Hello, i'm in the process of finalizing my FreeNAS build that I plan to use for my VMWare lab, I want to make sure I have a well rounded platform that covers my needs and I was wondering if I would benefit from adding a cache drive to my pool. Here is my current build: PowerEdge R710 (2)...

Hello everybody, Background: I just found an old external hard drive of mine with a lots of phots and videos, etc. which I want to copy on my FreeNAS Server. The Server and my PC have a one gigabit ethernet connection and when I transfer movies I use the full bandwidth (120 MB/s) but when I...

I bought a 120GB SSD for a boot drive and hate to waste the 100+GB of empty space! Does freeNAS accept partitioned drives and can I have one partition as a boot and one as a cache drive?

I have a problem with my L2ARC. It seems to have reads capped at ~175MB/s. Why am I bothered? - Well, it's a 2TB Intel SSD - P3520, PCIe based NVMe drive. When testing reads directly from /dev/nvd0, I easily and consistently get aroung 600MB/s # dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/null bs=128k...

Hallo ich möchte in einem FreeNAS Server einen ZIL Cache hinzufügen mit 4 SSD´s, wenn ich das mache und kann ich bei 4 ausgewählten SSD´s nur Mirror auswählen ist das dann sowas wie ein Raid 10? Ich möchte durch den Cash eine Schreibgeschwindigkeit um die 1GB/s (10GBE Netzwerk) bekommen. Ist das...

Hello all, The config scenario I want to build revolves around HP's Microserver Gen8. I plan to buy a second Gen8 since the price is dirt cheap with the basic config, 190 pounds for the lowest config. Now these little cubes support 16Gb of RAM max which is the limiting factor into getting more...

Hello Everyone, I am currently in the process of implementing a new ESXi shared SAN in my home for provisioning and running VM's from. This new SAN will be created on an HP DL360e Gen8 1U server, with 4x 3.5 inch hot swap bays (two SATA 6.0 and two SATA 3.0 Gbps ports). The drives to be used...

Hello Everyone, First off I want to say that I’ve long browsed the online forums for help and ideas on setting up a FreeNAS system and figured it’s now time for me to join in on the discussions and gain some knowledge. I’m fairly new to FreeNAS, but look forward to learning what its full...

Hello, I'm new to FreeNAS and will be setting mine up shortly, as the parts are on the way. I'm starting with 2 3tb WD Red Drives in Raid 1 (or RAIDZ1) for 3TB usable space with 1 disk redundancy. My question is, later on I want to add another set of 3TB Drives and have it be run in RAID 10 or...

Hallo, ich habe eine 60GB SSD übrig und wollte die dem Proliant G8 (G1610t) anbieten. Nach dem lesen der Anleitungen (meist englich) verstehe ich das Prinzip nicht so ganz: Ist es nur möglich einen Cache für EINEN Pool zu defenieren? Nein NAS hat aber 4 Pools (= 4 HDDs). Thomas

I'm putting together a new FreeNAS build. The main hardware issue left is SLOG/L2ARC to get the best chance of good performance/reliability. Hardware - Xeon E5-1620 v3 (4 core, 3.5 GHz+ as I might heavily use CIFS or other single-thread services) 32GB RDIMM 2400 (Amazon have an insanely good...

Hello there Everyone, I'm new to the game and came to this beautiful place by the recommendation of Wendell. After seeing his videos about free nas I thought to build one myself. The Build aka my old PC: Sabertooth z77 16gb Ram 2500k CPU 120GB Evo 840 3x 4TB WD Red bequiet 850W P9 Pro I know...