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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: lordnacho on January 02, 2013, 01:28:24 pm
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Anyone use it? No clue what I'm doing
I've got a couple new drives, then moved two old ones into it. But now want to move it to a raidz2, not sure if I can do that and starting to panic since I don't have a local backup now.
Thoughts? Thanks
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I used it for a while but moved over to Windows 8 Storage Spaces. Great stuff and plays nice with all my Windows boxes. Freenas was OK though, it worked.
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I've used FreeNAS and OpenFiler and I preferred OpenFiler. I noticed however on both systems that their performance was piss poor so I moved to Nexenta.
It's been a bitching long time but I'm fairly certain you'll have to re-create the zPool, so you would lose all your data. I would backup your data before you try anything either way. A 3TB USB drive isn't too expensive from amazon.
Side Note: FreeNAS's performance is pretty piss poor when it comes to throughput. I went to Nexenta because it's an enterprise class SAN OS and provides my virtual farm (40-60VMs) a stable, fast and robust environment to operate in.
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I used it for a while but moved over to Windows 8 Storage Spaces. Great stuff and plays nice with all my Windows boxes. Freenas was OK though, it worked.
I was thinking about this as well. How does this work with Macs though, my wife uses one.
I've used FreeNAS and OpenFiler and I preferred OpenFiler. I noticed however on both systems that their performance was piss poor so I moved to Nexenta.
It's been a bitching long time but I'm fairly certain you'll have to re-create the zPool, so you would lose all your data. I would backup your data before you try anything either way. A 3TB USB drive isn't too expensive from amazon.
Side Note: FreeNAS's performance is pretty piss poor when it comes to throughput. I went to Nexenta because it's an enterprise class SAN OS and provides my virtual farm (40-60VMs) a stable, fast and robust environment to operate in.
Thanks, FreeNas seemed pretty popular, so dove in without doing much research. I'll take a look at the others you mentioned.
I got worried so ordered a 2TB last night. Can use it as a replacement drive when one of these 4 fails.
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I use FreeNAS, and I like it. I'm only really using it as a backup using rsync for incremental backups from all my PC's.
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I've used both FreeNAS and Openfiler as well and didn't have any issues with performance, but I only have around 4-6 boxes hitting the shares and not 40-60 like kahlid.
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I've used both FreeNAS and Openfiler as well and didn't have any issues with performance, but I only have around 4-6 boxes hitting the shares and not 40-60 like kahlid.
Even using just one computer connecting, you can see the performance hit. There's a bunch of good articles out there about it. For some reason FreeNAS just has big performance issues when it comes to throughput.
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I used it for a while but moved over to Windows 8 Storage Spaces. Great stuff and plays nice with all my Windows boxes. Freenas was OK though, it worked.
I was thinking about this as well. How does this work with Macs though, my wife uses one.
It's a regular SMB Windows share. I don't use Macs but I have to imagine they can mount an SMB share natively. I am sure someone will confirm that for me...