Second SSD not recognized in pfSense
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Have 2 identical 64GB SSD in the box. Both are recognized in BIOS. I only see one in pfSense. Does pfSense support more than 1 SSD?
Currently on latest....2.6.0-RELEASE
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@lmannyr said in Second SSD not recognized in pfSense:
Does pfSense support more than 1 SSD?
Depending the version used, I could propose you to use ZFS and do raid 0 or raid 1 on them.
Or, install pfSense to the first drive, and then modify /etc/fstab yourself to mount the other drive at boot time. pfSense will, by default, only mount drive/partitions it needs to boot. The rest is up to you.
For example, when you slide in a USB drive key, it won't get auto mounted neither. -
@gertjan Will using ZFS, RAID 0 or 1 help pfSense performance?
I the extra drive is added via fstab, will pfSense use it? Which will pfSense benefit from more out of all the above options?
Thank you.
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pfSense is not a file server or comparable.
In the past, pfSense could run from read only memory, only /tmp, /conf and /var subdirectories were created and mounted as RAM drives.I tend to say it like this : pfSense isn't a disk based system. It neads a disk to start from, and store config files, and yes, it stores log files etc, but that's it.
No mail/web/sql/file server !
You use SSDs, so maybe you will gain 'something' when using raid0, but pfSense doesn't store received Ethernet packets on a disk, they are forwarded to their destination, and done.
Raid1 is another story : a SSD dies, your system stays up, and warns you.I using XFS right now, as I'm using 22.05, but never dealt with raid on a pfSense.
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How do I set it up for Raid1. I’ll take the redundancy. Thanks for the info.
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@lmannyr RAID would be done in a BIOS configuration for a RAID controller, There is GEOM for UFS but you can do ZFS mirroring -- all of these things require reinstallation of pfSense. You will need to back up your config before proceeding.
ZFS install: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-zfs.html
