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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? Y
by 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 agoI 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 agoFWIW, 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 agoThe 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...