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 recommendati

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...