No bootable device after TrueNAS fresh installation

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The suggested boot drive is a SATA SSD or a NVMe SSD.

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Any advice on which ssd and which adaptator for TS-453D?

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What can you work with? Iā€™m not clear about that QNAP internals.
Also, found a video and a written guide; they might help.

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UPDATE:

I desperately check all the four disks in my nas while installing it (1 10TB, 1 500GB & 2 20TB) and it worked on both of the 20TB drivesā€¦ I donā€™t understand why but it worked on these disks. But the problem is still here since i want the 20TB drives to store data and not to be the OS drivesā€¦

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Did all four drives appear (detected) in the BIOS?

Did TrueNASā€™s installation proceed on the 500 GB drive? (Even if it could not later boot.)

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Yes, they all appeared with the right informations in the installation procedure and everything was fine, i didnā€™t see any error but as before, the drives that I tested before (the 10TB and the 500GB) just donā€™t show up in the BIOS

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They appear during TrueNASā€™s installation, when it prompts you to select a drive to install the OS?

ā€¦but theyā€™re not detected in the BIOS?

Now Iā€™m more confused. I feel like thereā€™s an important detail missing here.

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Exactly, they all appear during installation of TrueNAS but not in the BIOS,

Im as confused as you since i already did this before and it worked and I tested the drives separately in windows and they workā€¦

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Can you try something, just for kicks?

  1. Unplug all drives
  2. Plug only the 500 GiB drive into one of the ports previously used by a 20 TiB drive
  3. With only this one drive plugged in, at this particular SATA port, install TrueNAS
  4. See if it boots up properly into TrueNAS
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Ok, another update here, actually I didnā€™t test putting the drive in another slotā€¦ -_-

So the reason why the 2 20TB are detected in the BIOS is that they are in the first (or last i donā€™t know) slots of the NASā€¦ I donā€™t know why it works this way or even why I didnā€™t test before but now it works, I just hope the other drives will be recognized in TrueNAS

So what you are saying makes sense, the 500GB in the port of the detected 20TB is detected.

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Maybe itā€™s some dark magic proprietary nonsense enforced by the QNAP firmware? I have no idea.

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IDK, anyway, thanks everybody for helping me here. Have a good day.