USB vs SSD adapter vs non standard installation

[etorix]

@FERRARI81

But if I installed truenas on the pool drive and, worst case scenario, the drive failed, wouldn’t it be enough to install truenas from scratch on a new drive and import the configuration?

If you installed on a dedicated boot device, yes.
If you installed on a partition, you’d have to go through extra shenanigans (same as for the initial installation) to restore. So for your own good use a dedicated boot device in production.

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a “Linux distro” and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec’d use cases. TrueNAS is an appliance firmware for storage, which happens to be built on top of FreeB…