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ASUSTOR looks interesting but none of their desktop units appear have PCIe expansion slots so you can't put a SFP28 card in there. It might be possible via expe
by sschueller 1y ago
ASUSTOR looks interesting but none of their desktop units appear have PCIe expansion slots so you can't put a SFP28 card in there. It might be possible via expensive USB4 adapter.
- bayindirh 1y agoI misremembered that Gen3 hardware had a spare PCIe slot, my bad. You can either forego NVMe slots (which looks like an add-on card on [0]) and get the slot, or use one of the USB4 interfaces. OTOH, it has 2x10GbE on board, you can just media-convert it. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWgc8W-hIWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWgc8W-hIWM
- greggsy 1y agoThat seems like a lot of effort - is there no ability to boot a custom thumb drive that loads something like an SSH terminal, or dummy display for VNC?
- bayindirh 1y agoThe problem is not getting TrueNAS on a disk. You can do it externally, but you need to disable the on board flash storage and change the boot order from the BIOS. That box is "just" an I/O optimized PC which can boot without a GPU. Older hardware with Intel processors have an iGPU on board. You can use the HDMI output on these directly.