Which boot disk?

[WhiteTiger]

About 4 years ago I had created a NAS with FreeNAS and for the boot disk I had used a USB stick.
Perhaps today a better system can be used, for a small capacity SSD it is at least 120 or even 250GB.
To use only a dozen is all wasted space.
What should be done today?

 

[sretalla]

SSD is recommended.

You can place the system dataset on the boot pool which will put that free space to good use and keep some IO off your pools.

 

[WhiteTiger]

SSD is recommended.

You can place the system dataset on the boot pool which will put that free space to good use and keep some IO off your pools.

Thank your for your answer.

Is everything done during installation or do I have to do something myself?
I'm going to go and read the documentation, but I remember it was a pretty simple thing.
If I mount two SSDs, does mirroring do it immediately upon installation or do I have to activate it later?

 

[sretalla]

Is everything done during installation or do I have to do something myself?

Until you add pools, the system dataset will be on your boot pool (but it automatically moves to your first pool once you have one... so move it back in the GUI under System | Sytem Dataset)

If I mount two SSDs, does mirroring do it immediately upon installation or do I have to activate it later?

If you select two disks during the install, they will be setup as a mirror, nothing more to do.

 

[WhiteTiger]

A last question.
For work disks I leave the pool configuration to be managed by FreeNAS.
But for the two boot SSDs I always let FreeNAS manage the mirroring or is it better to activate mirroring on the motherboard?

 

[Ericloewe]

But for the two boot SSDs I always let FreeNAS manage the mirroring

Yes.

or is it better to activate mirroring on the motherboard?

No. Most likely, it would not even work. If it did, it would still be inferior.

 

[WhiteTiger]

OK, many thanks to everyone