Hi All, I hope this is a straightforward matter to solve :) I run Freenas 9.10 (uprading makes me nervous but i know i need to do it) on a Dell Poweredge T20 intel box with 4 x 4TB internal SATA drives with the Freenas O/S runing on a USB stick. It has worked happily for year and i just have a...

I noticed that one of my drives was listed as "fault" and promptly restarted the system to see if the error would go away. The system came back up and the drive was "unavailable". I assumed it was a faulty drive, but switching the cable it was connected which caused a different drive to appear...

Hi all, I've recently built a machine to be used as a NAS server and bought the Adaptec RAID 71605 Controller to connect additional drives to my machine since my motherboard only has 4 SATA ports. Did I make the wrong choice due to the controller possibly being a RAID controller? I figured I...

Hi, My name it's Antonio, living in chicago, strong DIY person. I've played with FreeNAS and feel I'm ready to make the jump to production, but I'm still newbie on building freeNAS systems and best components. Please forgive me if like any other newbie my ideas are not meeting specs and...

Can someone tell me what controller to get please? I just got burned with a Supermicro controller that didn't support FreeBSD and thus wasn't supported on FreeNAS. It looks like there are a bunch of LSI JBOD controllers that will work, but I am seeing quite a bit of chatter out there about...

We have a 60 Disk Storinator. We're using 30 disks in a pool that is working very slow for us. We are trying to test a new controller card. Can we connect the controller only to 16 unused disks and start FreeNAS? Will the 30 disk pool that was disconnected come right back once we finish...

Hello, first time posting. I just installed 9.3 and wanted to create a zfs pool. I was using a raid card for my previous freenas installation and just spent all night reading threads about flashing IT firmware on it but i'm afraid i bricked it. However i learned the difference between IR and IT...

Hallo Zusammen Habe mir einen Promise S-ATA Controller zugelegt, um meine weiteren Festplatten zum Speichern von Daten anzuschliessen. Der Promise Controller und die 4 verbundenen 4TB Festplatten werden im Bios erkannt und korrekt angezeigt. Im Freenas sind aber die Festplatten anschliessend...