WD Red Pros vs Blacks
Hey guys, I will be upgrading my FreeNAS soon, and want to know your thoughts. From what I have read, it seems that WD Blacks would do just fine, and this is what I have been leaning towards for...
View ArticleRAIDZ reads are slower than writes
Hi there, I installed freenas a few days ago. My hardware is as follow: - HP Microserver gen 8 - upgraded CPU Intel Xeon E3-1265L V2 - 16 GB of ECC UDIMM - 4 x 4TB seagate NAS HDD ST4000VN000 - Single...
View ArticleLooking for advice/help on idea I have
Right now I basically have 4 NAS drives. I was given a Lenovo TS130 Xeon quad core with 16gb of ECC ram. I have got FreeNAS up and running on it using (4) 2tb hard drives. The on board controller only...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 & CIFS shares - what is the USERNAME for the client?
I am trying to configure my FREENAS 9.2.1.6 to log into the CIFS share securely with Windows 8.1. The FREENAS documentation clearly says: Configuring Local User Access If you would like each user to...
View ArticleBackup & restore options after new VDev
Hello all, My freenas box is 5x2gb hard drives in RAIDz2. My total space is 5.8tb. Today I purchased a 6th drive (2tb). After reading Cyber's noob guide, I understand that I cant add this drive to the...
View ArticleCreating file extents
Hi, HW specs to get them out of the way; 12 bay SuperMicro chassis 12 WD Enterprise 3TB drives 32GB ECC ram E3 1241v3 @3.5Ghz FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 I've managed to create a device extent for use in FC target...
View ArticleIs there any good reason to avoid a used SuperMicro server for my build?
My old Windows Home Server is getting dangerously old at this point and I really need to hop on building something better. As I'm shopping for parts for a FreeNAS build I'm finding that large multi-bay...
View ArticleClone zpool to smaller drives
I have 2x1tb drives in a mirror that only uses 200gb, i want to move this to a 2x320g mirror, but keep the same volume name. I know i would take a snapshot and run replication to get it across. Is...
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HDD Distribution [Raid-Z2 or (JBOD & Mirror)]
Hi, first, let me thank you for your knowledge base (especially thanks to cyberjock) with helpful tips and tutorials to configure FreeNAS. At the moment everything runs (nearly) smoothly. I built my...
View ArticleHow I got a XenHVM kernal and xen-tools working in FreeNAS
This is just a summary of my notes on how I got xen integration with Freenas. There wasn't much I could find on google regarding how to do this so I thought someone else might be interested. I will...
View ArticleProliant ML350 G5
I just purchased one of these for $75 and have a few questions. HP QuickSpecs: http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04284193 I understand the E200i will not work with ZFS. Can i get...
View ArticleLow data rate
Hello! I'm use FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 x32 Gigabit Ethernet D-link DGE-528T Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz RAM 1024 GB ( 2 x 512 ) Data HDD: ST31000340AS ( 1.0 TB ) SATA System HDD: WD400JB (40 GB) IDE When I start...
View Articlecompartilhamento cifs com ldap
Pessoal estou tentando usar o ldap da empresa para autenticar no compartilhamento cifs, porém não estou conseguindo efetuar login no compartilhamento alguém já passou por isso???
View ArticleFiles in CIFS share with identical ACLs - different permissions behaviour
In case it's relevant, I upgraded to FreeNAS-9.2.1.7-RELEASE-x64 (fdbe9a0) a few days after installing FreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 (ddd1e39) on a new server because of bug #5054 (by the way, I found...
View Article/var full when upgrading to 9.2.1.6
I am getting this error when upgrading from V9.2.1.6 to V9.2.1.7. The installation of course fails. I have upgraded many times without problem so this was a surprise I know there are numerous threads...
View ArticleConvert a single-disk stripe on a zpool to a mirror stripe
I have inherited a FreeNAS 8.3.2 system with a single zpool on it. Unfortunately, it seems to be an odd setup. As far as I can tell, it consists of two vdevs, a raidz2 and a single-drive stripe. Below...
View ArticleUser authentication issue
Hi all, I am using winscp for the clients to login to their accounts and they able to change the passwords using putty and they are able to login using their new passwords, but the issue is that when i...
View ArticleMedia server for small video production house
I'll start off with I have never built a freenas but i've looked through a lot of these threads looking for good hardware recommendations etc. Anyway i'll try not to bore you guys and get to the stuff....
View ArticleMultiple drives all failing
Recently I've been transferring about 1.5TB of data to my NAS which is about 40% full. It has 8x 2TB Segate drives that are all 2.5 years old. (just outside of their 2 year warrantee) I have not yet...
View ArticleFreeNas not Showing on Network Through PPTP VPN
Hi, I'm having problems accessing my FreeNas box through PPTP i can access the web GUI but just can't see my CIFS shares, I have the VPN setup on an Asus rt-n68u flashed with dd-wrt. I tried assigning...
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