New Guy here.
I'm a photographer and was looking for a way to look over my archive images without unplug my external harddrive and pluging another one in.
To make a long story short. I use a older computer to run freeNAS. But cool thing about this computer case is it's a Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 case that can hold up to 19 harddrive. Right now I have 4-10TB harddrive running in it now. 2-10tb drives stripe and other two 10TB mirror, with all data backup on external drives.
The plans is to add drives as I need them. So here are some questions I have.
1. I don't need my freeNAS computer running 24-7. So is it okay to turn it off daily?
2. Do I need to encrypt the drives? If yes, Can I do it with my data on that drive already.
3. And the last question. Can you add a drive to a strip drives without erasing all your data.
Computer hardware:
CPU: I5-4670K
Memory: 32GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP
16 port sata controller card
I'm a photographer and was looking for a way to look over my archive images without unplug my external harddrive and pluging another one in.
To make a long story short. I use a older computer to run freeNAS. But cool thing about this computer case is it's a Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 case that can hold up to 19 harddrive. Right now I have 4-10TB harddrive running in it now. 2-10tb drives stripe and other two 10TB mirror, with all data backup on external drives.
The plans is to add drives as I need them. So here are some questions I have.
1. I don't need my freeNAS computer running 24-7. So is it okay to turn it off daily?
2. Do I need to encrypt the drives? If yes, Can I do it with my data on that drive already.
3. And the last question. Can you add a drive to a strip drives without erasing all your data.
Computer hardware:
CPU: I5-4670K
Memory: 32GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP
16 port sata controller card