i recently got my ZimaBlade and i’m currently under testing of the setup which i would like to build for my personal NAS.
My setup is almost composed by:
2x 4TB WD Red Plus (for storage, backups etc)
2x 500GB 870EVO (for OS, VMs and LXCs)
2x 1TB WD Blue (for additional storage)
To extend sata ports i both this PCIe card from amazon and i connected the 2 SSDs and the two WDBlue HDDs to it with an external 5V power supply. The 2 WDRed instead are directly powered from and connected to the ZimaBlade. Everything is detected correctly and from casaos i can view all the drives connected.
The problem comes when i try to select the drives connected to the pcie card as boot option since they are not detected from bios and even from grub installed on the on-board eMMC. With an external USB drive, instes, i was able to install proxmox on the 2 SSDs in ZFS RAID1 without any problem. Am i missing some configuration in the bios?
Hey I am having similar issue. Is either an issue with the adaptor or the ssd are not compatible.
In my case I am able to select the nvme installed on the adaptor and connected to the PCI’s socket. It also gets installed but when removing the media it gives me a kernel panic.
I have no idea what the problem Isla. Did you get it sorted?
Hi, we have tested booting TrueNAS from a SATA drive which is connected to a PCIe to SATA card, and it works well.
For troubleshooting purposes, please consider the following:
Did you install TrueNAS using UEFI or legacy mode? (We utilized UEFI for our successful setup.)
What was the source of the installation image? (We recommend using official download channels.)
Will other OS’ installation affect TrueNAS’ availability?
We advise attempting a fresh installation of TrueNAS on the SATA drive, ensuring no other systems are present. Your feedback on this approach is greatly appreciated.