Hey guys, I am totally new to NAS and are trying to built up my own DIY NAS with a HP mini pc. • Motherboard: HP ProDesk 600 G3 DM • CPU: Intel Core i3-7100T CPU 3,4 GHz (4 threads) • RAM: 8 GB • Hard drives: Two Crucial BX500 2.5 SSD 4 TB with a SSD to USB Adapter (BENFEI SATA) • Hard disk co…

Do not use USB adapters for pool drives. [image] Why you should avoid USB attached drives for data pool disks Resources This subject has been coming up quite often since about 2022. Perhaps because of TrueNAS SCALE has brought forth some attention to TrueNAS in general an…

Despite what others have said here - using a USB to SATA adapter for a boot pool is OK as long as its one USB port to one drive and not some form of USB drive concentrator I think the devil here will be in the detail - specifically which adapter are you using. Assuming you have 2 seperate adapters…

[image] NugentS: Despite what others have said here - using a USB to SATA adapter for a boot pool is OK as long as its one USB port to one drive and not some form of USB drive concentrator “The other” here does not disagree about boot devices, but OP is really trying to USB adapters for his s…

Oops - I missed that they were 4TB. Seem like the OP has another hardware issue - he has no boot device

I assume that the mini PC does have a M.2 slot for a boot device… If it has a second M.2 slot and/or a SATA slot for one internal 2.5" drive, the OP might follow @Arwen in setting up a minimal NAS from a mini PC (M.2 + SATA mirror; boot from USB-adapted drive)—but @Arwen herself does not recommend …

Hey @tobloren Others have summarized the challenges quite well already around using USB devices for storage pools. Even if you do replace one (or both) of the questionable USB-to-SATA adapters, those challenges won’t go away. But you could quite easily pick up the same HP ProDesk system in the sli…

Dear @etorix , dear @NugentS , dear @HoneyBadger , Thank you for your kindness and your replies! What a great community you’ve got here <3. I managed to run the second SSD with another USB-Adapter of another company. I am on a tight budget and cheap hardware ist defenitly not the best option. In ad…

Just make sure you have a good backup regime for anything important

Hallo, I Have the same Problem. I have 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB connected over USB and one 1TB internal. One Pool created as a Mirror with 2x 1TB, but if i want to create another Pool with the 2TB as a Stripe VDEV , i become the same Error. ERROR:Topology

You shuldn’t be using USB to connect pool disks that are in an array. Its vaguely OK to use a single disk as a backup pool

Unable to create pool // two SSDs have same sn either da0 or da1 is showing up

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Do not use USB adapters for pool drives.

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Unable to create pool // two SSDs have same sn either da0 or da1 is showing up

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