one thing I'm not quite sure about: it has 4 drive bays, a PCIe slot, an internal USB2 and some external USB3. What should I boot TrueNAS from?
Ideally I'd like to use the LFF drive bays for storage spinners only, and the PCIe slot for a 10G SFP NIC. That leaves me with the internal USB2 header … I'm reading some conflicting information on whether it would be OK to boot TrueNAS from a USB stick. Some say it's all loaded into RAM anyway, others say it's don't, and that USB sticks are too unreliable.
Another option could be the Qnap QM2 card with combined 10GbE and 2x NVMe, but for some idiotic reason it's PCIe x4 only. Feels like a stupid limitation.
Then there's this thing … Hideously expensive though.
Thoughts?