Migrate Boot drive from USB disk to NVME

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I’ve been booting a Aoostar R7 off a 256GB USB m.2 NVME drive. I have mirrored 12TB hard drives and mirrored NVMEs (2TB) so the USB drive was my only option for booting until now.

I’ve just replaced the m.2 wifi card with a 64GB m.2 nvme drive (using an adapter). I can see the drive and what I would like to do is move the boot drive from the USB to the m.2.

Couple of questions:

  1. how do I set up the new NVME drive? migrate files, assume I need to use the BIOS to designate the new drive as boot, etc
  2. Should I run it as a mirror - if so, what to mirror with (USB NVME or SD card)? or should I just backup the drive to another device (USB or SD Card).

I could probably just wade in and hack my way through this but hoping I could get some good input that will make this easier.

Thanks!

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Easiest method, really:

  • export and save configuration
  • remove USB boot drive
  • reinstall to your new drive
  • import saved configuration
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Any thoughts on the second question (mirror or back up / which media)?

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If you can quickly handle a reinstall and importing your ‘recently saved configuration’. you don’t need to mirror.
Boot drive dies? Replace with new boot drive, install TrueNAS, import saved configuration. It’s quick because the boot is kept separate from the data pools, etc.

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