I bought a 2 bay NAS and I plan to flash it with the TrueNAS operating system. As I was reading the installation instructions I came across a section that said one of the 2 drives will have to contain the boot/UEFI partition, and can therefore be used for nothing else. Am I reading this correctly? I have 2 4TB HDDs that I plan on using in both bays and I’ll have to use the entirety of one of those bays just to hold a small boot partition and nothing else?
There are also 4 slots available for M.2 NVMe SSDs so I’m looking at using a small SSD for my boot partition there if this is true. My apologies if this is a dumb question as I’m kind of new to this stuff.
Uhm, that Celeron with 8GB is significantly faster than a Rasberry PI 4 for example. It has plenty to power to run basically anything self-hosted you can throw at it.
Also at only 8TB total storage ZFS doesn’t need that much ram. However with only two drives ZFS is very much overkill. I would run btrfs raid 1 on that, with a small bcache write-through on a separate small SSD.
Yeah but running a different OS on that hardware is going to be a headache especially when something inevitably goes wrong with it.
Yes its more powerful than a raspberry pi, that is obvious. I wouldn’t run any critical services on a pi for a multitude of reasons though.