I’ve setup the boot-pool to run from a USB-stick and trying to change it to SD-card, since it would be a sleeker design. Only one SSD on my old HP-laptop which is supposed to be used as storage only. Installation doesn’t recognize the SD-Card, but TrueNAS does. Keep getting this message when tryin…

Welcome to TrueNAS and the forums! In someways, SD-Cards are not suitable for use as TrueNAS boot pools. This is because TrueNAS has active boot pools. The result is that a lower quality SD-Card could wear out quickly, like within a year. Further, you mention “HP-laptop”. My HP Probook laptop does…

I have nothing useful to provide but I am curious on what you’re trying to accomplish assuming you get your boot drive issues working.

Trying to solve this captcha, obviously: [image] Memes! TrueNAS, ZFS, and related | (Share your own!) General Discussion [captcha]

There are high endurance SD cards on the market, if you really use SDcards I would use something like this. High-Endurance microSD Karte für professionelle Sicherheitskameras, Dash-Kameras, Body-Kameras - Kingston Technology

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Trying to solve this captcha, obviously:

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Trying to use SD-card as a Boot-device

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