Upgrade from TOS5 to TOS6 and install it on SSD

[deliciousT90]

Hello,

I currently have TOS5 installed on a F4-424 Pro NAS with 3 HDDs in JBOD and 1 SSD just for hyper cache.

I am going to venture out and try TOS6. I've seen that one of the benefits is being able to install TOS on the disk of your choice.

My idea was to install TOS6 on the SSD, but my doubt goes beyond that. The SSD is a 1Tb NV2 NVMe. Could I use a certain part (for example 250gb) to install TOS on it and the rest to be used as hyper cache?

The use of the NAS is for Plex and qBittorrent. I would also like to know if this is a good idea or if it wouldn't add anything.

If so, I would be very grateful if someone could explain how I should do it.

Thanks!

[TMzethar]

SSDs can only be used for one purpose in either TOS5 or TOS6, so unfortunately your idea won't work.

[davet]

Hi

if using the NVMe disk only for TOS is it possible to migrate the existing system from a HDD to the NVMe disk?

Thanks

[TMzethar]

Hi

if using the NVMe disk only for TOS is it possible to migrate the existing system from a HDD to the NVMe disk?

Thanks

In TOS5, when you create a storage pool for M.2 NVMe SSD, it will automatically synchronizes the system partition of HDD to M.2 NVMe SSD.
In TOS6, when you create a storage pool for M.2 NVMe SSD, it will not synchronize the system partition of HDD to M.2 NVMe SSD.

[Gremlin]

Hi

if using the NVMe disk only for TOS is it possible to migrate the existing system from a HDD to the NVMe disk?

Thanks

The point is mute at the moment since there is no way, currently, to new install TOS to a specific disk (without hacking the system as some have claimed to do). Even in TOS6, installation of a new disk will still result in the OS residing on all drives (nvme/ssd/hdd) installed. We will have to wait and see what a proper installation package for TOS6 brings us.