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ReadyNAS does not boot internal M.2 SATA drive
I was hoping i could boot from the internal M.2 drive. If doe snot. It recognizes it, but not in the GUI.
You could probably chainload or similar to go from the internal flash to booting off the M.2 drive
thanks for your response, mdgm
That is bit too much for technically for me. More importantly, I think the best use case is still ReadyNAS OS. To implement anything other than ReadyNAS OS, you can use much cheaper hardware. for a couple of hundred dollars, you can get an older used PC, small form factor if you wish, to install either Xpenology or ESXi. For ESXi, there are capable mini PCs as well. I turned my Lenovo P300 into a powerful Xpenology. (with a E3-1241 v3 CPU and cheap RAMs)
I will leave the ReadyNAS as it is. It is fun to explore. Excellent piece of hardware! those glowing LEDs are beautiful.
The 628x outperformed my Xpenology:
Writing: 113 versus 94
Reading: 118 versus 117
Re: the M.2 drive, after booting into the ESXi installation USB drive, the M.2 drive is not in there as a possible target for installation. So the ESXi does not detect the M.2. Does this mean you can not chain load the M.2 at all?
I understand bootable and accessible is not the same thing. BIOS controls whether a drive is bootable. Even if it is not bootable, it should still be accessible. You can still install on the drive, it just won't boot from it.
This is exactly the case with my Lenovo P300. I could install ESXi to the NVME drive, but I could not boot from it.
- Additional info:
ReadyNAS does not boot from the eSATA drive, it boots from the rear USB drives as well.
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