![]() ![]() The plan: Install FreeNAS 11 on thumb drive and expand my currently filled Synology 4 bay storage system without adding the $300 price tag to buy the Synology enclosure. I ordered a 16gb USB 3.0 SanDisk thumb drive and four 3TB HGST (I read off-brand WD drives?) from Amazon w/ 1 yr warranty for $60 each - not bad. The parts: My job was tossing a Western Digital DX4000 with a power brick, but without disks so months ago I took it home. In the below links under references there are directions to modify an EFI startup file- I have tried this through bash nano, but no luck. This NAS unit is headless (no display output at all, no serial port that I know of). I'm posting here hoping either someone has done this before or has experience directing a UEFI startup. To me this is probably not reliable storage with power outages, etc. I cannot get the WD hardware to boot to the USB drive without holding the recovery button on the back of the NAS. Got on the web interface, created storage volumes/datasets/NFS shares- works flawlessly. TLDR: Installed FreeNAS on USB drive w/ UEFI startup option, put in WD Sentinel DX4000, hold recovery key and it boots to the FreeNAS USB. ![]()
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