I am still quite new to FreeNAS - but I think I am doing ok in general. My FreeNAS setup is running since a few weeks - but I have experienced a strange behavior of my boot pool that I don't understand:
I wanted to have one big mirrored data pool of 8 TB for my data, additionaly a "fast" 500 GB SSD to place my VM images.
As boot pool, I decided to buy a small SSD hard drive (first I went with a SanDisk Drive 120GB, nothing special but new from store).
I installed FreeNAS 11.2 U5 on it...
boot pool DEGRADED even after replacement
I wanted to have one big mirrored data pool of 8 TB for my data, additionaly a "fast" 500 GB SSD to place my VM images.
As boot pool, I decided to buy a small SSD hard drive (first I went with a SanDisk Drive 120GB, nothing special but new from store).
I installed FreeNAS 11.2 U5 on it...
boot pool DEGRADED even after replacement