Been planning a new freenas build since I had data corruption on my old freenas. I wasn't using ECC and it bite me hard. I have the following parts from my old build: HDDs - candidates for the RAIDZ2 pool: MEdia pool for movies and TV shows 6x WD Green WD20EZRX, 2TB- SATA 6 GB/S 5400rpm HDDs-...

New here but have spent a while lurking around on the forum and reading various pdfs on this. I have the following at my disposal: HDDs - candidates for the RAIDZ2 pool: 2x Hitachi Travelstar 5K750, 500GB - SATA300 5400rpm 1x Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003, 2TB - SATA600 5900rpm 2x WD...

After buying a 24 bay 4u chassis impulsively I though I should probably do some actual research into the rest of the parts I need to setup a decent FreeNAS box. After spending a few hours a night researching this over the last few nights by reading the fantastic guides/info throughout the forums...

Hi, this is my first post, so be nice. I have been planning a minimal freenas build with good data integrity and low power consumption, mostly for AFP, NFS and SMB (plex and owncloud would be nice but not necessary). I have found a supermicro mobo based on intel c2358 with 4 sata, 7W TDP, 4 x...

Hi guys! This is my first post here on the FreeNAS forum. I currently own a Synology DS2413+ 12 bay NAS, that is populated with 12*4TB Seagate NAS drives in a Raid 6 configuration. I currently have no good backup plan for this Synology NAS (just backing up really important data to a off-site...

Hello world! I am building my first FreeNAS and I wanted to get some opinion's on the build as well as have a few questions answered. Below is the build: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ASRock E3C224D2I Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) Registered DDR3-1333...