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Building a PowerNAS G4 MDD
View attachment 5181 Greetings from Egypt, I’ve been a mac user for more than 2 decades now, as an art director, photographer & marketing communications specialist, i’ve worked on several mac...
View ArticleISCSI Dropouts
Hello all, I have strangest situation with iSCSi when used with ESXi. Every now and then we have dropouts which require us to restart the service as all our guest OS's lose their storage and especially...
View ArticleSome Interesting Performance Numbers on a new Freenas Server
OK, so after a bunch of reading and some suggestions from a couple of folks I decided to put my new freenas box through a series of tests using dd. I wanted to answer some questions about performance...
View Article[FreeNAS 9 Plugins] - SAB / SB / CP / HP / Maraschino / HTPC / Mylar / LL /...
SABnzbd / SickBeard / CouchPotato / Headphones / Maraschino / HTPC-Manager / Mylar / XDM / LazyLibrarian NOTES & TODO INSTALLATION & SETUP SOURCE ... [FreeNAS 9 Plugins] - SAB / SB / CP / HP /...
View ArticleHome User Racks?
Hey all you people who run big freenas boxes at home.. Do you run in a server rack? Do you run into cooling concerns? I am looking at getting a 12U open rack.. but if there is another way, i would be...
View ArticleLDAP Server SLAPD does not exist
Attempting to create a real SMB solution box with FreeNAS. Love the RAIDZ, Jails conecpt and core features. Since Directory services only includes Client side, is there a port, Jail, or PBI that will...
View ArticleMultiple SATA Controller Question
So, I recently picked up an Asrock C2550D4I board to replace my aging non ECC board. I've got 6 drives in my zpool which matched the number of ports on my old mobo but this new one has a whopping 12...
View Articlecheck my SuperMicro ZFS build?
Ready for another obligatory "look over my hardware" post? EDIT: per Cyberjock's pointers, RAM and PSU replaced. I've done a bit of research lurking here, but there's nothing like an individual...
View ArticleRSync with rsyncd (no ssh) takes 50% CPU load
Dear FreeNAS Team and users, I guess most of you will wrinkle their nose about my HW, a Thecus N7700+, but I like this HW and don't want to discuss this here. I rather would like to discuss what is...
View ArticleCan't boot anymore?
I've been testing my server. It's been working great so far but it looks like I broke something in the OS. I can no longer boot. I was stressing my drives using @jgreco 's test here:...
View Article[How To] Hard Drive Burn-In Testing
jgreco did a nice system build/test/burn-in guide here, but I (and many others) found the details a bit lacking in the hard drive section. He mentions S.M.A.R.T. tests, but doesn't go over how to run...
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Compact 12 Bay Hot Swap Chasis?
I don't think this exists but I'm going to ask the community anyway. I'm looking for a compact chasis (not rack or tower) that has 12 hot swap bays and can accommodate a mini-ITX board. Something a bit...
View ArticleOn upgrade what happens to extra services installed
I'm looking into using FreeNAS on a new server, but was curious what happens to extra services that are installed (i.e. dhcp server, web services, bit torrent, cloud backup services etc) when upgrading...
View ArticleSAN Storage an SAS Expander und andere allgm. Fragen
Hallo Ihr Lieben. <tl;dr> Ich habe mich nun seit Wochen in das Thema FreeNAS und Co., hier und in den Weiten des Internets eingelesen. Ich habe bisher keine Hardware mit der ich FreeNAS testen...
View ArticleMaking a first build
Ok not going to get a server chassis o I am editing this post so I dont have to make another. This is what I am going with so far. This is for freenas with storage backups maybe torrents and some...
View ArticlePlex Plugin
Hi all, I do have installed the newest Plex plugin, but facing in the music area that Plex isn't recognizing any metadata. I was just checking the folders where all my music files are stored and I can...
View ArticleDoes FreeNAS can be install on Intel NUC
Dear All I would like to know if FreeNAS can be install on Intel NUC. I would like to use this as Plex media server and want to use freenas only not windows. please advise. Also all hardware is...
View ArticleAny supported PCIe fiber channel cards?
Greetings! FreeNAS is running on my Dell R710 and I need to install fiber HBAs. Apparently my emulex LPe11002 cards are not supported by FreeBSD period. I have read the supported hardware list at:...
View ArticleJust a dumb storage calc question
Being the defacto sysadmin for my lab, I should know these things, but I don't. And I should probably spend a couple hours searching the forums, but I'm lazy. And I figure someone here likes to show...
View ArticleFreeNas as a storage for ESXi
I found many posts where people use FreeNas as a shared storage for esxi. I would like to clarify in what cases it is a good idea. In my case, for example, I'm going to get SuperChassis 847E16 for my...
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