Greetings. I am a newbie getting ready to move from QTS on an old but good QNAP TS-879 PRO that has been hotrodded with an upgrade from an i3 to and i7 processor with 16GB of RAM.
My question is that once I jump through the hoops of getting in and out of the QNAP’s bios to get TrueNAS up and running, are the updates to TrueNAS available for installation without having to go in and out of bios?
Many thanks!
All updates are done via the webui, you don’t need the bios at all
you should just be able to update TrueNAS through the UI as you can on any other system, and then reboot into the new version automatically. the only thing to keep an eye on is how much free space your boot-pool has, as the tiny emmc that these boxes usually have will require you to clean out old boot environments after upgrades.
caveat, I don’t own any QNAP hardware so if there’s something wrong enough with QNAP hardware that I don’t know about that causes boot failures please chime-in.
Thanks to both Lars and Retro!
