FreeNAS - Degraded Boot, can't access share
Just to update... Last night I installed a new copy of FreeNAS 11.2 on to a new flash drive. Set it all back up again, imported my pools and they imported without any issues, the volumes were still intact and in good health. Fairly basic NAS set up so it didn't take me long to set up my pools, user permissions, and plugins (Plex). Everything is working now and I haven't had any connection issues since installing a fresh copy of the OS on a new flash drive.
Not sure if the degraded boot drive was responsible for the connection issues I was facing, or if something else completely unrelated that just happened to fix itself with a fresh install... But regardless the problem is fixed now [hopefully].
On the plus side the upgrade to FreeNAS 11.2 is nice. Night mode
5 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:On the subject of USB boot in FreeNAS: I could never get it to be stable. I mean, I wasn't using the "recommended" flash drives, but even with two in mirror, I'd still have them fail scrubs/go degraded all the time. I ended up getting a 16GB Kingston M.2 SATA SSD (and a PCIe adapter card for power) to boot off of, and haven't had any issues since (almost a year).
I'm out of SATA ports and my motherboard (MSI P55 something) doesn't have any M.2 slots. Only option would be either a PCIe to M.2 or PCIe to sata expansion card... Which I may do in the future when I expand the storage. But for now flash drive will have to do. I'll see how this one goes and if I have any issues with this new flash drive as the boot device I'll definitely look in to alternative options.
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