Hola,
We have a 60 bay Supermicro chassis in production running TrueNAS SCALE with mirrored boot drives since it is a mission critical array. The performance is good and we generally don’t have any issues upgrading SCALE versions.
We want to replace another old storage array, currently Dell R515 running Windows Server with potentially a TrueNAS Mini-R for our distribution flows. However, I noticed that the Mini builds only come with a single boot drive, which is not ideal for production systems.
We’ve also had some finnicky behavior in SCALE upgrading Dragonfish to Electric Eel on our Supermicro, specifically a kernel taint that might be related to mirrored boot drives. We’re looking at a small replica test system to test OS upgrades before deploying to production.
More here – Strange Behavior Upgrading Dragonfish 24.04.2.5 to ElectricEel 24.10.2 - #3 by PK1048
Are the SATADOMs suitable for production systems? The lack of redundancy is concerning. On the Mini builds, can the OS be installed on two of the available bays instead? I’m assuming yet, but am currently spec’ing out a comparable or better Supermicro build against the Mini-R.
Lastly, has anyone had an experience repurposing an old Dell R515 and installing TrueNAS SCALE on it? The resources should be sufficient, but can confirm.
Thanks!