That's true. I've been using this for more than 6 months with metallic body USB drive. Good so far, but after an year of use, failure rates of USB stick might get compounded. Though this is a minimalist setup, upgrading to a small ssd or m2 will improve durability of boot drive.
The problem is that the entire SSD is used for the system, instead of just a minimal partition of max. 256 GB or so. I would want to use a 1 TB Nvme also as a pool next to the boot partition, but you can not specify that during installation. Also it brings nothing to partition the SSD before suitably, because the installation program deletes again all partitions. An installation on a partition is unfortunately not possible. Such a professional system, but the developers can't manage that. Very sad.
Additional drives can be added. But for home, a 1-2 TB internal HDD and another M.2 with this thin client would be sufficient. A similar setup using i7 PC with 3 HDDs and 1 SD is working fine too.
Off topic but I want to make a comment about my Optiplex 3070 SFF with Core i3-9100, 16GB DDR4, factory 256GB NVME + 1TB HDD I have added. I wanted to play with TrueNAS Scale, but for whatever reason, system boots extremely slow as in like 20+ minutes to boot. All seems to be fine once it is booted but it is slow. Also, after the initial installation, when it is asking to reboot and remove installation media, that process is very slow as well. I have tested TrueNAS on Optiple 3050 Tiny with same installation USB and everything work perfectly, boots up extremely fast, maybe around a minute or so. Even after initial installation reboot is near instant too. So I did end up trying to install TrueNAS Core on Optiplex 3070, and it seems to work as it should, very fast at initial reboot from installation and every boot up is very very fast. Very frustrating....
Can you suggest how to use raid by some how adding multiple hard disks to this mini pc???
what mini pc can install 2 x 2.5 SSD and 1 m.2 ssd ?
You should create another video showing the installation of Synology Nas on this mini pc. Without the music of course.
Useful video! Followed it in real time to set up a test box
Great video. Direct and to the point. Thanks!
great video.. clear voice... lovely crisp video.. would appreciate a raid setup video
They don't recommend to install it on a USB stick anymore because of the fail rate of USB sticks.
That's true. I've been using this for more than 6 months with metallic body USB drive. Good so far, but after an year of use, failure rates of USB stick might get compounded. Though this is a minimalist setup, upgrading to a small ssd or m2 will improve durability of boot drive.
The problem is that the entire SSD is used for the system, instead of just a minimal partition of max. 256 GB or so. I would want to use a 1 TB Nvme also as a pool next to the boot partition, but you can not specify that during installation. Also it brings nothing to partition the SSD before suitably, because the installation program deletes again all partitions. An installation on a partition is unfortunately not possible.
Such a professional system, but the developers can't manage that. Very sad.
Hello i have a dell optiplex 3050 can i use m.2 hdd to change with usb . And nexc question on the normal hdd i need to have windows?
why can't I use the the SSD as my TrueNas OS?
What do you do for storage? You are limited to the one internal HDD, right?
Additional drives can be added. But for home, a 1-2 TB internal HDD and another M.2 with this thin client would be sufficient. A similar setup using i7 PC with 3 HDDs and 1 SD is working fine too.
@@supremehaven you could've done it without the stupid music.
Can a wifi adapter be used? I don't have ethernet cable:(
Nope. Find an ethernet cable 😃
can you use this as a pfsense router ?
Need a 2nd NIC
Off topic but I want to make a comment about my Optiplex 3070 SFF with Core i3-9100, 16GB DDR4, factory 256GB NVME + 1TB HDD I have added.
I wanted to play with TrueNAS Scale, but for whatever reason, system boots extremely slow as in like 20+ minutes to boot. All seems to be fine once it is booted but it is slow. Also, after the initial installation, when it is asking to reboot and remove installation media, that process is very slow as well.
I have tested TrueNAS on Optiple 3050 Tiny with same installation USB and everything work perfectly, boots up extremely fast, maybe around a minute or so. Even after initial installation reboot is near instant too.
So I did end up trying to install TrueNAS Core on Optiplex 3070, and it seems to work as it should, very fast at initial reboot from installation and every boot up is very very fast.
Very frustrating....
Only if there was no crappy music
Excellent video - clear and brief! Thank you. Can you map pcs in the home without having to type \\…………
…”You need a Windows computer to run Balena Etcher”
NO…. Balena runs on
Windows
macOS
Linux
Sounds like a scam 😬
Hell no! Why you felt so?