Powering 10 drives: PSU/Cable advice
Hi folks, I'm building a 10 drive config (8 HDDs, 2 SSDs for boot) and looking for PSU & cabling advice. Case: Fractal Design Node 804 MB: Supermicro X11SSL-CF CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V6 Kaby Lake...
View ArticleDiogo
Hi, i´m Diogo from Portugal. I use free nas for several years and now as failed and i did not help a bit.
View ArticleCopying Datasets to New Machine With zfs send/recv
I'm not quite grokking the semantics of copying datasets around using zfs send and recv. Specifically, I think my familiarity with rsync is causing me confusion when thinking about copying datasets....
View ArticleBoot Volume Degraded Need advice please
Hi all, real quick intro, FreeNAS newb, linux beginner at best. Recently moved to a FreeNAS setup at the house for main data storage, and so far its been great. Got a few plugins going even and really...
View ArticleData gone?
Hi all, need some advise (HELP!). After a hardware fail my pool (2 x 2TB drives RAID1) became degraded but data was still available (cifs). Nothing i did changed that. I could not make the pool back to...
View Article(Tutorial) How To Install Plex in a FreeNAS 11.0 Jail
How To Install Plex in a FreeNAS 11.0 Jail: First off, navigate to your FreeNAS WebUI in your browser. Next, click on the "Jails" button on the top bar, and then click on the "Configuration" tab. From...
View ArticleSMB Service will NOT start
I am thinking Version11.1-U4 is a little goofy. I'm running into little corky issues all over the place. For one I can't even start the SMB service. I have even tried to start the service from the...
View ArticleNAS for Video Files - Just a RANT
This is off topic and just weird thing but for some reason it just drives me nuts that people spend a ton of money on huge storage (20TB+), good ZFS protected storage just to save video content. I...
View ArticleWriting speed depends on install location
Hey FreeNas! Yesterday I installed FreeNAS 11 on two thumb drives attached to a server that handles 12 sata disks behind a storage controller configured there as a raid0 array and in FreeNAS itself...
View ArticleeBay/Amazon Question
Near the end of 2017, I purchased an HPE Proliant ML10 Gen9 and some accessories for a FreeNAS box. After I purchased it, I decided to return but apparently HPE has a no return policy, even though...
View ArticleHallo!
Hi everybody, it is more than a couple of years i´m play around with Freenas. What to say...simply the Best! I´m a very happy user, i have build two Supermicro´s hw based Server, one at Home and the...
View ArticleOld Supermicro StorageServer build
I´m building a new Snapshot backup replicator server right now and after some problem with a Supermicro expander backplane (an old BPN-SAS-836EL1 model that doesn´t works with 4TB hdd even if they are...
View ArticleNetwork/Hardware changes causing issues?
So, I recently changed my 2 Wifi router network to a Google OnHub (TP-Link) and a Google Wifi puck using the "mesh". For the many months prior to that, once I had gotten everything set up network wise,...
View ArticleRancherOS Issues (web interface sometimes not coming up, cannot upgrade, etc)
Hi guys, I've been running 11.1.U4 for a while now, after finally transitioning off Coral and back to jails, and then out of Jails and back to Docker (haha). However, I've come into issues with the...
View Article1 of my HDD won't be detected
Hello, I am new to freenas and have a setup based on the older hardware recomendations. Super Micro X9SCM-F Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz 2x Samsung 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC UDIMM M391B1G73QH0-YK0...
View ArticleNFS with user credentials
Hello, I am creating NFS sharing and would like to add user credentials in there. However, it looks like NFSv4 can do but it require kerberos. Searching some material it looks I need to setup...
View ArticleAdobe Lightroom!!!
Does anyone on here have extensive working knowledge of lightroom in conjunction with a NAS of any type? Obviously I will be using FreeNAS, but I am very curious about how I should try and set things...
View ArticleIntel Xeon W? Now we're talking!
Good news for those of us who felt that Xeon Scalable was overpriced overkill: https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-xeon-w-processors-for-professional-workstations-announced/ The Xeon W line is the...
View ArticleUpdating from Nexenta to a new, upgraded FreeNAS build
Hello all, This is my first post to this forum. My history regarding ZFS is from Nexenta and have now been getting inspired to update and move to FreeNAS that I had thought a few years ago already as...
View ArticleSplitting a volume so I can remove a disk
I have one volume I've named 'D' I have two disks in this volume, one 1TB HDD, and one 2TB HDD. My data takes up 1.6TB. I started with the 1TB HDD as that was what I had at the time, then I bought the...
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