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Looking forward to FreeNAS 10 when it is available. Thinking about rebuilding my HP N54L microserver currently running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a 'virtual' N

Looking forward to FreeNAS 10 when it is available. Thinking about rebuilding my HP N54L microserver currently running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a 'virtual' NAS, Ubuntu + ZFS, running under Hyper-V (yes, this is unnecessarily complicated). It would be great if whatever virtualisation is built into FreeNAS supports the AMD Turion II the N54L uses but support for AMD virtualisation sometimes seems a bit spotty (not supported in SmartOS for example).

voltagex_ 11y ago
I found the FreeNAS community to be a bit difficult to work in - less than 32GB of ECC RAM? Using something other than RAIDZ2 with 6+ high performance drives? You're terrible, and you'll lose all your data!
- teslabox 11y ago
  I was put off by this part of the FreeNAS community too. Eventually I found NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS), which seems to work rather well on the "old" dual-core AMD computer that I wanted to use. http://www.nas4free.org/ http://www.nas4free.org/
- barrkel 11y ago
  FWIW, I run 10 4G WD red disks in raidz2 using ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu 14.04 with only 4G of RAM (it's an old motherboard, doesn't support any more). No problems and perfectly acceptable performance for mostly backup and streaming workloads.
- Amezarak 11y ago
  The FreeNAS community is definitely not very friendly and they'll jump on you if you have any problem whatsoever and you didn't follow one of their recommendations, but let's not misquote them. The FreeNAS forum folks say 8GB minimum ECC memory and don't suggest "high performance" drives, merely drives with firmware hypothetically optimized for NAS applications. RAIDZ-2 is recommended on lots of drives for the same reason RAID6 is, so that's not something unique to the FreeNAS community. https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-read-this-first.23069/ https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recomm...
PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Looking forward to FreeNAS 10 when it is available I'd like to know when that will be. The forums on freenas.org don't seem to discuss specifics like that. FreeBSD 10.2 has been out for about 5 months, but FreeNAS 10 doesn't seem close to being released. In another comment I mentioned that I'd like to know what, other than a GUI, FreeNAS adds to the base FreeBSD. It must be extensive since it takes quite a few months. But the whole activity seems quite cryptic.
ossreality 11y ago
Oh dear god, I totally didn't triage a completely fucked and hung HyperV today. And then see disk corruption immediately afterward. That's uh, scary. Why even bother with ZFS when you're running under HyperV? pfft.

voltagex_ 11y ago

I found the FreeNAS community to be a bit difficult to work in - less than 32GB of ECC RAM? Using something other than RAIDZ2 with 6+ high performance drives? You're terrible, and you'll lose all your data!

teslabox 11y ago
I was put off by this part of the FreeNAS community too. Eventually I found NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS), which seems to work rather well on the "old" dual-core AMD computer that I wanted to use. http://www.nas4free.org/ http://www.nas4free.org/
barrkel 11y ago
FWIW, I run 10 4G WD red disks in raidz2 using ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu 14.04 with only 4G of RAM (it's an old motherboard, doesn't support any more). No problems and perfectly acceptable performance for mostly backup and streaming workloads.
Amezarak 11y ago
The FreeNAS community is definitely not very friendly and they'll jump on you if you have any problem whatsoever and you didn't follow one of their recommendations, but let's not misquote them. The FreeNAS forum folks say 8GB minimum ECC memory and don't suggest "high performance" drives, merely drives with firmware hypothetically optimized for NAS applications. RAIDZ-2 is recommended on lots of drives for the same reason RAID6 is, so that's not something unique to the FreeNAS community. https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-read-this-first.23069/ https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recomm...

PhantomGremlin 11y ago

Looking forward to FreeNAS 10 when it is available I'd like to know when that will be. The forums on freenas.org don't seem to discuss specifics like that. FreeBSD 10.2 has been out for about 5 months, but FreeNAS 10 doesn't seem close to being released. In another comment I mentioned that I'd like to know what, other than a GUI, FreeNAS adds to the base FreeBSD. It must be extensive since it takes quite a few months. But the whole activity seems quite cryptic.

ossreality 11y ago

Oh dear god, I totally didn't triage a completely fucked and hung HyperV today. And then see disk corruption immediately afterward. That's uh, scary. Why even bother with ZFS when you're running under HyperV? pfft.