How to Install TrueNAS on Orico HS500 Pro (Replace Weline OS)
My home storage ran on an Orico MetaBox Pro HS500 Pro for a long time. Five bays, 2.5GbE, an Intel Celeron N5105, and internal M.2 slots. For the footprint it’s in, that’s a well-built machine, and none of the hardware has given me a single problem. The software was a different story. It shipped with Weline OS, which is a locked-down Linux behind a panel that doesn’t do what it says on the tin. After a long enough fight with it, I stopped trying to make it work and moved the whole thing to TrueNAS SCALE Community Edition. This is the actual sequence I used, including the parts that went sideways. ...