Many years ago (in 2013 maybe) I installed FreeNAS 9.3 on an Asus C60M1-I AMD C-60/ AMD FCH A50M/ DDR3 / SATA3 / Mini ITX Motherboard & CPU Combo with 16 GB RAM and WD Red 2 TB *3 drives in a RAID 5 and running from two, mirrored 16 USB flash drives and have been using it to store photos, videos and other backups without making much change to it since.
I also have it connected to a CyberPower CP1000PFCLCD UPS and configured to power down after 15 min on battery.
I’d like to upgrade it to TrueNAS Core, or even reinstall from scratch since I have backups of everything.
As far as I can tell this meets the minimum hardware requirements of a dual-core x64 CPU, 8 GB RAM and 16 GB boot device
Does anyone anticipate me running into problems installing TrueNAS CORE 13 on this system?
If I have data backups and don’t mind setting it all up again would it be preferred to do a clean install, on a new USB or SSD drive?
Nor with core and Scale, honestly, i would prefer a clean install.
But don’t use USB stick, especially on Scale they die fast: go with a small and cheap SSD instead!
In case of lack of SATA ports (but you should have 6 and only 3 used right?) go with an USB SATA adapter.
Also redundancy on boot pool Is not so necessary, just regulary backup config file manually or with the help of joe’s multi report script (search It in resource section)
Honestly was looking for some detailed spec about this main but i didn’t find anything, because
afaik the only thing to check Is the NIC >> should be an Intel one. Realtek are bad for truenas (for Core, i have ready someone say that with Scale are a bit better, but ).
In case, a cheap I210AT will solve every problem (with a free pciex Port)
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