New to TrueNAS. I happen to have a spare 1TB SSD lying around, so I thought of using that to start me a NAS, with an eye to adding some NVMEs to it in the near future, when the prices come down. Bought all the stuff, and installed TruNAS, and everything went smoothly. To my surprise, however, now I …

I would suggest acquiring another small SSD to use as a boot disk.

[image] Aqua1ung: will start happening more and more often seeing as it’s getting harder and harder to find drives smaller than 1TB for sale Just my point of view: small SSD (but NVME too) are hard to find new, and often neither cheap compared to “bigger”… But from my experience there are a …

[image] Aqua1ung: it’s getting harder and harder to find drives smaller than 1TB for sale 17 € for 128GB SATA SSD on Amazon . I prefer using internal USB ports and quality USB drives though.

[image] dan: No, but it’s still the way TrueNAS works. Don’t like it? Use a different NAS OS. Point taken, thanks. I am certainly not blaming the devs. for their decision. We’ll just have to learn to live with it, and adapt. Now, where was that partitioning tutorial please? Any links?

Thanks! As far as I can tell, these tutorials reference FreeBSD: are they not obsolete? (Using TrueNAS Scale myself.)

They are perfectly current for CORE. Translate as needed for SCALE… But do yourself a favour: Get a cheap boot device (my favourites are 16 GB Optane M10), use TrueNAS as it’s designed to be used, and make your life easier for less than $10.

Scale process is quite different. It involves modifying the installer script during installation. It is documented in a thread. I don’t have a link handy.

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dan August 5, 2024, 10:51pm 2

No, but it’s still the way TrueNAS works. Don’t like it? Use a different NAS OS.

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